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Nebraska First Responders Head to Texas

Nebraska First Responders Head to Texas

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Eighty first-responders from Nebraska are heading to Texas to await the landfall of Hurricane Harvey.
The group is from the Lincoln-based Urban Search and Rescue Task Force
Lincoln Fire Chief Michael Despain says that FEMA is requesting that they go to San Antonio Texas.

Despain (DES-pain) says they got the request from FEMA Thursday night.

He says most of the team is from Lincoln, but there are members from the Omaha area too.

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