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Northwest Indiana Responders Helping in Surfside, FL

Indiana Task Force One

UNDATED - Some rescuers from Northwest Indiana are on the scene in Surfside, Florida looking for people who went missing in the condominium collapse.

The "Times" reports 80 first responders and trained civilians of Indiana Task Force One spent their Fourth of July searching for the remaining missing people.  The building partially collapsed June 24th.

Jay Settergren, Indiana Task Force One leader and battalion chief for the Indianapolis Fire Department is at the site, as well as Captain Ryan Cusack, of Crown Point Fire Rescue, and Crown Point native Deanna Lazowski are among the group sent to Florida.  

They do not yet know their return date.

 

Sharon Jackson is the local host of "All Things Considered" and a reporter for Lakeshore Public Radio. She has been with 89.1 FM since its launch in 2009. Sharon is also a radio DJ in Chicago, and has been since 2004. In her previous job at Metro Networks/Westwood One, she was heard on am 890 WLS, WGN radio 720 am and am 560 WIND. She has also delivered news and traffic reports on radio stations all over Chicago and the suburbs including 95.9 The River, 98.3 WCCQ and Star 96.7.