Metro USAR Strike Team

The Metro USAR Strike Team is made up of nine fire departments from Bayonne, Elizabeth, Hackensack, Hoboken, Jersey City, Newark, Paterson, Morristown as well as the five-municipality North Hudson Regional Fire and Rescue Agency. Members also include Middlesex County Urban Search & Rescue Team, New Jersey Transit and Port Authority of New York and New Jersey police officers. The team’s full complement counts approximately 500 members. The nine departments are drawn from the seven counties (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Morris, Passaic and Union) and two cities (Jersey City and Newark) participating in New Jersey’s Urban Area Security Initiative (UASI). Operated regionally with oversight from the State Office of Homeland Security and Preparedness, the UASI program is federally funded by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and designed to help protect the country’s urban areas most prone to potential terrorist attack.
Category:New Jersey
Category:Search, Rescue and Extrication Agencies (New Jersey)