CBIRF and FDNY train side-by-side, share search and rescue tactics [Image 3 of 7]

NEW YORK, NY, UNITED STATES

06.20.2016

Photo by Lance Cpl. Maverick Mejiacabrera 

Chemical Biological Incident Response Force (CBIRF)

Randall’s Island, N.Y. – Staff Sgt. Preston A. RobinsonHoffman, a Marine Air Ground Task Force, MAGTF planning specialist, and Native of Shawnee, Kan., serves as a victim on one of the many specialized gurneys that are used to rescue trapped victims in hard to reach places during for a field training exercise at the F.D.N.Y training academy in Randall’s Island, N.Y. June 20, 2016.
Marines and Sailors with Chemical Biological Incident Response Force train alongside F.D.N.Y for a field training exercise at the F.D.N.Y training academy in Randall’s Island, N.Y. June 20, 2016. CBIRF is an active duty Marine Corps unit that, when directed, forward-deploys and/or responds with minimal warning to a chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or high-yield explosive (CBRNE) threat or event in order to assist local, state, or federal agencies and the geographic combatant commanders in the conduct of CBRNE response or consequence management operations, providing capabilities for command and control; agent detection and identification; search, rescue, and decontamination; and emergency medical care for contaminated personnel. (Official USMC Photo by Lance Cpl. Maverick S. Mejia/RELEASED)

• Date Taken: 06.20.2016
• Date Posted: 06.27.2016 18:32
• Photo ID: 2692056
• VIRIN: 160620-M-AB123-931
• Resolution: 3840x4448
• Size: 5.86 MB
• Location: NEW YORK, NY, US
• Hometown: SHAWNEE, KS, US