TX-TF1 experienced its busiest year ever in 2018, and it is gearing up for what could potentially be another year of significant weather events. The team deployed 18 times last year, including 12 deployments in September and October. The team went on both state and federal deployments in response to severe weather, flash flooding, wild fires, and Hurricanes to include Michael, Florence and Olivia.
Seven employees were recognized at an annual awards ceremony held by the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service.
Forty-eight new firefighters graduated from the 20th Online Firefighter Recruit Academy after 335 hours of online training and a 21-day firefighting boot camp at Brayton Fire Training Field.
Twenty-three new peace officers graduated from the Central Texas Police Academy, after 18 weeks of comprehensive classroom and hands-on training conducted by TEEX at the RELLIS Campus in Bryan.
Texas A&M Task Force 1 has deployed a 6 team members and two canines to assist in the continuing search of occupied areas that were devastated by the Camp Fire in California.
David Coatney was named Agency Director of the Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) by the Texas A&M University System Board of Regents, and will assume his position on Jan. 1, 2019.
TEEX has rolled out a free online course, Disaster Recovery Awareness, to help communities navigate the disaster recovery process. The course is designed to introduce the key elements involved in disaster recovery, from developing a recovery plan to finding disaster assistance resources.
