The Response of Virginia Task Force 1: A Medical Perspective
BY CRAIG DeATLEY, PA-C, EMT-P; ANTHONY G. MACINTYRE, M.D.; DEWEY H. PERKS, EMT-P; and JOSEPH A. BARBERA, M.D., FACEP
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Creating a Road Map for Body Recovery
The first members of the Region 6 Disaster Mortuary Team (D-MORT) to be activated for response to Oklahoma City were funeral directors, who were needed…
The Work of a Task Force: Dismantling a Dying Building
At 1500 hours on April 20, FEMA`s USAR Virginia Task Force-2 (VA TF-2) arrived at Tinker Air Force Base and received a situation briefing on…
Task Force Operations: An Overview
Approximately five years after its inception, the urban search and rescue component of the federal government`s national disaster response system was put to its greatest…
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USAR IST: Providing Search and Rescue Support in Oklahoma City
Shortly after 0900 hours PST on April 19, 1995, the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) organized and dispatched one of its Urban Search and Rescue…
Interior Operations: “The Pit”
I arrived in Oklahoma City as part of FEMA`s USAR Incident Support Team (IST). A plan of action was developed jointly to integrate the task…
Vulnerability Of Buildings to Bombs: Additional Thoughts After Oklahoma City
In February 1993, a large terrorist bomb was detonated two stories belowground in a parking garage at the World Trade Center (WTC) in New York…
Medical Aspects of Urban Search and Rescue
BY JOSEPH A. BARBERA, M.D., FACEP; CRAIG DeATLEY, PA-C, EMT-P; ANTHONY G. MACINTYRE, M.D.; and DEWEY H. PERKS, EMT-P
Memorial Service at Bombing Site May 5, 1995
The sound of drums and bagpipes echoed off the windowless Journal Record Building at 1:56, and the band approached from the southeast, rounding the corner…
USAR Task Force Logistics
Prior to the Oklahoma City incident, logistics as it relates to the response of Urban Search and Rescue (USAR) Task Forces had received a great…
GIS Support
During the seven days from April 27 through May 3, 1995, a combined effort on the part of the USAR Incident Support Team (including members…
USAR Communications
As the communications officer for Florida Task Force 1 (FL-TF1), my first thought when I was notified of the Oklahoma City Bombing was that the…
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