Video by Kaylee Wendt | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District | 02.19.2026
Phil Stitzinger, Emergency Manager with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District, discusses how ice jam response operations are coordinated during the 2026 winter season in Fairport Harbor, Ohio on Feb. 19, 2026. The video explains how response efforts progress from local to county and state agencies, and why federal partners become involved only when impacts exceed local and state......
Video by Kaylee Wendt | U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District | 05.08.2025
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Buffalo District emergency manager, Phil Stitzinger conducted an inspection of bank damage caused by ice jam flooding in Willoughby Hills, Ohio, May 8, 2025. While there, he worked with local and state officials to come up with both short- and long-term solutions to the problem and was thanked with ice cream cake and a hand-made card from a young resident. (U.S.......
