Urban Search and Rescue Texas Task Force 1

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Urban Search and Rescue Texas Task Force or TX-TF1 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Texas and is sponsored by the State.^[1]

TX-TF1 is comprised of 210 personnel on three 70-person teams, which include HazMat and WMD technicians representing numerous fire departments and organizations throughout the state. Designed to be logistically self-sufficient for the first 72 hours of operation, the task force is able to function for up to 10 days.

All Texas Task Force 1 members must be sufficiently cross-trained in search and rescue skill areas to ensure depth of capability and integrated task force operations.

Sponsored by the Texas Engineering Extension Service and headquartered in College Station, Texas, TX-TF1 has more than 300 highly trained members from 60 organizations throughout Texas. The team maintains a $5 million equipment cache of more than 12,000 items weighing in excess of 50,000 pounds. Disaster City in College Station, Texas is the home of Texas Task Force 1 training.

[edit] Deployments

1998 – August — Del Rio floods
1999 – Nov. — Aggie Bonfire collapse
2000 – March — Fort Worth tornado
2001 – June — The Task Force joined FEMA’s national Urban Search and Rescue program
2001 – June — Houston Floods/Tropical Storm Allison
2001 – 9/11 —World Trade Center
2002 – February — Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
2003 – February — Space Shuttle Columbia Recovery
2004 – September — Hurricane Ivan
2005 – August — Hurricane Katrina
2005 – September — Hurricane Rita
2005 – September — Hurricane Wilma
2007 – April — Eagle Pass Tornadoes
2007 - May - Severe Weather / Flooding in Central Texas
2007 - July - San Antonio Floods
2007 - August - Hurricane Dean
2007 - August - Tropical Storm Erin
2007 - August - Hurricane Humberto
2007 - August - Comal County Missing Person Search