ROCKVILLE, MD — (WMAL) Maryland Task Force One – the 80-member search and rescue team from Montgomery County, returned home from a week in the Carolinas, where they assisted in rescue operations and logistics during Hurricane Florence.
The team, one of 28 coordinated through the Federal Emergency Management Agency to assist during large-scale natural and manmade disasters, spent several days in Columbia, South Carolina during the storm before being redirected to Charlotte, North Carolina to assist in flood efforts there.
Montgomery County fire spokesman Pete Piringer has more on the movements and assignments for the team:
Maryland FEMA Urban Search & Rescue MD-TF1 US&R team has just returned from their weeklong deployment in the Carolinas, they are back @MontgomeryCoMD demobilized this morning from NC – good work & nice to have the @mcfrs 80-member team back safely pic.twitter.com/Dc6DgOIxZP
— Pete Piringer (@mcfrsPIO) September 19, 2018
Several Montgomery County personnel remain in the Carolinas offering with logistical help as recovery efforts continue.
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