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Kankakee's Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 106th Aviation Regiment depart from the Kankakee Aviation Facility Sept. 13 to support hurricane relief efforts in North Carolina. They will provide support for up to 10 days. All costs associated with the deployment will be paid for by the Tar Heel state.
Requests for assistance are coordinated through the Emergency Management Assistance Compact (EMAC), a mutual aid agreement that allows states to request assistance from other states during emergencies. Officials from the Illinois Emergency Management Agency (IEMA) have been in regular contact with EMAC representative this week and are currently reviewing the anticipated needs drafted by the states of Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina and South Carolina.
Illinois has answered the call to assist other states with large scale deployments of personnel and equipment over the years, demonstrating the state's ability to respond to a major disaster, even when it's thousands of miles away.
Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was the state's largest EMAC response to date, with more than 2,500 Illinois responders deployed to the Gulf Coast, including guardsmen, firefighters, paramedics, state emergency managers, law enforcement officers and medical personnel. Most recently, the state deployed personnel from the Illinois National Guard to Puerto Rico to assist with recovery efforts on the island following Hurricane Maria.
| Date Taken: | 09.13.2018 |
| Date Posted: | 09.14.2018 11:34 |
| Category: | B-Roll |
| Video ID: | 625351 |
| VIRIN: | 180913-A-FI215-179 |
| Filename: | DOD_106021153 |
| Length: | 00:06:30 |
| Location: | KANKAKEE, IL, US |
| Downloads: | 13 |
| High-Res. Downloads: | 13 |
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