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Podcast: EM Weekly Podcast
Episode: How USAR is Deployed-Responding to the Disaster Zone
Description: The National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System (the System), established under the authority of the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 1989, is a framework for organizing federal, state, and local partner emergency response teams as integrated federal disaster response task forces. The System’s 28 US&R task forces can be deployed by FEMA to a disaster area to provide assistance in structural collapse rescue, or they may be pre-positioned when a major disaster threatens a community.The System is a vital federal asset to support the continuous operation of critical government and business functions that are essential to hu...