On Tuesday, President Donald Trump approved a major disaster declaration for Ohio and Marion Counties, which experienced flash flooding on June 14 and 15. The floods killed nine people, destroyed 37 ...

Lou Vargo — the director of the Wheeling-Ohio County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency — said during a news conference about the destruction in the area that he’d “never ...

Corpus Christi - Lou B. Vargo went to be with the Lord on February 28, 2020. She passed peacefully with her loving husband of 62 years at her side. Lou is preceded in death by her son, Michael E ...

Ohio County EMA Director Lou Vargo says it will be on standby in all types of underwater emergencies. "Anytime we have a drowning in the creek or looking for evidence for law enforcement," Vargo said.

And that’s where we go house-to-house and determine what houses have been destroyed, what houses are severely damaged and what houses have minor damage.” Lou Vargo | EMA Director, Ohio County ...

Ohio County Ema Director Lou Vargo said at one point, people were trapped on a bridge off Wildlife Road due to high waters. They were able to get through once the water receded.

“We almost immediately started getting 911 calls for rescue of people being trapped,” Lou Vargo, Ohio County's emergency management director, said at a news conference Sunday.

“We almost immediately started getting 911 calls for rescue of people being trapped,” Lou Vargo, Ohio County's emergency management director, said at a news conference Sunday.

Lou Vargo is director of the Wheeling-Ohio County Homeland Security and Emergency Management Agency. He told The Intelligencier that the find was a "pot of gold.

Ohio County Director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management Lou Vargo said the explosion happened in a storage tank as crews were winding down the drilling process on the site.

LEWANDOWSKI – Faith Lou (nee Vargo) Of Buffalo, October 6, 2015, entered into rest after a long illness at home with her family, long time companion of Michael Lewandowski; loving ...