Search and Rescue Team Demobilized

 

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California Task Force 2 Demobilized by USAID

 

LOS ANGELES – March 3, 2010 – Members of California Task Force 2 (CA-TF2), Los Angeles County Fire’s Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Task Force, have been demobilized.

 

The Task Force was mobilized on March 1 for possible deployment to Chile following the country’s 8.8 magnitude earthquake, and received word late yesterday from the United States Agency for International Development, U.S. Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance (USAID-OFDA) that it could stand down.  For more information, contact LACoFD Public Information at (323) 881-2411.

 

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