Members of the FDNY’s USAR Team Return from Haiti

Rescue Battalion Chief Joe Downey and Deputy Inspector for the NYPD Robert Lukach address the media from JFK Airport following the return of New York Task Force 1.

Members of the FDNY’s USAR team, part of New York Task Force 1 arrived at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport on Jan. 23, after spending more than a week in Port-au-Prince, Haiti.

Members of the USAR team return home.
(Photos courtesy of Juan Gonzalez, Supervising Fire Alarm Dispatcher Group 23 Manhattan Operations)

The team, which included members from the FDNY and NYPD, rescued six victims of the earthquake that devastated the region.