Urban Search and Rescue Texas Task Force 1

Urban Search and Rescue Texas Task Force  or TX-TF1 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Texas and is sponsored by the State.

TX-TF1 is comprised of 210 personnel on three 70-person teams, which include HazMat and WMD technicians representing numerous fire departments and organizations throughout the state. Designed to be logistically self-sufficient for the first 72 hours of operation, the task force is able to function for up to 10 days.

All Texas Task Force 1 members must be sufficiently cross-trained in search and rescue skill areas to ensure depth of capability and integrated task force operations.

Sponsored by the Texas Engineering Extension Service and headquartered in College Station, Texas, TX-TF1 has more than 300 highly trained members from 60 organizations throughout Texas. The team maintains a $5 million equipment cache of more than 12,000 items weighing in excess of 50,000 pounds. Disaster City in College Station, Texas is the home of Texas Task Force 1 training.

Deployments

 * 1998 – August — Del Rio floods
 * 1999 – Nov. — Aggie Bonfire collapse
 * 2000 – March — Fort Worth tornado
 * 2001 – June — The Task Force joined FEMA’s national Urban Search and Rescue program
 * 2001 – June — Houston Floods/Tropical Storm Allison
 * 2001 – 9/11 —World Trade Center
 * 2002 – February — Salt Lake City Winter Olympics
 * 2003 – February — Space Shuttle Columbia Recovery
 * 2004 – September — Hurricane Ivan
 * 2005 – August — Hurricane Katrina
 * 2005 – September — Hurricane Rita
 * 2005 – September — Hurricane Wilma
 * 2007 – April — Eagle Pass Tornadoes
 * 2007 - May - Severe Weather / Flooding in Central Texas
 * 2007 - July - San Antonio Floods
 * 2007 - August - Hurricane Dean
 * 2007 - August - Tropical Storm Erin
 * 2007 - August - Hurricane Humberto
 * 2007 - August - Comal County Missing Person Search