Virginia Task Force 1

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Fairfax disaster relief task force spared from USAID gutting so far

By Jared Serre
Virginia Task Force 1 members help remove building rubble while responding to the 2023 Turkey earthquakes (via Virginia Task Force 1/Facebook)

While the future of foreign aid faces uncertainty, a Fairfax County-based disaster response task force has not yet felt trickle-down effects of ongoing cuts at the federal level.

Virginia Task Force 1 is operating like things are business as usual, even with the Trump administration moving to shut down the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), according to John Morrison, a planning manager for the task force.

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Fairfax County task force deployed to help with Tropical Storm Debby

By Angela Woolsey
Fairfax County Urban Search and Rescue team with Virginia Task Force 1 (via VA-TF1/Twitter)

Virginia Task Force 1 is on its way to South Carolina.

The Fairfax County-based international urban search and rescue task force was deployed last night (Sunday) to assist with the emergency response to Tropical Storm Debby, which made landfall as a hurricane near Steinhatchee on the west coast of Florida around 7 a.m. this morning (Monday).

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