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California's Task Force 2: Behind the team that helped rescue Nepal

By Take Two Staff

Published Jun 25, 2015

Members of Task Force 2 from the Los Angeles County Fire Department recovered survivors from a building that collapsed in May after a major aftershock in Singati, a mountain village in Nepal.

Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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California's Task Force 2: Behind the team that helped rescue Nepal

Thursday marks two months since a 7.8-magnitude earthquake devastated Nepal.

That quake, and a 7.3-magnitude aftershock days later, killed 9,000 people. But plenty of people were rescued, too, thanks in part to California's Task Force Two.

Journalist Vince Beiser gave an inside look at the team in a recent issue of The California Sunday Magazine. He joined the show with more.

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