Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 4 or CA-TF4 is a
FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in
Oakland, California. CA-TF4 is sponsored by the
Oakland Fire Department.
CA-TF4 is composed of individuals from a number of different agencies. The agencies are the
Alameda City Fire Department,
Alameda County Fire Department,
Hayward Fire Department,
American Medical Response,
Berkeley Fire Department,
Camp Parks, Dublin Fire Department,
Fremont Fire Department,
Contra Costa County Fire Protection District,
Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department
The Livermore-Pleasanton Fire Department (LPFD) provides fire suppression and emergency medical services to the neighboring cities of Livermore and Pleasanton, California. The organization uses a joint powers authority (JPA) model with esse ...
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Marin County Fire Department
The Marin County Fire Department (MCFD) is the principal fire department for the county of Marin.
History
The first formal fire department in what is now Marin County was The Tamalpais Forestry Association, formed around the turn of the 19th c ...
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Novato Fire Department
Novato (Spanish for "Novatus") is a city in Marin County, California, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area. At the 2020 census, Novato had a population of 53,225.
History
What is now Novato was originally the site of several Coast Miwok ...
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Oakland Fire Department,
San Ramon Valley Fire Protection District,
Santa Rosa Fire Department
Santa Rosa ( Spanish for " Saint Rose") is a city and the county seat of Sonoma County, in the North Bay region of the Bay Area in California. Its estimated 2019 population was 178,127. It is the largest city in California's Wine Country an ...
and the
Stockton Fire Department Stockton may refer to:
Places Australia
* Stockton, New South Wales
* Stockton, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region
New Zealand
*Stockton, New Zealand
United Kingdom
*Stockton, Cheshire
*Stockton, Norfolk
*Stockton, Chirb ...
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Deployments
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September 11, 2001 attacks
The September 11 attacks, commonly known as 9/11, were four coordinated suicide terrorist attacks carried out by al-Qaeda against the United States on Tuesday, September 11, 2001. That morning, nineteen terrorists hijacked four commercial ...
- Deployed to
World Trade Center,
New York City, New York
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Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina was a destructive Category 5 Atlantic hurricane that caused over 1,800 fatalities and $125 billion in damage in late August 2005, especially in the city of New Orleans and the surrounding areas. It was at the time the cost ...
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Hurricane Rita
Hurricane Rita was the most intense tropical cyclone on record in the Gulf of Mexico and the fourth-most intense Atlantic hurricane ever recorded. Part of the record-breaking 2005 Atlantic hurricane season, which included three of the top ten L ...
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Gulf Region
The Persian Gulf ( fa, خلیج فارس, translit=xalij-e fârs, lit=Gulf of Fars, ), sometimes called the ( ar, اَلْخَلِيْجُ ٱلْعَرَبِيُّ, Al-Khalīj al-ˁArabī), is a mediterranean sea in Western Asia. The bo ...
References
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Organizations based in Oakland, California
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