82 Person Bay Area Urban Search and Rescue Team Responding to Hurricane Irma
30 Personnel have already left early Friday morning at 2 am with vehicles and equipment as part of a convoy traveling across the Country
51 More are scheduled to leave Saturday morning at 4 am in two buses - they hope to catch up to the equipment convoy
Current Destination – Elgin Air Force Base, Georgia – 2,465 miles
1 member on the Incident Support Team is flying into Puerto Rico tomorrow
Please see the attached Press Release with more details about this historic deployment
Photograph 0601 – Credit Action Photography Peter Mootz – Members of Task Force 3 conduct a briefing prior to leaving to drive straight through to Georgia
Photograph 0838 – Credit Menlo Fire – Members of Task Force 3’s convoy of emergency vehicles stop for fuel in the Mojave Desert earlier today
Current Operations:
At the request of Region IV, and in anticipation of potential requests for Federal ESF #9 assistance, twelve NIMS type 1 US&R task forces (TN-TF1, AZ-TF1, CA-TF4, CA-TF1, PA-TF1, CO-TF1, CA-TF8, NE-TF1, CA-TF3, NJ-TF1, NV-TF1, and WA-TF1); and three Hazardous Materials Equipment Push Packages (HEPPs) (MD-TF1, IN-TF1 & CO-TF1) were activated to stage in either Florida or Georgia.
Full Press Release: Hurricane Irma - Deployment of 82 California Task Force 3 Search and Rescue Personnel from the Bay Area - September 8 2017.pdf
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