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• There are 28 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces within the continental United States, with 8 located in the State of California. (Linked below) CA-Task Force 1 (CA-TF1) - Los Angeles City Fire Department

• The more shells you collect, the more you help our mission of saving the oceans. We invented shells to communicate to you very concretely how much you have helped. Namely, when you collected 100 shells, you have helped us to recover one ocean-bound plastic bottle.

Urban search and rescue is considered a "multi-hazard" discipline, as it may be needed for a variety of emergencies or disasters, including earthquakes, hurricanes, typhoons, storms and tornadoes, floods, dam failures, technological accidents, terrorist activities, and hazardous materials releases.

Initially, a five-member Search and Rescue Group formed with a mixture of off-duty Disaster Preparedness members and US&R instructors who loaded equipment onto a stake-bed truck and an 18’ trailer.

OceanHero is a search engine like any other. However, for every five searches you do, you recover one plastic bottle. my search engine? Every year, 18 billion pounds of plastic flow into our oceans. The equivalent of one truck full of plastic is dumped into our oceans every minute.

There are 28 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Forces within the continental United States, with 8 located in the State of California. (Linked below) CA-Task Force 1 (CA-TF1) - Los Angeles City Fire Department