Urban Search and Rescue Texas Task Force 1

[3] Texas Task Force 1 was organized in 1997, and officially joined the FEMA National US&R System as a full, non-probationary member in June 2001.

The TX-TF1 HSART program gives the state of Texas the ability to deploy trained personnel, aircrews, airframes during large state-wide disasters.

Firefighters, paramedics, doctors, nurses, structural engineers, and canine handlers are among those making up the Task Force teams.

Designed to be logistically self-sufficient for the first 72 hours of operation, the task force is able to function for up to 14 days under remote and austere conditions.

Texas A&M Task Force 1 maintains a $7 million equipment cache of more than 70,000 items weighing in excess of 100,000 pounds.