Ready to respond at a
moment's notice with the ability to be mobilized and deployed within four hours. The team is designed to be logistically self-sufficient for the
first 72-hours of operation and is able to function for up to 14 days under
remote and austere conditions.
TX-TF1 is able to respond to disasters including earthquakes,
hurricanes, widespread tornadoes, floods, and man-made technological and
terrorist events.
Task Force members are trained and equipped to locate and
extricate victims trapped in collapsed structures, confined spaces, and trenches
as well as water rescue in flood or swiftwater environments.
Urban Search and Rescue
The team is split into six skill components consisting of
command structure, rescue, medical, logistics, hazardous materials, planning,
and search (including canine search teams). Aside from the 70-member Type-1
US&R team, TX-TF1 also has a 28-member Type-3 US&R team that is
capable of responding to light structural collapses and general rescue
situations.
Flood Response
This group of more than three hundred responders was formed in 2000 as the nation's
first statewide water rescue team. The water rescue team can be ready to deploy within one hour of notification.
TX-TF1 and Texas Military Forces partner to provide Helicopter Search and Rescue Technicians and helicopters for rescues that are time critical or cannot
be accomplished by land or water.
TX-TF1 aided in rescuing over 13,000 downtown
New Orleans residents in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina.
