“We also have to provide services to the emergency personnel who are working the search and rescue. It's an amazing operation right now, and no one organization is doing it by itself. We are all pulling together to try and help each other due to the sheer mass of the storm and damage done.”
Steve Kerr
“Emergency medical crews with Cullman EMS and the County Rescue Squad have offered their services and we're coordinating with Mississippi and Louisiana to determine where they are needed most,”
Kelly Allen
“Typically, urban search and rescue teams are used for earthquakes. But they're available for any kind of disaster.”
Clayton Jolley
“The mode everyone is in continues to be search-and-rescue.”
Randy Coleman
“Many of the team members who deployed with the BEAR Search and Rescue Foundation are also members of the Auxiliary, ... they deployed as private citizens to work with the BEAR Foundation.”
Scott Shields
“It shouldn't surprise anyone that in spite of redoubling search-and-rescue efforts, the deaths are soaring.”
Claudia Smith
“There is no search and rescue campaign that is efficient against a strategy that pushes people into ever more remote and dangerous places. It should surprise nobody.”