LOUISVILLE, Ky. — After spending days helping with search and rescue after Hurricane Milton, Jefferson County emergency crews arrived back in Kentucky on Tuesday.
The crews went down before the hurricane hit, allowing them to pre-stage about an hour outside of Tampa before Milton made landfall.
After the storm, they helped perform water rescues.
Task force leader Travis Bell said with each deployment, they learned something new that could be applied when weather hits back in Jefferson County.
"All of the departments in the Jefferson County, Louisville area have a responsibility and a duty to prepare for those emergencies," Bell said. "The chances of us getting hit by a hurricane, not so much. I would ask the folks in Asheville if they thought they'd get hit by a hurricane, so it's not a matter of, 'oh that's not going to happen', we have to prepare for the if and when."
The team included firefighters from Anchorage-Middletown, PRP, Fern Creek and Okolona.
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