Nebraska Task Force 1 to help with Hurricane Ida recovery effort ketv.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from ketv.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Nebraska Task Force 1 (NE-TF1), the urban search and rescue team based with Lincoln Fire and Rescue (LFR), has been activated for deployment to Alexandria, Louisiana in anticipation of Hurricane Ida. The team expects to depart by 5 p.m. today, Friday, August 27, from the Municipal Service Center, 901 W. Bond St.
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It was overwhelming : NETF-1 chief home after Florida condo collapse deployment Share Updated: 10:15 PM CDT Jul 18, 2021 Share Updated: 10:15 PM CDT Jul 18, 2021
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Show Transcript A FEW MINUTES. OKAY. THANK YOU CAITLIN. WELL AFTER WEEKS OF WORK DIGGING THROUGH DEIS RIVERSIDE FLORIDA, NEBRASKA TASK FORCE ONES CHIEF IS BACK IN NEBRASKA. YEAH, WE TALKED WITH BRAD THAVNETT AFTER HE WAS CALLED THE LEAD A TEAM OF CRUZ NOW, HE’S REFLECTING ON WHAT HE CALLS ONE OF THE MOST COMEXPL ASSIGNMENTS. HE’S HAD KETV NEWSWATCH 7 SERAPHY LEE SPOKE WITH HIM ON HIS FIRST DAY BACK .BEEN CALLED UP TO RESPOND TO THINGS LIKE 9/11 ANDHE T OKLAHOMA BOMBING IN HIS CAREER. HE SAYS THROUGH THE TRAGEDY. HE’S HUMBLED ANDHE T ASSIGNMENT TO FLORIDA APPROVED TO BE NO DIFFERENT. PILES OF RUBBLE AN ENTIRE BUILDING LEVELED IN SECONDS. IT WAS OVERWHELMING. I MEAN THE FIRST TIME TREHE YOU SEE 13 FLOORS OF JUST CONCRETE AND DEBRIS, NEBRASKA TASK FORCE ONES CHIEF BRADTH
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Lincoln responder helps in recovery efforts at Surfside collapse
A local fire chief at the scene says rescuers are taking 16 to 18-hour shifts, digging through tons of rubble to find those left in the Champlain Tower Collapse.
July 8, 2021 6:57 pm
Brad Thavenet is the chief of Nebraska’s Task Force One.
He’s one of the hundreds of rescuers searching to recover missing people at the building collapse in Surfside.
“I would be amiss if I told you it wasn’t very mentally taxing and physically taxing,” said Thavenet.
He says so far they have removed 7000 tons from the pile.