Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 5
{{Short description|FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force}}
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Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 5 or CA-TF5 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Orange County, California. CA-TF5 is sponsored by the Orange County Fire Authority.{{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-TF5 is one of six Task Forces that is Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) certified having received extensive training in responding to incidents involving chemical, biological or radiological agents.{{cite web | date = July 10, 2006 | url = http://www.catf5.org/Index.htm | title = Task Force 5 Home Page | publisher = CA-TF5 | access-date = September 6, 2006 |archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20060615205253/http://catf5.org/Index.htm |archive-date = June 15, 2006}}
Participating agencies in the Task Force are the Orange County Fire Authority, Orange Fire Department, Anaheim Fire Department (California).
Deployments
- Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles County, California{{cite web | url = http://www.ci.santa-ana.ca.us/fire/USAR.asp | title = Urban Search and Rescue (U.S.A.R.) | publisher = City of Santa Ana | access-date = September 6, 2006}}
- Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma{{cite web | url = http://www.cityoforange.org/depts/fire/emergency/specialty/urban.asp | title = USAR Team | publisher = Orange Fire Department | access-date = September 6, 2006}}
- Northern California Flood of New Year's Day 1997 - Napa, California; Yuba County, California{{cite web | url = http://www.cityoforange.org/depts/fire/about/default.asp | title = About the Department | work = Orange Fire Department | publisher = City of Orange | access-date = September 6, 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 }}
- Hurricane Rita
- Hurricane Gustav
- Hurricane Harvey
- Hurricane Florence{{cite news |title=OCFA PIO |url=https://twitter.com/ocfa_pio/status/1039713548945899520?lang=en}}
- Surfside Condominium Building Collapse{{cite web | url = https://www.ocregister.com/2021/07/03/were-going-to-search-down-to-the-sand-says-ocfa-battalion-chief-at-condo-collapse/ | title = 'We're going to search … down to the sand,' says OCFA battalion chief at Florida condo collapse | work = Brian Rokos | date = 4 July 2021 | publisher = OC Register | access-date = July 4, 2021}}
References
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External links
- {{cite web | date = July 10, 2006 | url = http://www.catf5.org/ | title = California US&R Task Force 5 | access-date = September 6, 2006}}
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