Texas Task Force 1 (TX-TF1) hosted the annual FEMA Disaster Canine Workshop in January 2013. This workshop invites Canine Search Specialist teams and Search Team Managers from the 28 FEMA US&R Task Forces and TX-TF2 to participate in a weekend of training at Disaster City. CSS teams are grouped together and rotate through training stations. The teams determine their own training objectives related to canine search and rescue capabilities and set up scenarios to meet their specific objectives.
This year, 57 CSS teams attended, representing 20 FEMA US&R Task Forces. Assisting with the training were Search Team Managers, Canine Search Specialists and a Technical Search Specialist from TX-TF1 and TX-TF2.
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