A lieutenant with the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department, Strickland has traveled around the world to help rescue people after natural disasters, including Turkey, Haiti, Iran and, most recently, Japan. How much notice do you get before deploying?
It really depends. We should be able to leave within three hours of being notified. … There are a lot of formalities in our deployment, in the United States offering assistance and the host country accepting the assistance, so sometimes that needs to get hammered out before we leave.
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