{"id":377917,"date":"2010-03-01T19:12:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341c630a53ef0120a8e8ad51970b"},"modified":"2010-03-01T19:11:41","modified_gmt":"2010-03-02T00:11:41","slug":"l-a-rescuers-readying-for-possible-deployment-to-chile-earthquake-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/377917","title":{"rendered":"L.A. rescuers readying for possible deployment to Chile earthquake scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A specialized rescue task force from Los Angeles was preparing Monday afternoon for possible deployment to earthquake-ravaged Chile.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s heavy-rescue task force includes 74 firefighters, paramedics, structural engineers, emergency-room physicians and other experts trained in finding and rescuing victims from collapsed structures and buildings. The team was assembling at a staging area in Pacoima, the Fire Department said.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The department said the same task force <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/lanow\/2010\/01\/la-haiti-eartquake-rescue-team.html\" >was sent to Haiti<\/a>, where it helped rescue victims in the aftermath of the deadly temblor that struck the Caribbean island nation in January. <br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The task force is a self-contained rescue unit that responds to disasters with 70,000 pounds of sophisticated search-and-rescue devices and medical equipment.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/nation-and-world\/la-fg-chile-quake2-2010mar02,0,2756079.story\" >magnitude 8.8 quake<\/a> in Chile left more than 700 people dead and caused widespread damage throughout the nation.<br \/><\/br><br \/><\/br>&#8212; Robert J. Lopez<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A specialized rescue task force from Los Angeles was preparing Monday afternoon for possible deployment to earthquake-ravaged Chile.The Los Angeles County Fire Department&#8217;s heavy-rescue task force includes 74 firefighters, paramedics, structural engineers, emergency-room physicians and other experts trained in finding and rescuing victims from collapsed structures and buildings. The team was assembling at a staging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4622,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-377917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377917","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4622"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=377917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}