A Lafayette Fire Department district chief is part of a Louisiana team sent to help Pagosa Springs, Colorado, respond to flooding, city-parish officials said Monday.
District Chief Brandon Finfrock will join a Louisiana Incident Management Team in Archuleta County for about 14 days, according to a Lafayette Consolidated Government news release. The deployment is coordinated through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact, an interstate mutual-aid system for sharing resources during disasters.
Finfrock is qualified as a logistics section chief, a role that coordinates the personnel, equipment, supplies, facilities, communications and transportation needed to sustain emergency operations, the release said…