COLUMBIA - Missouri Task Force 1 spent Wednesday and Thursday training in Galveston, TX with the Missouri Army National Guard Helicopter Search and Rescue Team.
MO-TF1 brought one of the 19 total aircrafts from eight helicopter search and rescue organizations to the exercise.
The training included an overview of disaster airspace and mission support coordination, a review of helicopter search and rescue operations during Hurricane Florence and a discussion of equipment, tactics and procedures used during helicopter search and rescue.
Teams also flew eight practice missions and rescued 15 "victims" from open water, trees and building and car roofs, according to a Facebook post by the Boone County Fire Protection District.
