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Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2

Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2 or CA-TF2 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Los Angeles County, California. CA-TF2 is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

CA-TF2 is one of two Task Forces that works with the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international response to natural and man-made disasters.

Deployments

  • Hurricane Iniki, Kauai, Hawaii
  • 1994 Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles County, California
  • Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
  • 1996 Summer Olympics - Atlanta, Georgia
  • 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah - Deployed to Utah on standby in the event of a disaster or attack.
  • Debris recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - February 2003.
  • 2003 Bam earthquake - December 2003
  • Southeast Asia tsunami - Sri Lanka
  • Hurricane Katrina - Deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana.
  • Hurricane Rita - Gulf Region
  • 2010 Haiti earthquake
  • 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand
  • 2011 Japan earthquake
  • April 2015 Nepal earthquake
  • References

    Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2 Wikipedia


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