PHOENIX – With at least people still missing after the deadly Fourth of July floods in Texas, a team of 48 Phoenix firefighters and five dogs headed east Tuesday night to help with the search.
As the firefighters readied their supplies and prepared to depart, cadets walked behind the Phoenix training facility gates to bring them pizza. Families sat in the parking lot to see their loved ones off.
The Phoenix Fire Department’s Arizona Task Force 1 serves as an Urban Search and Rescue Team for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, one of 28 FEMA task forces nationwide. The team specializes in swift water rescue, technical rescue, structural collapse and heavy rescue, hazardous materials detection and emergency paramedicine…