RTF Responding to Los Angeles County Fires

Contact RTF

Gary Becks (619) 328-6511 Cell (619) 887-9230

Andrea Stone (619) 328-6895 Cell (619) 991-3669

Rescue Task Force is departing Sunday morning November 16, for Sylmar and Orange and Riverside County fire zones.

This initial Rescue Task Force assessment team will be responding to remote areas that are typically overlooked and underserved. The team will assist with immediate needs of disaster victims and will be assessing and determining projects for subsequent RTF teams.

During the first hours of the disastrous San Diego Fires of last year RTF teams assisted with wheelchairs for elderly and handicapped fire victims who had lost or been separated from theirs during evacuation. We also supplied hundreds of air beds for evacuation centers, hygiene items and filled many personal needs as well as supplied air beds, and support to Fire Fighters and disaster workers.

Your Help Is Needed:

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Mail Checks to
Rescue Task Force
864 N. Second Street #340
El Cajon, Ca 9202

Fourteen more Back Packs are being delivered to Balboa Naval Hospital this week. To date, 530 of these $600 Back Packs for our wounded heroes have been sent by the RTF donors and supporters to; Balboa, Walter Reed, Bethesda and Brooke Military Hospitals.

Afghanistan:
RTF volunteer Kurt Swann returned safely from Afghanistan where he has reviewed and worked at all 15 of our Women’s Learning Centers. Pictures on the web site – photo albums

Cambodia:
This week RTF is shipping an overseas shipping container of pharmaceuticals worth $6.5 Million to our project partners in Cambodia

Honduras:
Severe flooding in Honduras has caused damage to two of our clinics in La Moskitia. Thousands are displaced. We are working with our local RTF volunteers getting emergency aid into stricken areas.

Local:
San Diego County Supervisor Dianne Jacob has presented a County Proclamation to RTF recognizing Rescue Task Force’s twenty years of service.

Press Release – New RTF Board Members
The San Diego County based nonprofit organization Rescue Task Force has added the following new member to its Board of Directors: Gayle Lynn Falkenthal, APR, President, Falcon Valley Group; Erica Holloway, Communications Director, Supervisor Pam Slater-Price; Maureen Fischbeck, private professional fiduciary; and Bob Kilpatrick, Vice President and General Manager, BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair Facility.