DENVER — Tuesday, first responders from different agencies and volunteers from all over Colorado headed to North Carolina to help with rescue and recovery efforts needed once Hurricane Florence makes landfall.
Forty-five members of the Colorado Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue Team prepared to meet Hurricane Florence head-on. The team members are highly trained to handle dangerous situations like rescuing people in floods and high winds.
Steve Aseltine is a firefighter with West Metro Fire, the sponsoring agency for the Colorado-based team under the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA).
“Winds are about a 103 miles an hour. We are preparing for storm surge, people that didn’t evacuate, no infrastructure and access issues,” said Aseltine.
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