Virginia Beach search and rescue team heads to Texas

Posted to: News Virginia Beach

By Jim Washington
The Virginian-Pilot
© August 29, 2008

VIRGINIA BEACH

An urban search and rescue team from Virginia Beach will head to Houston Saturday to help the area prepare for the potential landfall of Hurricane Gustav.

According to Virginia Beach Fire-Rescue spokesman Dave Hutcheson the team will leave Saturday and be in Houston by Sunday.

At 5 p.m. Thursday the storm was about 100 miles east of Grand Cayman and headed northwest at about 12 miles per hour. Maximum sustained winds are at about 75 miles per hour, according to the National Weather Service.

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Win-win

Submitted by marym63204 on Sat, 08/30/2008 at 9:16 am.

It'll help our guys keep their skills current for when *we* have the next hurricane someday. Cheers, MGM

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Yeah! Bad deal!

Submitted by brock5757 on Sat, 08/30/2008 at 6:08 am.

We shouldn't help out anyone else in the world. We need to live in our own little shell and not worry about humanitarian efforts. It's not like a hurricane could come here in two weeks and level this place, making us the ones in need of help or anything.