Teams of the Texas Task Force take part in a three -day disaster simulation

College Station, Texas (KBTX) – Teamwork and preparation were the name of the game for those who took part in a training simulation at “Disaster City” in the college station this weekend.

Disaster City is an area that was developed for the rescue training of breakdown structure with different scenarios.

More than 250 first aiders from several Texas Task Forces and Out-of-State teams met this weekend at the exercise center for various variations of intensive training exercises.

The participants were informed that their catastrophe was a hurricane who had arrived to Texas when the Golf was rise. Now teams of first aiders, search and rescue and even K-9 sit down to get their training to work.

In order to make it even more realistic, volunteers hid under the ruins and collapsed buildings.

Among the participants was a K-9 rescue team from Utah with a 13-year-old dog who trained under ruins.

Jeff Saunders, the director of the A&M Task Force in Texas, says that different groups from different countries further increase training.

“The most important piece in which the other responler have here is that we have to be able to work and communicate with each other,” said Saunders. “In a real scenario we rely on each other to solve problems as a coherent group.”

Since its foundation in 1997, the Texas Task Force One has been used 284 times for important disasters, including the terrorist attacks of the World Trade Center and Hurricane Katrina.

“This exercise brings together the entire team where you can practice everything you have learned in your individual training in a real environment,” said Saunders. “It is a great opportunity to work as a team and put everything into practice.”

While the hurricane scenario unfolds in the College station, various teams on the golf coast prepare for a similar situation. The Task Forces in Florida prepare for the simulated storm to go to the peninsula, where you will start your own training.

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