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Five firefighters from Colorado Springs joined 40 other first responders from Colorado in a deployment to Louisiana to aid search and rescue missions during Hurricane Ida, which made landfall midday
Hurricane Ida has blasted ashore along the Louisiana coast as one of the most powerful storms ever to hit the U.S., rushing toward New Orleans and one of the nation’s most important industrial corridors.
Colorado Task Force 1, based out of West Metro Fire in Lakewood, has assisted with the floods of 2013, Hurricane Katrina, and the attacks on September 11, 2001.
Early Saturday morning, 45 members of Colorado Task Force 1 packed up for what likely will be an unpredictable next few days.
Colorado first responders will assist with search and rescue as Ida is forecast to make landfall on the anniversary of Hurricane Katrina hitting New Orleans.