Eight members of Norfolk Fire-Rescue participated in the FEMA Structural Collapse Specialist Course. The training was held at the FEMA Virginia Task Force 2 Federal Urban Search and Rescue training site located at Virginia Beach Fire Department’s training center. Our members trained alongside FEMA Task Force members and firefighters from across the country. They moved beyond theory and into the brutal reality of operating at a building collapse: breaching concrete, cutting steel beams, and utili

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