Preparing search and rescue teams worldwide for the unthinkable is what sets TEEX and its Disaster City® apart. Located in College Station, Texas, this 52-acre urban search and rescue training facility delivers the full array of skills and techniques needed by today’s USAR teams.
TEEX’s USAR training features instructors who have responded to some of the largest disasters on record, including the 9/11 World Trade Center attacks, the space shuttle Columbia incident and Hurricane Katrina. TEEX offers a full complement of structural collapse courses, swiftwater rescue training, emergency shoring classes and disaster canine workshops for search and rescue dogs and handlers.
TEEX is the sponsoring agency for Texas Task Force 1, one of 28 national urban search and rescue teams under FEMA and Texas’ only statewide team under direction of the Governor’s Division of Emergency Management. Texas Task Force 1 also includes one of the country’s most extensive water rescue programs.
Major TEEX search and rescue training programs include:
