about IA-TF1
Past Deployments
IA-TF1
In 2003, the Sioux City and Cedar Rapids Fire Departments were selected to be the sponsoring agencies for Iowa’s state Urban Search & Rescue team, with each agency soliciting volunteers from their department as well as responders from other city, state and local agencies. The team, known as Iowa Task Force-1, began to take shape in November of 2003. The team became a deployable asset for statewide emergencies in the summer of 2004.
- Search
- Confined Space Rescue
- High Angle Rescue
- Swift water Rescue
- Breaching & Breaking
- Shoring
- Incident Command System
- Canine Response
- Engineering
- Emergency Medical Services
- Communications
- Logistics
- Parkersburg Tornado
- Floods of 2008
- Multiple Missing persons
- Maquoketa Cave Rescue
- Oelwein Fire
- Little Sioux Boy Scout Ranch Tornado
- Des Moines Younkers Fire