FLOYD COUNTY, Ky. — Neighborhoods partially submerged, families stranded, and hundreds of roads closed — that was the scene in Kentucky when Ohio Task Force 1 got the call to respond this week. The ...
In less than 12 hours, Ohio Task Force 1 (OH-TF1) packed up and headed to the Carolinas, anticipating damage from a severe storm. But it was demobilized and returned home. As reported on News Center 7 ...
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (KY3) - Many are reflecting on Hurricane Katrina’s landfall in Louisiana and Mississippi 20 years ago. Katrina intensified to a Category 5 storm before weakening to a Category 3 when ...
TEXAS — For the first time since its deployment to Texas, Oklahoma Task Force 1 is now focused on recovery efforts, and they’re using two specially trained K-9’s. Truman and Seven were both trained by ...
Multiple groups of Hoosiers headed south to aid with rescue operations in Kentucky after at least eight people were killed in ...
Jeffrey Newman is a captain at Sycamore Township Fire Department and has been with Ohio Task Force 1 since the early 2000s. He was sent to south Mississippi hours after Katrina devastated the ...
HAZARD, Kentucky — Ohio Task Force 1 is assisting with recovery efforts in Kentucky following heavy flooding that left hundreds stranded and thousands without power. The death toll in flood-battered ...
Crews from Tulsa and Oklahoma City are helping rescue flood victims in Texas, including children. Here’s how they’re coordinating and coping. For the first time since their arrival, we’re hearing from ...
Jefferson City firefighters may join Missouri Task Force 1, the state's biggest search-and-rescue task force, during heavy rains and potentially severe flooding expected in Poplar Bluff and Butler ...