Texas EMTF 1
24/7 EMTF 1 Coordination Center Number 800-345-9911
Texas EMTF 1 Components
Ambulance Strike Team - AST
- Teams of 5 ambulances with a Strike Team Leader
- Supplemental medical transport for Large-Scale patient movement missions
- 30+ Strike Teams Statewide
Mobile Medical Unit - MMU
- Temporary Healthcare infrastructure that rapidly deploys & provides high quality care in the field
- Deployable emergency room with scalable teams and assets
- 8 Teams Statewide
Ambulance Bus - AMBUS
- Custom multi-patient vehicles with transport capability of 20+
-Care and mass transport/evacuation for the injured or ill
-Rehab and force protection for responders
-13 AMBUSes Statewide
RN Strike Team - RNST
- Teams of 5 nurses with a strike team leader
- Augment nursing staff shortages in disasters that are specialty specific (ED, ICU, Pedi, etc.)
- 15+ Strike Teams Statewide
Medical Incident Support Team - M-IST
- Personnel augmenting operations centers and command posts
- Subject matter experts and leaders in the ESF-8, health and medical area
- 120+ Personnel Trained Statewide
Ambulance Staging Manager - ASM
- Public safety logistics subject matter experts in staging large number of resources
- Manages the staging site, mobilization and tracking of ESF-8 resources in the field
- 200+ Personnel Trained Statewide
Infectious Disease Response Unit - IDRU
-Support unit that specializes in responses to highly infectious diseases
- Eight regional caches of EMS and Hospital PPE and supplies
- Four 72 hour caches available to respond to a facility with a highly infectious patient
- One two week cache that can follow a 72 hour cache
- Training for First Responders and hospital staff
