Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 5
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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.[1]
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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.[2]
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[3]
- Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma[4]
- Northern California Flood of New Year's Day 1997 - Napa, California; Yuba County, California[5]
- Debris recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - February 2003.[6]
- Hurricane Katrina[7]
- Hurricane Rita[5]
- Hurricane Gustav
- Hurricane Harvey
- Hurricane Florence[8]
- Surfside Condominium Building Collapse[9]
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