California Task Force 6 - Urban Search and Rescue

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11/27/2025

May God Bless you all! Happy Thanksgiving From CA-TF6

Photos from California Task Force 6 - Urban Search and Rescue's post

09/15/2025

CA-TF6 Medical Specialist Quarterly Drill Care of our canines within the US&R environment

09/11/2025

Never Forget! In God We Trust! 🙏🙏🙏🇺🇸🙏🙏🙏

07/30/2025

All CA-TF6 members are back home now. Job well done. The City of Riverside Fire Department proudly welcomes home its members from the California Task Force 6 (CATF6) Incident Support Team (IST), following the deployment to the flood disaster in Texas. The team supported incident command functions in the operational area, while organizing logistical needs. The team operated out of Kerrville, Texas in one of the most heavily impacted areas by setting up communication repeaters. Their commitment highlights the technical support roles in disaster response and showcases the value of the highly trained professionals serving from the City of Riverside Fire Department.

07/16/2025

CA-TF6 K9 MRP (Mission Ready Package) continued to search over land and water. Keep everyone in your prayers 🙏🇺🇸

07/10/2025

🚨 On July 6, members of the Riverside Urban Search and Rescue Team (CA-TF6) deployed to support search operations amid severe flooding in Texas and New Mexico. Operating under the Incident Command System, the team coordinated closely with Kerr County officials and the local emergency operations center. CA-TF6 continues to work alongside local agencies, providing rescue efforts, emergency coordination, and critical damage assessments.

05/25/2025

Annual CA-TF6 Water Rescue Refresher on the Colorado River. Sharing the river and training together with CA-TF6, CA-TF5, and Riverside County Fire. Night Scenarios and night swims in full PPE.

05/06/2025

CA-TF6 Virginia Beach FEMA TFR Meeting. WTC Memorial Virginia Beach FD training center

03/21/2025

From Chief Bowron;

As many of you know CATF-4 and the Fremont Fire Department tragically lost one of our own Anthony Ganzler. Firefighter Ganzler died at home on the morning of Monday, March 17th, 2025. Anthony was a rescue specialist and was just in the warehouse on the first week of readiness. He was motivated, vibrant and ready to help in anyway to get out team back to a deployable status. He was a loving husband to Erin, a devoted father to Savannah and Abigail. He will be missed by his Fremont Fire and US&R families. Rest in peace brother.

03/16/2025

Another busy week of training and meetings for CA-TF 6. Class A drivers over night training drive to Nor Cal and back. While FEMA Training subgroup meetings took place for the week in Memphis Tennessee.