{"id":8090,"date":"2025-09-11T09:01:38","date_gmt":"2025-09-11T14:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/?p=8090"},"modified":"2025-09-11T13:18:01","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T18:18:01","slug":"true-north-emergency-management-history-steeped-helping-communities-recover-from-disasters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/2025\/09\/11\/true-north-emergency-management-history-steeped-helping-communities-recover-from-disasters\/","title":{"rendered":"True North Emergency Management History Steeped In Helping Communities Recover From Disasters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>True North Emergency Management, a Neel-Schaffer company, recently celebrated its 15<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary, but our story began long before our incorporation.<\/p>\n<p>For nearly 25 years, True North and Neel-Schaffer have supported communities across the nation in recovering from disasters of every scale. It began in 2001, with tornado recovery in Columbus, MS, led by now Neel-Schaffer CEO and President Joey Hudnall. Continuing with Hurricanes Frances and Jeanne in Florida (2004), to Hurricane Katrina on the Gulf Coast (2005), the Great Flood of Cedar Rapids, IA (2008), and Hurricane Ike in Texas (2008), Neel-Schaffer assisted dozens of communities with debris monitoring, engineering, and navigating FEMA reimbursement.<\/p>\n\n\t\t<style type=\"text\/css\">\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 14%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-8090 gallery-columns-7 gallery-size-full'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/7b.-2024-Hurricane-Milton-Sebastian-ROW2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Right-of-Way cleanup following Hurricane Milton in Sebastian, FL.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/6b.-2024-Hurricane-Milton-Sebastian-ROW-22-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"A True North monitor is on the scene as debris is picked up following Hurricane Milton in Sebastian, FL.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/5b.-2024-Helene-TDOT-NS-Supervisor-Visitng-Tower2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"A Neel-Schaffer supervisor visits the monitoring tower during Hurricane Helene recovery in Tennessee.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/4b.-2024-Helene-TDOT-NS-Monitor-Issuing-Truck-Driver-a-Ticket2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"Quick and accurate ticketing of loads is imperative during debris monitoring. This was in Tennessee, working with TDOT, cleaning up after Hurricane Helene.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3b.-2024-Helene-TDOT-NS-Monitor-Watching-Truck-Unload2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"A True North monitor watches as a truck is unloaded during cleanup from Hurricane Helene for TDOT.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/2b.-2024-Helene-TDOT-NS-DMS-Monitor-Taking-Ticket-22-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"A True North monitor takes a ticket during Hurricane Helene recovery efforts in Tennessee.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1386\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/1b.-2024-Helene-TDOT-NS-Monitor-Watching-Truck2-scaled.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"True North and Neel-Schaffer worked with the Tennessee Department of Transportation, monitoring debris removal following Hurricane Helene.\" \/>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl><br style=\"clear: both\" \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>Since the official founding of True North in 2010, we\u2019ve supported response and recovery for hurricanes, floods, wildfires, tornadoes, ice storms, and oil spills, including historical events such as Hurricanes Sandy (2012), Matthew (2016), Irma (2017), Harvey (2017), Michael (2019), Ian (2022), and Helene (2024), major wildfires in Colorado and California, and the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (2005).<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, we completed our largest simultaneous deployment to date, responding to Hurricanes Beryl, Helene, and Milton, monitoring over 12.9 million cubic yards of debris, onboarding 800-plus employees, and supporting more than a dozen municipalities as well as state agencies that included the Georgia Department of Transportation, the South Carolina DOT, the Tennessee DOT and the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency.<\/p>\n<p>Through every mission, our focus remains steadfast \u2013 caring for communities, serving clients when it matters most, and delivering exceptional results. We look forward to building on this legacy and continuing to show up as a trusted partner to our clients for years to come.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>True North Emergency Management, a Neel-Schaffer company, recently celebrated its 15th anniversary, but our story began long before our incorporation. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[44,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-events","category-project-updates"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>True North Emergency Management History Steeped In Helping Communities Recover From Disasters - Neel-Schaffer Engineering<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.neel-schaffer.com\/2025\/09\/11\/true-north-emergency-management-history-steeped-helping-communities-recover-from-disasters\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"True North Emergency Management History Steeped In Helping Communities Recover From Disasters - 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