Texas A&amp;M Task Force 1 personnel have responded to incidents such as &lt;a href="collapse%20of%20the%20World%20Trade%20Center"&gt;9/11&lt;/a&gt; and Hurricane Katrina. Texas Task Force 1 was dispatched to the April 17, 2013 West fertilizer plant explosion and were dispatched to assist in the wake of the 2013 Moore tornado. In 2014 they were dispatched to an area outside of Little Rock, Arkansas to assist after a number of tornadoes hit the area. TX-TF1 had a record number of deployments in 2015, 2016, 2017, and 2018 as the team responded such natural disasters as the catastrophic 2015 Blanco River (Texas) flooding, the damaging May 2016 North American storm complex, the historic 2017 Atlantic hurricane season, to include Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Maria, and the very busy 2018 Atlantic hurricane season responding to Hurricane Florence and Hurricane Michael.