On Wednesday, the Galveston County Office of Emergency Management hosted a training exercise in order for evacuation workers and volunteers to learn about the Texas Special Needs Evacuation Tracking System or TxSNETS. This system employs a combination of RFID, GPS and bar-code technology, and was designed to simplify and automate the evacuation process of elderly, sick, disabled or able-bodied individuals who have no access to transportation during an emergency. This system allows County officials to track buses, evacuees and their pets as they travel from Galveston County to the point-to-point shelters in Austin.

Approximately fifty attendees learned how to apply wristbands, utilize barcode scanners and register evacuees.  This training exercise allows those who will be assisting at the County's two embarkation centers (The Doyle Center and The Island Community Center) to become familiar with the process for registering evacuees prior to evacuating them from the County in the event a mandatory evacuation is issued for Galveston County.

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