An interview after the Washington County, Illinois tornado

Alannah in front of a REAL fire truck in Peoria, Illinois

Below are pictures of the farm destroyed by a tornado we were tracking in Washington County, Illinois.

Training Tazewell County, Illinois Firefighter Jared Cook

Eddy and Alannah present in Central Iowa

Filmmaker James Buffin arrived in Washington, Illinois to travel with the team.

Ethan teaches severe weather safety

All set up for first day of the tour

Elmwood, Illinois

UPDATE: After a long night in Washington, Peoria and South Pekin Illinois, we now have some of our team in Elmwood, Illinois assisting in disaster recovery as of 1 Am, Sunday June 6. We will attempt to post updates here as we can.

The Summer Tour has begun with three members of the team embarking on a 62 day educational tour today as well!

BIG NEWS

Over the course of the last several weeks, we have been working on some pretty big things here at Chasing4Life. As the team members have changed some, Chasing4Life has narrowed its focus more than ever and we are looking at a year of more powerful educational events than our fans and followers have ever seen before. In a partnership with Fedhealth, Chasing4Life is now a part of a fantastic program featuring the "It's A Disaster" books (see previous blog entry). Chasing4Life members will be presenting special programs with this partnership across the country and will be assisting communities in acquiring these comprehensive books for entire populations. We are working with more EMA's, chambers, libraries, health departments, churches and non-profits than ever before!

In a partnership with several Girl Scout Councils, Eddy and Alannah will be touring the United States beginning in September of 2010 for 12 months presenting new programs on animals in disaster, severe weather science, severe weather safety, earthquakes, disaster preparedness and more as Girl Scouts are now being given the opportunity to actually earn a CHASING4LIFE merit badge! This is huge for us and we want to thank Courtney in Vernon Hills, Illinois for her efforts in making all this possible! Watch our online calendar for Girl Scout dates and make sure if your GS Council has not booked yet, that they do it soon! Dates have filled into mid 2011 pretty quick!

Chasing4Life will now be offering special programs and training presentation/workshops featuring depiction, a mapping software for planning disaster mitigation and response. Check back for more details.

It's A Disaster!

Make sure you pick up your personal copy of "It's A Disaster...And What Are YOU Gonna Do About IT?" from our online store or grab a copy from us while we are on tour this summer. If you represent a community organization, church, fire department or emergency management agency, email us about how you can place a copy of this fantastic book into the hands of EVERYONE in your community!
See video below.

BIG NEWS

Next week is big news week. Right here in our blog you'll find out how to see a piece of the movie "Chasing With Heart" from Veritus Pictures featuring your Chasing4Life Team and you can find out about the brand new 24 month National Tour that starts in September of THIS YEAR! That's right, a brand new tour begins soon as Chasing4Life has partnered with a national organization to bring new programs and new new educational adventure opportunities to literally tens of thousands across the United States!
A whole new Chasing4Life emerges NEXT WEEK!
In the meantime, we're in Central Illinois presenting our new program : "Forecasting And Spotter Safety In A Changing Climate" to fire departments.
See you all next week with the big news!