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First responders across US traveling to help with Hurricane Florence
Responders from California, Indiana, New Hampshire and Colorado are heading to the East Coast to assist in any needed rescue efforts
RALEIGH, N.C. — Responders from several states around the country are heading to the East Coast to help with Hurricane Florence.
According to reports, fire departments from California, Indiana, Texas and Colorado are on their way to Raleigh, as well as other locations, to offer their assistance in any rescue efforts that become necessary in what could become a Category 5 hurricane by the time it makes landfall, according 9News.
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Nearly four dozen Colorado Task Force 1 members from all over the state are traveling with rescue boats, generators and medical supplies to aid in search and rescue operations.
Seventeen years ago, Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF-1) was deployed to the site of the World Trade Center after 9/11. Today, task force members are headed to North Carolina, for Hurricane #Florence. pic.twitter.com/fz5YDdj8xf
— WestMetroFire (@WestMetroFire) September 11, 2018
From Indiana, 18 Rapid Response Team members from the South Bend Fire Department are planning to stay in Raleigh for as long as two weeks, according to WSBT.
"The Indiana River Rescue Schools brings in firefighters from all over the nation and from other countries that come here to South Bend to train so now our instructors, all of our instructors and trainers from all these different departments are actually going to put that practice to use and go help other departments on the East Coast," Capt. Gerard Ellis said.
Task Force 7, an elite group of firefighters from Northern California, is sending its swift-water rescue team to the Carolinas, KCRA reported.
"They're making good time," Capt. Keith Wade said. "We're expecting about a day and a half for them to arrive. They will travel nonstop. With a hurricane, the obvious problem is flooding. Even after the hurricane is done dropping its rain, the floodwaters can be extreme."
As part of FEMA Urban Search & Rescue Task Force 7, members of #MetroFire deployed to #GroundZero in #NewYork to assist in the efforts resulting from the terrorist attacks on our country. Personnel from our agency can be seen below, shared w/us by one of our now retired members. pic.twitter.com/LkGJgovaay
— Metro Fire of Sacramento (@metrofirepio) September 12, 2018
New Hampshire responders from several cities are also making their way to North Carolina and are traveling with five boats and five other vehicles to assist in swift-water flood rescues.
"I think we all rely on mutual aid, on the local level, but at a national level, the resources just aren't there when a large destructive force like a hurricane hits and it's required that we all pitch in," Bedford Fire Department Deputy Chief Scott Hunter told WMUR.
Bedford is getting ready to be deployed to North Carolina for the coming hurricane. Members of NH Task Force 1, a Type 1...
Posted by Bedford Fire Department, NH on Tuesday, September 11, 2018
Hurricane Florence is expected hit landfall on Thursday or Friday, according to Business Insider.
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