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Mission 7
Location: Buchanan County, VA
Subject: numerous flood
victims
Date: May 3, 2002
Dispatched: 1400
Response: 4 members responded
Search Terminated: May 5 2002, subject found dead
Notes: TOVSAR was called by Virginia Dept. of Emergency Management to assist in the search for victims swept away by flash flooding in Buchanan and Tazewell Counties in Virginia on May 2. Three team members traveled 350 miles each way and spent approx. 30 man-hours on the ground searching. One drowning victim was found prior to our arrival, one after our return, and others were accounted for elsewhere.
See news
coverage of the flooding.
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