Search and rescue teams from across the country helped rescue people trapped following the Mayfield tornado and devastating floods in Eastern Kentucky.
Local search and rescue workers also raced to those scenes.
Kentucky is the only state in the south without a state-organized search and rescue team.
Kentucky Governor Andy Beshear signed into law a plan to create a permanent state-organized search and rescue program.
It took 10 years to get the idea through the legislature. Its goal is to speed up Kentucky search and rescue teams when they are needed.
Deadly tornadoes and floods ravaged both ends of Kentucky in the last year and a half. Search and rescue teams from across the country poured into the state to help save lives.
Firefighters across the state responded to those massive natural disasters, but it can take half a day to get organized. This law wants to cut that time down to an hour.
A state-organized response can get rescuers on the ground faster.
Kentucky’s search and rescue team won’t be off the ground immediately.
The state needs to hire someone to run the program.
Then the work begins.
Source: WAVE
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