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Austin Fire Department reports flood response deployments, station renovations and hiring gains
Summary
At its August Public Safety Commission meeting, Austin Fire Department leaders summarized mutual-aid flood deployments in July, recent station renovations and recruiting progress that reduced sworn vacancies from about 100 to 60.
At an Austin Public Safety Commission meeting, the Austin Fire Department reported July flood-response deployments to multiple Central Texas communities, progress on station renovations and continuing recruitment that cut sworn vacancies from about 100 to 60.
Fire Chief Byers said the department deployed personnel and equipment during the early-July floods, including three rescue swimmers embedded with a helicopter search-and-rescue team on July 4, a battalion chief, a rescue truck and an AFT boat assigned to ESD 1 (Lago Vista) and six additional personnel sent on July 7 to augment Texas Task Force 1 for search-and-recovery operations in the Kerrville area. On July 8 the department deployed a battalion chief to support communications (mobile radio towers) for areas with damaged radio infrastructure, and sent drone teams to Williamson County, Liberty…
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