Several members of the Florissant Valley Fire District are also members of the St.
Louis County Urban Search and Rescue Strike Team #3. This team is made up of
personnel from several St. Louis County Fire Departments. The team is available to
respond to incidents such as building collapse, trench collapse, large area search, high angle rescue & confined space rescue.

This rescue team is self sustainable for a period of up to 72 hours and therefore will
not tax the services of areas they are responding to help. Task force 3 is one of five
teams in the St. Louis area and the Metro East which all have identical training and
equipment. Since joining the task force, members from Florissant Valley Fire District
have responded to several disasters and calls for assistance including the devastating
tornado recently that hit Joplin Missouri.