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Fire Department Combined Search and Rescue Team		 COMSAR - Special Operations Division


The Combined Search and Rescue Team is comprised of 30 Fire Department members and 10 El Paso Police Officers. All members are required to have 40 hours of a combination class and fieldwork in Technical Rope Work and Search and Rescue.

The COMSAR team has members on all three fire shifts as well as in the Medical Division. The team can be activated by a partial or full call out by individual pagers. Notification of the Special Operations Chief, Assistant Chief, and the Team Coordinators are paged on all possible mountain rescues.

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Special Operations Division
201 S. Florence
El Paso, TX 79901
Telephone (915) 543-6155
Fax (915) 543-6156

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