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TEEX-Led Operational Readiness Exercises Simulate a Multi-State Hurricane Event

FEMA urban search and rescue teams test their readiness to manage a large-scale disaster   About 650 members of Texas A&M Task Forces 1, 2 and 3, and urban search and rescue (US&R) teams from Tennessee, Utah and Florida participated in two Operational Readiness Exercises (OREs) to prepare them to manage large-scale disasters affecting multiple…

TEEX Trains Florida’s Statewide Urban Search and Rescue Teams to Test Emergency Response

More than 300 Florida Search and Rescue Professionals Trained to Rapidly Deploy The Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) conducted an Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Operational Readiness Exercise in August for Florida’s statewide USAR teams to perform a real-world exercise with no advanced notice to the participants. The significance of this exercise was that…