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Virginia Task Force 1 USAR Team Preparing for Deployment to Haiti

The Urban Search and Rescue Team from the neighboring Fairfax County’s Virginia Task Force 1 are preparing to Haiti in response to the catastrophic 7.0-scale earthquake that hit the are this morning.

Reports indicate that as many as 3 million people were affected, and this number ins expected to climb.

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January 13th, 2010 | Category: disaster response, FCFRD | Leave a comment

Border Relations at Station 6

When you run calls from the fire station close to a border with another jurisdiction, it is important to maintain heathy relations with your counterparts from the other side. Maintainin a basic understanding of how they operate insures that mission effectiveness remains at its best. Station 6 units regularly interact with those from Fairfax stations […]

November 30th, 2009 | Category: apparatus, FCFRD | Leave a comment