Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 3
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Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 3 or CA-TF3 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Menlo Park, California. CA-TF3 is sponsored by the Menlo Park Fire District.{{cite web | url = http://www.fema.gov/emergency/usr/locations.shtm | title = US&R Task Force Locations | publisher = FEMA | access-date = August 28, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20120705001444/http://www.fema.gov/emergency/usr/locations.shtm | archive-date = July 5, 2012 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}
CA-TF3 was created in September 1991.{{cite web | url = http://catf3.usar.org/aboutcatf3/ | title = About the Team | publisher = CT-TF3 | access-date = August 30, 2006}}
NASA's Ames Disaster Assistance and Rescue Team (DART) based at the Ames Research Center near Mountain View, California is part of CA-TF3.{{cite press release | publisher=NASA Ames Research Center | date=2001-05-17 | title=Ames' Disaster Rescue Team to Support Search-Dog Test | url=http://www.nasa.gov/centers/ames/news/releases/2001/01_33AR.html | access-date=2006-09-05}} This partnership provides CA-TF3 with access to cutting edge US&R technology and the Task Force often tests new technology for applicability to US&R.
Deployments
- Hurricane Iniki, Kauai, Hawaii
- Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles County, California
- Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma{{cite web | url = http://www.mipt.org/pdf/okcfr_App_E.pdf | title = FEMA Urban Search And Rescue (USAR) Summaries | access-date = August 29, 2006 | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060927113515/http://www.mipt.org/pdf/okcfr_App_E.pdf | archive-date = September 27, 2006 | url-status = dead | df = mdy-all }}
- Northern California Flood of New Year's Day 1997 - Napa, California; Yuba County, California
- September 11, 2001 attacks - Deployed to World Trade Center, New York City, New York{{cite web | url = http://www.fema.gov/remember911/911_search.shtm | title = Searching in Hope: FEMA's Urban Search and Rescue Teams | publisher = FEMA | access-date = August 28, 2006}}
- Debris recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - February 2003.{{cite web | url = http://www.nasa.gov/columbia/caib/PDFS/VOL2/D10.PDF#page=8 | title = Volume II - Appendix D.10 - Debris Recovery | work = Columbia Accident Investigation Report | publisher = Columbia Accident Investigation Board | access-date = August 29, 2006}}
- Hurricane Katrina{{cite press release | publisher=FEMA | date=September 3, 2005 | title=National Urban Search And Rescue Teams Deployed | url=http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18582 | access-date=2006-08-28 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060926210829/http://www.fema.gov/news/newsrelease.fema?id=18582 | archive-date=September 26, 2006 | url-status=dead | df=mdy-all }}
References
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External links
- {{cite web | url = http://catf3.org/ | title = California Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 3 | access-date = October 28, 2009}}
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