Alberta’s Provincial Disaster Response Team∙ Hazard Response Incident Mgmt 1/6 #HUSAR teams in Canada 🇨🇦 ∙ Request for deployment: 1-866-618-2362 (24 hrs)
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25 Apr 2022
Urban Search and Rescue (#USAR) is one of the core capabilities of the Canada Task Force program. We frequently hold exercises as a way to bring together the multiple disciplines that make up this capability
Check out some scenes from our October exercise
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Training in a variety of environments helps our search canines stay ready for real-world missions. Last weekend our team trained at Heritage Park, using the unique site to challenge both handlers and dogs in realistic scenarios. 1/2
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We had a great time on Saturday at the @SARCalgary Outdoor Show! Thank you to the volunteers, organizers, and community members who visited our booth to learn more about urban search and rescue, disaster response, and the CAN-TF2 team
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7 Aug 2024
Tonight the #CNTower will dim for 5 minutes at the top of each hour in honour of the fallen Alberta Wildfire firefighter who died while on duty in Jasper National Park.
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4 Aug 2024
Our team sends our condolences to the family, friends, and Alberta Wildfire community affected by this tragic loss.
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7 Nov 2023
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6 Oct 2023
The team @CANTF2 and friends from Alberta muni’s were working hard on their scenarios yesterday at the All Hazards IMT IO course this week in #yyc.
So many great discussions and sharing of learnings from recent disaster events across Canada.
ALT Three women and a man working around a table with binders and laptops open talking through an emergency scenario.
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30 Sep 2023
Today we pause for the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation.
We recognize that reconciliation starts with listening and learning.
#NationalDayforTruthandReconciliation
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29 Sep 2023
Canada Task Force 2 was honoured to participate in the Wheatland Regional Emergency Management Partnership exercise today in @CityChestermere, @Strathmore_Town , and @Wheatlandcounty. The team worked alongside amazing responders from around the region in this full-scale exercise
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Canada Task Force 2 retweeted
14 Sep 2023
“Since Fort McMurray, it’s just been getting busier and busier, with wildfire in particular, but certainly we have deployed to floods and things like that as well.” rmoutlook.com/banff/banff-ca…
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7 Sep 2023
We’re thankful for the incredible support from the @City_of_Airdrie and all of our employers across the province who support their employees being part of the team which makes these deployments possible.
7 Sep 2023
Residents are returning to their homes - something Chief Pirie said is another rewarding part of the work he and his team were tasked to do. #localnews #wildfires #airdrie
@AirdrieFire4778 @CANTF2 @OurYellowknife
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21 Aug 2023
Great work by our colleagues at Canada Task Force 1 (@CANTF1) as they join the hundreds of local and regional responders in assisting with the devastating fires in Kelowna.
20 Aug 2023
Heavy urban search and rescue team will provide an inventory of homes destroyed or damaged by Kelowna fires vancouversun.com/news/local-…
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20 Aug 2023
DEPLOYMENT NOTICE
Canada Task Force 2 has deployed a second 8 member Incident Management Team to support the ongoing operations in the Northwest Territories and the City of Yellowknife.
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18 Aug 2023
DEPLOYMENT NOTICE
Canada Task Force 2 has deployed a 10 member Incident Management Team to help support the City of Yellowknife as they deal with a significant wildfire threat to their community.
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17 Jun 2023
Today is Neighbour Day in Calgary as we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the 2013 Southern Alberta Floods.
CANTF2 has a display set up at the Genesis Centre in N.E. Calgary until 3pm today.
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12 Jun 2023
Canada Task Force 2 remains engaged in wildfire response across Alberta supporting with Incident Management Teams or resources in multiple communities including Fort Chipewyan and Yellowhead County.
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12 Jun 2023
This week Canada Task Force 2 deployed an Incident Management Team to the Province of Nova Scotia to support the ongoing response to significant wildfires. The team assisted with reentry planning for the Municipality of Shelburne and the Municipality of Barrington in Southwest NS
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2 Jun 2023
Along with the impressive work our crews are doing in @hfxgov communities, our Halifax HUSAR Heavy Urban Search and Rescue Task Force 5 has been deployed to support efforts battling the Shelburne Forest Fires.
ALT Image of one of HUSAR T5 tents from an earlier deployment.
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17 May 2023
Canada Task Force 2 has been engaged around the province of Alberta supporting the ongoing response to this significant wildfire event.
Incident Management Team members have been supporting local communities and working alongside first responders from around North America.
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