{"id":491923,"date":"2026-10-10T21:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491923\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T21:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T21:22:09","slug":"la-county-search-and-rescue-team-heads-to-panama-after-earthquakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/491923\/","title":{"rendered":"LA County search and rescue team heads to Panama after earthquakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s International Urban Search and Rescue Team has left for Panama to provide assistance in that country following a magnitude-7.7 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KABC logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791667329_446_origin-kabc.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Saturday, October 10, 2026 8:13PM<\/p>\n<p>Follow ABC7 on Google<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">LOS ANGELES (KABC) &#8212; The Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s International Urban Search and Rescue Team has left for Panama to provide assistance in that country following a magnitude-7.7 earthquake.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The 10-member support team, dubbed USA-02, was activated by the U.S. State Department on Friday, and departed that night for Panama.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The team consists of six LACoFD members, three structural specialists from the county Department of Public Works and one medical doctor from LA Health Services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The county fire department also announced that its 79-member international USAR Heavy Rescue Team has also been alerted for possible deployment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The earthquake struck Friday afternoon, collapsing buildings and prompting evacuations across the nation. It was followed by dozens of aftershocks, including one with a magnitude of 6.6.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">No fatalities were immediately reported in the aftermath of the temblors.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KABC Television, LLC. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s International Urban Search and Rescue Team has left for Panama to provide&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":491924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[191744,48,52,51,47,50,49],"class_list":["post-491923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-191744","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=491923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/491924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=491923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=491923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}