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Quick reference: requesting a US&R team
General planning guidance. The requesting agency's plan and the responding team's typing govern what actually deploys.
Information the team will ask for:
- Location and structures: address or coordinates, how many buildings are damaged, and how they are built (wood frame, masonry, concrete, steel).
- People: how many people are believed trapped or missing, and where they were last known to be.
- Hazards: gas, electricity, fire, hazardous materials, flooding and the risk of further collapse.
- Contact: one person with a phone number or radio frequency, and where the team should stage.
FEMA task forces:
- Type 1: 70 members, including search, rescue, medical, hazardous materials, logistics and planning staff, physicians, structural engineers and canine search teams.
- Type 3: a Type 1 task force can split into two Type 3 task forces of 35 members to work around the clock in 12-hour shifts.
- Water rescue: at least 14 members of each task force are trained for water rescue and can deploy as a water rescue package.
- State and regional teams use their own typing. Ask what the team brings and how long it can work without resupply.
Getting ready for the team:
- Staging: a secure area large enough for the team's vehicles and equipment cache, close to the work site.
- Local knowledge: maps, building plans, utility contacts and anyone who knows who was inside.
- One command: the team works for the incident commander; assign a liaison so assignments come through one channel.
Mutual aid workflow
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Scene safety
- Utilities first. Shut off gas and electricity to damaged buildings, with the utility company where possible.
- Keep people out. Untrained rescuers inside damaged structures are a common cause of second victims.
- Leave the markings. Teams spray-paint standard structure and search markings; do not remove or cover them.
Who pays
- Depends on how the team is requested: FEMA covers task forces it deploys; state and interstate (EMAC) deployments are reimbursed under those agreements.
- Ask before launch which agreement applies and what the requesting agency must document.
County resource density
State US&R and coordination
State teams and where a request is opened
Local government air units
Fire department and regional technical rescue teams
Volunteer and nonprofit teams
Groups that work under an agency's authority
FEMA national task forces
Federal US&R task forces based in this state
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Program statistics
Recent deployments
Live news search
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Share of registered assets by discipline.
Governance and statutory authority
State mutual aid guidelines
The typing documents behind a request
These documents set out how US&R teams are requested and what they are typed to do. Open a card for the summary and a link to the published source.
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State statutes
Authority for search and rescue in this state
Federal frameworks
These apply in every state
Joining a US&R team
The path for rescuers, specialists and canine teams
Capabilities and qualifications
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Training resources
National US&R and technical rescue references
Field toolkit and admin
Collapse safety, logs and federal coordination
Structural collapse safety
What to do before a US&R team arrives.
- Stay out of damaged structures; control utilities.
- List the missing and their last known locations.
Logging and volunteer registration
Records that support after-action review, reimbursement and volunteer coverage:
- Mission log recording teams, personnel, times, structures searched and results.
- Unit activity log for after-action reporting and reimbursement.
Requesting FEMA task forces
How federal US&R support is requested.
- Local to state to federal, through emergency management.
- Interstate state teams: through EMAC.