Help from Maryland is on the way for those hit by Hurricane Fiona

MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md.  — Hurricane Fiona devastated Puerto Rico this weekend. It knocked out energy and destroyed many houses, now assist from Maryland is on the way in which.

MD Process Pressure 1 is an City Rescue Group out of Montgomery County. 35 members will likely be in Puerto Rico for a 10-14 day deployment.

It is considered one of 28 groups within the U.S.

Joe Keefer is the duty drive chief. They assist with disasters each synthetic and pure. That is an elite group.

Engineers and constructing reinforcement groups are among the many rescuers. They’ve loads of expertise.

“Oklahoma Metropolis to 9/11 on the Pentagon, to Katrina, final 12 months we had been in Louisiana,” stated Keefer.

This crew has a variety of experience.

It is not simply the women and men from the duty drive going to Puerto Rico, a few of these four-legged heroes are making the journey as nicely.

These canine are extremely skilled for simply such a mission.

“So our three search and rescue canine are there to assist clue us if somebody is likely to be trapped i.e., beneath concrete or in a pile of stuff we will not see them,” stated Keefer.

The fourth canine is a human detection canine in case they don’t discover any dwelling victims. That is very laborious work in powerful situations for the canine and the others there to assist, however they’ve had success earlier than with discovering victims nicely after a disaster.

“Days into every week or so after one thing has occurred and once we discovered them,” stated Keefer.