Category: Deployment

As Hurricane Sandy turned into Superstorm Sandy, MA-TF1 was activated by the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to stand at the ready as a state asset. After the storm passed, MA-TF1 was activated as a federal team …

MA-TF1 got a call from CT-TF1 “State Task Force” to respond with a search MRP to Middletown CT for a Building explosion. In 2010 Mission Ready Package’s (MRP’s) were not standardly used.  MA-TF1 responded with …

The First Eight Days at Ground Zero By Mark Foster, TFL MA-TF1 Our target departure time was 4:00 PM. This would have made our departure time 5 hours after official notification (11:00 AM). We were …

from Andrea Booher The two-hour A&E special Portraits from Ground Zero features eleven first responders that she met and photographed while working on the pile, and gets them to tell, for the first time, the …