Category: Deployment
Gloucester to 911 – Miles Schlichte
Team Member Miles Schlichte story of 9-11 – also found on Gloucester 400 book http://www.gloucesterma400.org/# Gloucester to 911
Hurricane Ian – Florida – Type 3 Team – October 2022
A type 3 Team deployed to Florida to help the victims of Hurricane Ian.
Firefighter remembers that 11th day in September 2001
By Joann Mackenzie Staff Writer Sep 6, 2021 Miles Schlichte Jr. is not a man who scares easily. But on Sept. 11, 2001, when the Gloucester firefighter found himself arriving at dusk in a “still smoking, …
Hurricane Florence 2018 Mission Ready Water Rescue Team
After an exhausting but rewarding 15 days working in hurricane ravaged North Carolina, 16 members of Massachusetts Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue team operating as a Swift Water Mission Ready Package have returned …
Hurricane Florence Type III Deployment
On Wednesday, 9/19/18, 45 members of our MA-TF1 taskforce returned home from Virginia. The Massachusetts Urban Search and Rescue Team was deployed on Sept. 11 to Virginia to assist with the response to Hurricane Florence. …
Hurricane Irma Deployment
MA-TF1 deployed a Canine and Logistics MRP Team as well as single members Federal assets to assist in rescue efforts during Hurricane Irma, September 2017.
Hurricane Maria Type IV Deployment
MA-TF1 was deployed as a Type IV Team with eight members to assist in the rescue efforts during Hurricane Maria, in Puerto Rico, September 2017.
Hurricane Harvey – MRP Water Rescue
We sent an MRP Water Rescue team to Texas from 8/27/17 through 9/7/17, to assist in rescue efforts during Hurricane Harvey.