Hawaii Army National Guard’s Chemical, Biological, Radiological/Nuclear, and Explosive Enhanced Response Force Package (CERFP) Search and Extraction Team conduct an evaluation exercise at Kalaeloa,
Hawaii.
On order, Hawaii National Guard CERFP responds to CBRNE
incidents in the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA)
Region IX within six hours of formal alert in order to
assist local, state and federal agencies in conducting
consequence management by providing capabilities to conduct
casualty decontamination, medical triage and treatment,
casualty search and extraction and fatality search and
recovery in order to save lives and mitigate human
suffering.
The Search and Extraction Team is light, mobile, highly
trained and equipped to conduct search and rescue
operations, entry into confined spaces, lift and haul
objects, employ ropes and rigging and various pneumatic and
power tools to breach and shore structures.
U.S. Army video by Sgt. Lianne Hirano April 27, 2022
