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Colorado Task Force One trains for search and rescue missions
Colorado Task Force One trains at a rubble pile similar to what they would encounter if there was a real disaster like the one at Surfside in Miami. Author: Darius Johnson Updated: 5:56 PM MDT July 10, 2021
COLORADO, USA Colorado Task Force One (CO-TF1) did not get deployed to assist with the condo collapse in Surfside as they have during other disasters. However, West Metro Fire is preparing if another collapse is to happen and their help is needed.
“It gives us the opportunity to practice in these conditions so that we are ready to go if the time comes again,” said CO-TF1 Training Manager Mike Parker.
The Centre on Monday earmarked a separate Rs 2,217 crore for 42 urban centres to tackle air pollution and announced the much-awaited voluntary vehicle scrapping policy to phase out old and polluting vehicles, even as it shrunk the budgetary allocation for the environment ministry from the last fiscal by nearly eight percent. Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman, in her budget speech for 2021-22, announced a total of Rs 2869.93 crore for the ministry, Rs 230 crore less than the last fiscal. Officials said the outlay has been lesser this time as the economy is recovering from the COVID-19 pandemic. While the Centre almost doubled the amount allotted to National Coastal Mission from Rs 103 crore in the last fiscal to Rs 200 crore in 2021-22, the allocation for the climate change action plan has been reduced from Rs 40 crore to Rs 30 crore and for Project Tiger from Rs 300 crore to Rs 250 crore.