{"id":321149,"date":"2026-06-26T21:36:54","date_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:36:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321149\/"},"modified":"2026-06-26T21:36:54","modified_gmt":"2026-06-26T21:36:54","slug":"helping-venezuela-state-department-deploys-miami-dade-search-and-rescue-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/321149\/","title":{"rendered":"Helping Venezuela: State Department deploys Miami-Dade search-and-rescue team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Updated:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 3:48 PM<\/p>\n<p>lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpand<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"eager\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/5UB2AN3WJ3CU22BIK3RCAXL2KY.jpg\"  width=\"5616\" height=\"3159\"\/>Residents search through the rubble two days after an earthquake struck La Guaira, Venezuela, Friday, June 26, 2026. (AP Photo\/Ariana Cubillos) (Copyright 2026 The Associated Press. All rights reserved) (Ariana Cubillos\/AP Photo\/Ariana Cubillos) <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">MIAMI \u2014 Miami-Dade Fire Rescue announced on Friday that the U.S. State Department \u201cactivated\u201d the department\u2019s search-and-rescue team to work in Venezuela after the two earthquakes. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/26\/ayuda-a-venezuela-departamento-de-estado-despliega-equipo-de-busqueda-y-rescate-de-miami-dade\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/news\/local\/2026\/06\/26\/ayuda-a-venezuela-departamento-de-estado-despliega-equipo-de-busqueda-y-rescate-de-miami-dade\/\">Leer en espa\u00f1ol<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The fire rescue personnel with the Urban Search and Rescue, or USAR, and Florida Task Force 1, or FLTF1, which includes 80 specialists, will support search and rescue operations.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe know that many people in our community have family, friends, and loved ones in Venezuela, which makes this mission especially meaningful to us,\u201d a MDFR spokesperson wrote in <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiDadeFire\/status\/2070565589849190898\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/MiamiDadeFire\/status\/2070565589849190898\">a statement<\/a>. \u201cWe deploy with a single purpose: to provide hope and assist those who have been affected during this difficult time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The FLTF1 \u201cType I\u201d team also includes six canine teams and experts in 19 areas, including command and control, technical search, structural evaluation and stabilization, planning and technical information, advanced medical care, hazardous materials mitigation, tactical communications, logistics, safety, and technical rescue.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The State Department had already deployed two urban search and rescue teams from <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LACOFD\/status\/2070592964842184712\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/LACOFD\/status\/2070592964842184712\">Los Angeles<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VATF1\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/VATF1\">Fairfax, Virginia<\/a>, that had worked together in Jamaica after Hurricane Melissa.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">More <a href=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Helping_Venezuela\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.local10.com\/topic\/Helping_Venezuela\/\">HELPING VENEZUELA<\/a> coverage <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 3:36 PM Updated:\u00a0June 26, 2026 at 3:48 PM lead-art-block.fullscreen-enterExpandResidents search through the rubble two&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":321150,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[123,125,124],"class_list":["post-321149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami","tag-miami","tag-miami-headlines","tag-miami-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=321149"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/321149\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/321150"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=321149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=321149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=321149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}