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Tupelo Fire Department Special Operations

 

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Dive Operations        

Tupelo Fire Department Dive Team consists of 45 certified Dive Rescue Specialists.  The team has responded to multiple calls involving boating accidents and crime scene evidence recovery in the region.   Responses within the City utilize on-duty members with off-duty members responding to regional dive calls.  All training is conduct by on staff diving instructors.

 High Angle/Confined Space Operations

Eighty percent of the department has received training in rope and confined space rescue techniques.  Deployments have ranged from entrapment in silos and mines to evidence recovery.  The department received notoriety for the recovery of a murder victim, solving an 12 year mystery.

                                                                                   

Hazardous Materials Response

     

72 members of the department are trained Hazardous Materials Technicians.  With two railways and three major highways the department must prepare for a wide variety of potential chemical incidents.  A response vehicle response vehicle was purchased from funds granted by the Lee County Board of Supervisors.  The vehicle is fully equipped to support mitigation efforts in the event of a chemical and biological incident.

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Domestic Preparedness

 

Tupelo Fire Department serves as the host agency for the Northeast One Regional Response Team for the Mississippi Department of Homeland Security.  The team is one of five multi-functional groups of public safety professionals trained to respond to incidents involving Weapons of Mass Destruction.  Through federal and state grants the team is fully equipped and trained to be self-sufficient for 48 to 72 hours in the event of a WMD event anywhere in the State.  Current discipline membership includes members of the Tupelo Fire Department, Tupelo Police Department, Lee County Sheriff’s Department, and the Tupelo/Lee Emergency Management Agency.  As our logo indicates the “Star of the Northeast” is “Prepped and Ready” to respond.