View WUSA-TV slideshow HERE.
WITHIN A FEW HOURS of their arrival, the Virginia Task Force 1 from Fairfax County made their first rescue. They are working at the five-story collapsed United Nations office building where as many as 150 people may have been inside when the earthquake leveled it.
This 9-minute video report documents the retrieval and at the 3:00 mark it begins interviewing the victim and next Captain Sam Gray of the rescue team (video provided courtesy of WUSA-TV Washington):
The Associated Press also provided this raw video of the Virginia dog teams working the buildings:
Also on FireGeezer…
- USAR Teams Mobilize for Haiti Rescue – January 13, 2010
- USAR – Haiti Update #2 – January 15, 2010
- USAR’s Returning Home – January 25, 2010
- Future USAR Tool – Search Robot for Collapses – January 19, 2010
