Task Force One sent to Hawaii ahead of Hurricane Lane
Missouri Task Force One will send three of its members to Hawaii ahead of Hurricane Lane’s landfall.
The Boone County Fire Protection District posted on Twitter that the task force members left Wednesday morning. The fire district is the task force’s home base.
#MOTF1 On Wednesday morning, three members of Missouri Task Force 1 were activated to deploy to the Hawaiian Islands in preparation for Hurricane #Lane‘s landfall. They join 21 other members of an Incident Support Team also deploying to Hawaii. pic.twitter.com/UGLR2bGDNq
— Boone County Fire (@BooneCountyFire) August 22, 2018
The group sent a situation unit leader, an urban search and rescue specialist and a structural specialist to Hawaii, the fire district tweeted.
Hurricane Lane was classified as a Category 4 storm Wednesday afternoon and could make landfall this week. A hurricane warning was in effect Wednesday for the islands of Hawaii and Maui and a watch was in effect for Oahu and Kauai.
Task Force One is one of 28 federally designated urban search and rescue teams in the country and helps with in-state and out-of-state disaster response.
