Task Force 1 Returns Home; Helicopter Rescue Unit Deployed
Maryland Task Force 1 Urban Search Rescue Team, deployed on Sept. 11 to flood-ravaged North and South Carolina, returned home Tuesday night.
The team comprises 80 members, including those with heavy concrete structure collapse, wide-area search and swift-water rescue capabilities, according to a news release.
The Federal Emergency Management Agency trains and manages MD-TF1, which includes technical staff, doctors and firefighters.
FEMA operates 28 Task Force units across the country.
Maryland FEMA Urban Search & Rescue MD-TF1 US&R team has just returned from their weeklong deployment in the Carolinas, they are back @MontgomeryCoMD demobilized this morning from NC – good work & nice to have the @mcfrs 80-member team back safely pic.twitter.com/Dc6DgOIxZP
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 19, 2018
Update – Maryland Task Force 1 (MD-TF1) @FEMA_USAR_NEWS activated 9/11 has returned from deployment in SC & NC – welcome back @PGFDNews @HCDFRS https://t.co/cRHSJoJ9ML
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 19, 2018
UPDATE: MD-TF1 Urban Search & Rescue Team @FEMA_USAR_NEWS were demobilized in North Carolina along w/ several other @FEMA teams earlier today – (@mcfrs) MD-TF1 expected to arrive at Rockville MCFRS US&R HQ this evening (optimistically) btwn 8-830p pic.twitter.com/qiuA5Uy1jj
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 18, 2018
FYI – MD-TF1, intially staged in Columbia, SC #HurricaneFlorence was redeployed to Charlotte, NC #TropicalStormFlorence for several days. The 80-member ‘Type1’ Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) has been demobilized & enroute home (caravan) https://t.co/5BVpq9tGr6
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 18, 2018
Meanwhile, the Maryland Helicopter Aquatic Rescue Team has left for the areas hit by Hurricane Florence.
More..@MDMEMA @MDNG HART teams, incl Rescue Techs from @mcfrs @HCDFRS @HarforCoFireEMS @BaltCoFire continue to perform search&rescue ops in Wilmington, NC area, thus far MD-HART have rescued ~21 ppl, evacuees were transported to pre-coordinated NC casualty collection points https://t.co/5zihXERZDA
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 19, 2018
Update – Overall #NationalGuard has rescued nearly 900 people, 150 pets in Eastern North Carolina. Go Guard! https://t.co/1eb5y2V8uf #TropicalStormFlorence & MD-HART has been actively involved in some a few rescues along the Cape Fear River near Raleigh & Wilmington, NC https://t.co/me4p8Xvadu
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 18, 2018
According to Pete Piringer, spokesman for Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Services, the MD-HART team has rescued about 21 people around Wilmington, North Carolina, evacuating them to casualty collection points.
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