HARRISBURG – Friday, the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency (PEMA) announced that two members of PA Task Force 1 will deploy today to Maui, Hawaii, as part of a 28 member Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) Incident Support Team (IST).
The team will coordinate other federal search and rescue teams that are also being deployed to support search and rescue efforts being conducted by local responders. Hawaii has suffered extensive damage to infrastructure from catastrophic wildfires over the past several days, leaving dozens dead and hundreds missing.
Deployed staff are expected to begin working with their counterparts in Hawaii as early as Sunday, August 13, and their deployment is preliminarily anticipated to last approximately two weeks based out of Maui.
