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THE BATTALION
luesday, September li
Texas task force
helps in New York
Review
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AUSTIN (AP) — Some members of Texas
Task Force 1 have pulled people from raging flood
waters in Houston or from deep beneath the
destruction of tornadoes. Others recovered victims
of the Texas A&M University bonfire collapse.
But none of the rescue workers have ever been
to the scene of a terrorist attack.
Monday night, that will change.
Sixty-seven members of the urban search and
rescue team left for New York to help with rescue
and recovery efforts where the World Trade Center
once stood. Some 5,000 people are believed dead.
“We knew it always was a possibility to do this
type of work and we just didn’t know it was com
ing this quick and in this manner,” said Jay
Peacock, a member of the Fort Worth Fire
Department.
“We’re still in a rescue mode, but we certainly
understand that there’s going to be a lot of recov
ery, a lot of loss there,” Peacock said as he was
preparing to board an Air Force C-141 jet. “Our
mission is to search for lives and remove the
deceased. That’s a recovery issue for the families
so they can start to get some closure that their
loved ones were brought out and identified.”
Four rescue dogs will join health care work
ers, structural engineers and firefighters from 48
fire departments and other organizations across
the state.
The 186-member task force was created in
1997, two years after the federal building was
bombed in Oklahoma City. The charge was to
respond to disasters in urban areas, with an empha
sis on locating and extricating trapped victims.
The Texas team is one of only six in the coun
try trained in dealing with “weapons of mass
destruction.” Members have been preparing for
terrorist attacks long before last week, said direc
tor Kem Bennett.
“We knew this was coming,” Bennett said.
“When I turned on my radio at 8:15 Tuesday
morning and heard that a plane hit the World
Trade Center, I knew it was terrorism right away.
That’s all I needed to know.”
At a National Guard armory in Austin, the team
loaded into the two military jets about 6(),(XX)
pounds of equipment, including diamond-tipped
saws capable of cutting through concrete,
hydraulic jacks and medical supplies.
A giant American flag with a yellow ribbon in
its center hung from a hangar. Many of the res
cuers wore red. white and blue ribbons on their
navy blue uniforms; firefighters wore a black strip
through their badges in honor of fallen colleagues.
“Firemen are always children at heart and fire
men at heart are families so it’s going to be hard,
there ain’t no doubt about that.” said Joe Clark,
rescue chief at the Houston Fire Department.
“It’s been a long week waiting to go help.”
he said over the deafening roars of jet engines.
“Firemen by nature love helping people so we
just want to get out there and help people as best
we can.”
“Firefighters have a brotherhood. It’s family.”
said task force leader Tony Tortorlce.
“It makes it a little bit tougher because it could
have been your department and your buddies that
were standing next to you or that you work along
side of,” Tortorlce said. “Even though we don’t
know them personally we’re all bound together by
a common denominator”
Austin Mayor Kirk Watson visited with mem
bers before they boarded two white buses headed
for the jets.
“They represent what’s best about Texans and
that is that there is a level of desire to somehow
become involved in a positive way to help.”
Watson said. “These men and women who are
really heroes on a daily basis...are now going to be
our representatives going to New York.”
And if those volunteers tire. Austin firefighter
Scott Toupin said thousands more are ready to
take over.
“Every one of us wants to be in their shoes
going,” Toupin said. “Unfortunately, we can’t.
But our love and our prayers are with those guys
and we hope that they do us proud. We know that
they will.”
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Services. “We are definitely on
the road to our goal of Vision
2020, but it is not going to hap
pen overnight.”
Preliminary numbers show
the freshmen class of 6,432 has
decreased by 257 from the class
of last year. This figure does not
include the 362 students who are
currently enrolled in Blinn
TEAM.
Incoming African-American
freshmen enrollment rose from
174 in Fall 2000 to 189 students
in Fall 2001. Hispanic freshmen
enrollment figures decreased
from 668 students last year to
652 this year.
The enrollment figures for
other minority freshmen show a
similar trend, with the number
of incoming Asian Americans
dropping from 251 last fall to
210 this year. The number of
American Indian freshmen on
campus increased from 35 to 36
this year.
Freshmen women slightly
outnumber freshmen men, mak
ing it the sixth consecutive year
in which incoming women out
numbered incoming men.
Overall, however, men out
number women 23,578 to
21,123.
Graduate students also had
an increase of 42 more stu
dents to make this fall enroll
ment 2,561, compared with
last fall’s 2,519.
A goal of Vision 2020 is to
increase graduate enrollment as
undergraduate programs are
kept strong, Moore said.
In order to increase minori
ty enrollment and expand the
diversity of the campus, A&M
recently completed a Factors
of Influence study that exam
ines what influences a per
son’s choice to attend or not
attend A&M.
“We conducted group studies
and invited students who were
admitted to other schools and
asked what they felt about A&M
and admissions, if someone
helped them financially go to
school and what made them
choose a different school,” said
Jay Arekre, research associate
for Factors of Influence study.
The official results of the
study will be released at a
later date.
“We are making progress
slowly but surely,” Arekre said.
“Most minorities that applied
want to come here, which cre
ates an incentive to attract them
to different things such as com
peting for scholarships.”
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