TEEX’s Urban Search & Rescue division has launched the first iPhone application designed, tested and fielded by the agency. The Disaster City Guide application, which is available at no cost on iTunes, provides users with basic information about what to do to prepare for and survive various disasters.
Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) and all other US teams currently on standby have been demobilized by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and will not deploy to Haiti.
Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) continues to stand ready at Ellington Field in Houston for deployment to Haiti. The 80-member structural collapse team will be bringing 50 tons of rescue equipment and supplies to assist with the search and rescue operation.
Texas Governor Rick Perry has authorized Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) to deploy at the request of FEMA to support search and rescue operations in the Caribbean nation of Haiti. This deployment marks the first international deployment since the team was established in 1998. The task force will deploy to the Caribbean nation aboard Department of Defense aircraft from Houston on the afternoon of Jan. 14. TX-TF1 will be joining other task forces that have been activated from Virginia, California and Florida.
Rescuing a large animal, such as a horse, following an accident or a disaster can be challenging to emergency responders, who may not be trained to handle this type of incident. That’s why TEEX recently helped to conduct a two-day course on Technical Large Animal Emergency Rescue (TLAER) Awareness.
The Texas Task Force 1 cache of equipment recently received a “thumbs-up” following an inspection by members of the 136th Logistics Readiness Squadron of the Texas Military Forces.
Brian Blake, formerly with the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum, will join TEEX as the agency’s Public Relations Director, effective Dec. 7.
The president has signed the Department of Homeland Security Appropriations Act for 2010 (H.R. 2892) – providing TEEX’s National Emergency Response and Rescue Training Center with $23 million in funding under the Homeland Security National Training Program Cooperative Agreement.
The Texas Workforce Commission has approved a $4.2 million grant for TEEX to provide emergency services training to more than 1,600 Texas workers. The funds will be used to train employees from eight companies at 24 locations in Texas through the TEEX Emergency Services Energy Consortium Training Project. Thirty courses will be offered in industrial firefighting, rescue, HazMat, emergency medical services and leadership training.
Three swiftwater rescue teams and two Texas Military Forces UH-60 helicopters with TX-TF1 rescue technicians aboard were deployed to the city of Lufkin. Two UH-60 helicopters and TX-TF1 rescue technicians also moved to the city of Longview. Three swiftwater rescue teams are also being staged in College Station this afternoon for potential forward deployment later in the day.
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