The Los Angeles Fire Department’s (LAFD) Urban Search and Rescue (US&R) program is a dynamic system, which has evolved over the past decade into two distinctly separate, yet cohesive urban search and rescue components, the LAFD US&R Task Forces and the FEMA US&R Task Force. These teams are capable of a unified response local or mobilization of the FEMA US&R Task Force for a federally declared disaster elsewhere. 

An employee working a US&R company, or assigned to a US&R Task force, or to the US&R Unit and provides US&R training and oversight on a full-time basis, or are assigned to the Heavy Rescue and is US&R certified shall receive a premium of 5.4% of step 6 of schedule 2


US&R Stations

  • Station 3 (Central)
  • Station 5 (West)
  • Station 27 (West)
  • Station 85 (South)
  • Station 88 (Valley)
  • Station 89 (Valley)

 


Required Courses

  • Low Angle Rope Rescue Operational 
  • Rescue Systems 1
  • Confined Space Rescue Technician
  • Trench Rescue Technician 

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