Please Keep Brooke and Karen along with their families in your thoughts and prayers

The Following Information is from the NECA Website (8-28-07)

We regret to inform you that Brooke Stauffer, NECA’s executive director of standards and safety, and his fiancée Karen Dodds are missing after the small, single-engine plane they were flying in on Friday apparently went down over Lake Huron. Some wreckage of the aircraft was found yesterday on the beach at Bois Blanc Island.
Brooke and Karen had been vacationing on Mackinac Island. On Friday afternoon, they set out from the small airport there to Bad Axe, Michigan, with Karen piloting the plane. The plan was to visit her family in the area and the flight should have taken about two hours. They never arrived.

A massive search took place over the weekend. The Michigan Wing of the U.S. Civil Air Patrol, based in Gaylord, the U.S. Coast Guard out of Detroit, and the Royal Canadian Coast Guard were all involved in the effort. The search continues today with the use of divers in the area where the wreckage was discovered.

We will provide an update when more information is known. In the meantime, you may click here (http://karenandbrooke.blogspot.com/) to read the blog being maintained by Brooke’s oldest son, Christian.

Brooke joined NECA’s national headquarters staff in June 1995. His duties include overseeing the development of our series of National Installation Standards and safety resources. He is also chairman of the National Fire Protection Association's Electrical Section, which has overall responsibility for the National Electrical Code, and he is a principal on Code-Making Panel 1, NFPA. Our thoughts and prayers are with Brooke and Karen and their families.