Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2



Urban Search and Rescue California Task Force 2 or CA-TF2 is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Los Angeles County, California. CA-TF2 is sponsored by the Los Angeles County Fire Department.

CA-TF2 is one of two Task Forces that works with the United States Agency for International Development’s Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international response to natural and man-made disasters.

Deployments

 * Hurricane Iniki, Kauai, Hawaii
 * 1994 Northridge earthquake, Los Angeles County, California
 * Oklahoma City bombing, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
 * 1996 Summer Olympics - Atlanta, Georgia
 * 2002 Winter Olympics, Salt Lake City, Utah - Deployed to Utah on standby in the event of a disaster or attack.
 * Debris recovery of Space Shuttle Columbia disaster - February 2003.
 * 2003 Bam earthquake - December 2003
 * Southeast Asia tsunami - Sri Lanka
 * Hurricane Katrina - Deployed to New Orleans, Louisiana.
 * Hurricane Rita - Gulf Region
 * 2010 Haiti earthquake
 * 2011 Christchurch earthquake, New Zealand
 * 2011 Japan earthquake
 * April 2015 Nepal earthquake
 * 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquake