Here is the deal.
I am pretty well involved with a special rescue team at work (municipality in DFW). I have no 'rank', so I dont understand how some of this works, at the higher levels. We train quite a bit for this kind of stuff (at least at my location). Team was started in 4/16.
We were told on friday that we were sending a team down with boats and heavy vehicles.
Was on standby, with no updates until yesterday afternoon. Got a call that we were "definitely going tonight or tomorrow morning. They want us there ASAP" The issue apparently was that we weren't registered with TIFMUS, we (the 6 of us that agreed to go) got rapidly registered within the hour.
We were told to gear up and meet at 0630 today. That got changed to 0830. We met and hooked everything up, were told that we were waiting on the call to leave, and would be going to College Station to have our boats inspected by the GW, and then we would get our assignment. Sat around until 1400. We sent an email asking (basically) "***?"
We were told that the reason we haven't been called yet is because they do not have a STAR (State of Texas Assistance Request) for our team at this time, and they could not authorize us.
We were told to go home and remain on standby with our gear on us at all times.
What? How are there federal assets still rolling in, 10k plus more national guard troops requested today, and out of state resources still being called in, but we are not 'authorized' to go?
I grew up in Angleton, have 2 boats, and would be down there days ago if I wasnt on standby "we could go any minute" alert...
I am pretty well involved with a special rescue team at work (municipality in DFW). I have no 'rank', so I dont understand how some of this works, at the higher levels. We train quite a bit for this kind of stuff (at least at my location). Team was started in 4/16.
We were told on friday that we were sending a team down with boats and heavy vehicles.
Was on standby, with no updates until yesterday afternoon. Got a call that we were "definitely going tonight or tomorrow morning. They want us there ASAP" The issue apparently was that we weren't registered with TIFMUS, we (the 6 of us that agreed to go) got rapidly registered within the hour.
We were told to gear up and meet at 0630 today. That got changed to 0830. We met and hooked everything up, were told that we were waiting on the call to leave, and would be going to College Station to have our boats inspected by the GW, and then we would get our assignment. Sat around until 1400. We sent an email asking (basically) "***?"
We were told that the reason we haven't been called yet is because they do not have a STAR (State of Texas Assistance Request) for our team at this time, and they could not authorize us.
We were told to go home and remain on standby with our gear on us at all times.
What? How are there federal assets still rolling in, 10k plus more national guard troops requested today, and out of state resources still being called in, but we are not 'authorized' to go?
I grew up in Angleton, have 2 boats, and would be down there days ago if I wasnt on standby "we could go any minute" alert...
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