First Response Team of America

First Response Team of America

The First Response Team of America is a nonprofit organization based in Houston, Texas. The team is a self funded, nonprofit, nomadic, four man crew that travels from disaster to disaster to help with emergency needs. It was founded by Tad Skylar Agoglia.

He has two 75 foot Max trucks with large high speed cranes and multifunction heads, dirt bikes, generators, hovercraft, satellite cell phones, water pumps. Planned is a fire truck and a satellite connected database.

He is hoping for corporate sponsorship and multiple teams.

References

* [http://www.cnn.com/2008/LIVING/06/19/heroes.agoglia/index.html Floods: U.S. 'deserves this type of response'. CNN updated 8:53 a.m. EDT, Fri June 20, 2008]

External links

* [http://www.firstresponseteam.org/ First Response Team of America] Official site


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