
A world-class search and rescue team at the Surfside collapse has responded to disasters including 9/11 and Hurricane Katrina
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They're the members of Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force-1, a group of search and rescue experts that operates under FEMA, or the Federal Emergency Management Agency. When they're not being dispatched to countries in crisis, many of them work for Miami-Dade Fire Rescue as local firefighters.
The team is used to crises like this one. Though they're based in Miami-Dade County, team members are dispatched across the US and around the world to tackle disasters of all kinds. This time, though, the crisis was on their home turf.
Janet Mills and her allies are counting on a gender gap to narrow Platner’s wide lead ahead of the June 9 primary to decide who will face incumbent Republican Sen. Susan Collins. They are betting that the unfiltered style that has brought Platner widespread attention as someone who could help Democrats reach young men will backfire with women.

As a shrinking number of Transportation Security Administration agents work to keep hourslong security lines moving despite not being paid, President Donald Trump stepped into the fray Saturday, announcing he will send Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers to airports by Monday if Congress doesn’t agree to a plan to end the partial government shutdown.











