FAIRFAX COUNTY, VA: First to Haiti in response to the earthquake.

[Nikki Stone1]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3036677/#34851050

(9 minutes in)

Great job Northern Virginia!

[FSogol]

1. Cool. Nice job. n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

2. @--->------

:toast:

[FSogol]

4. I live about 2 blocks from a Fairfax County Fire Station.

We go there in the Spring every year for their open house. Lot of good people work there.

[Nikki Stone1]

7. You should be proud of them.

:)

[Bitwit1234]

3. Check back and you'll see that in these cases Fairfax is always first there

and in a hurry.

[shadesofgray]

5. I live in Fairfax County. I wish it could secede from what is now a red fundie state.

[Nikki Stone1]

6. Fairfax County is blue?

I always thought it was more Rockefeller Republican.

[FSogol]

10. Nope, it is usually blue. n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

12. Good to know.

:)

[Stinky The Clown]

8. They were assembled and ready to go at Dulles Airport early this morning

They are among the world's best, if not the world's *very* best.

[Nikki Stone1]

9. Very glad to hear it.

I wish they could get a 5th rec.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. Them and the Canukcs are already in

and they are about to get joined by a lot of other teams from around the world.

[Captain Hilts]

13. They're amazing. Mexico City. Armenia... nt

[Maru Kitteh]

14. DH's ultra-wingnut fundie Catholic-convert ex-wife must be torn up right now

On the one hand, Haiti is about 80% Catholic. On the other hand, it's about 90% Voodoo.


She's hiding from the law and creditors in Fairfax, and other places. Her latest husband was a profiteer in the "secondary mortgage" market.


If guilt serves a purpose, I hope it moves her to donate some of that blood money they're hiding to the suffering people of Haiti.

[Stinky The Clown]

15. More ..... VA-TF1 is ......

....... a 70-person unit of highly trained and skilled firefighters, paramedics, doctors, structural engineers, canine handlers and other specialists. Established in 1986, the team has responded to a variety of events throughout the world, including: earthquakes in Turkey, the Philippines and California; bombings at Oklahoma City and the U.S. Embassy in Kenya and the September 11th attack on the Pentagon. VA-TF1 is one of 28 Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) task forces in the United States. Along with the unit from Los Angeles County, CA, they are chartered by USAID as the US's two primary international response Go Teams.

More: http://www.vatf1.org/

[Nikki Stone1]

16. +1

Great group!

[arcadian]

17. Interesting, I wonder how much intel that team reports back to The Agency.

[autorank]

18. We're very proud of this group in Northern Virgnia

They do it out of a commitment to excellence in the service of people in distress.

They've traveled all over the world, including the epic Turkish earthquake.

They keep a low profile and just get it done.

They were ready to go, almost instantly, and had to wait due to air traffic control
worries about the weight of the plane and the tons of supplies being handled by the
airport in Haiti...but they're off and now they'll do their job.