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MEDIA ADVISORY: PA-TF1 deploys to Alabama ahead of Hurricane Michael

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MEDIA ADVISORY: PA-TF1 deploys to Alabama ahead of Hurricane Michael

For immediate release: October 09, 2018Published by: Philadelphia Fire Department Contact: Kathy Matheson kathy.matheson@phila.gov

MEDIA ADVISORY

WHAT: PA-Task Force 1 deploys to Alabama ahead of Hurricane Michael

WHO: Members of PA-Task Force 1

Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy

WHEN: Tuesday, Oct. 9 at 9 p.m.

WHERE: 6601 New State Road, Philadelphia

About 45 members of Pennsylvania-Task Force 1 will deploy TONIGHT to Maxwell Air Force Base in Montgomery, Alabama, in anticipation of Hurricane Michael. The Philadelphia Fire Department sponsors PA-TF1, which is one of 28 federal urban search-and-rescue teams overseen by FEMA.

PA-TF1 includes PFD members and first responders from agencies across the region. The convoy of trucks filled with resources and equipment is expected to leave sometime between 9 and 11 p.m. and drive more than 950 miles to the staging site in Alabama.

Members of PA-Task Force 1 recently returned from a 19-day deployment to South Carolina to assist those affected by flooding caused by Hurricane Florence.

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