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.^[1]

A woman is rescued alive from rubble by the CA-TF2 several days after the 2010 Haiti earthquake.

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.^[2][3]

Deployments

• Hurricane Iniki, Kauai, Hawaii^[4]
• 1994 Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles County, California^[4]
• Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma^[5]
• 1996 Summer Olympics - Atlanta, Georgia^[4]
• 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah - Deployed to Utah on standby in the event of a disaster or attack.^[4]
• Debris recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - February 2003.^[6]
• 2003 Bam earthquake - December 2003^[7]
• Southeast Asia tsunami - Sri Lanka^[4]
• Hurricane Katrina - Deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana.^[8]
• Hurricane Rita - Gulf Region^[4]
• 2010 Haiti earthquake^[9]
• 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand^[10]
• 2011 Japan earthquake^[11]
• April 2015 Nepal earthquake^[12]
• 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake^[13]