Hurricane deployment: Trevor Frodge details his USAR team experience
“We’re trying to make a difference wherever we can,” says West Chester (Ohio) Training Chief Trevor Frodge about the devastation he witnessed during a three-week deployment to North Carolina and Florida with Ohio Task Force 1, one of FEMA’s USAR teams responding to hurricanes Helene and Milton. Frodge describes his team’s assignments and shares an inside look at how USAR teams operate once on the scene. Plus, we dig into all this:
Reaction to FEMA misinformation
How to join a USAR task force
The power of timed skills training
Why pre-arrival assignments work
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