The equipment inventory is extensive and must be maintained at an operational level at all times. The equipment will be stored in a 48 foot tractor trailer and other containers capable of being loaded on any mode of transportation. Rapid deployment anywhere/anytime is critical.

The equipment cache consists of five types of equipment:

• medical
• rescue
• communications
• technical support
• logistics

Medical supplies include various medicines, intravenous fluids, blankets, suture sets, airways, trachael tubes, defibrillators, burn treatment supplies, bone saws and scalpels.

The search component of the equipment is a lot like the equipment at a normal construction site. Common cache supplies include concrete saws, jackhammers, drills, lumber and rope. This equipment is used to safely reach trapped victims, and to remove them safely and slowly from the rubble.

The communications section allows rescuers to stay in contact in case of a find or an evacuation. Generators, lights, radios, cellular phones, laptop computers and other electronics equipment are used.

More than 500 items make up the most high-tech of all the equipment: the technical support cache. Snake-like cameras and fiber optic scopes are used to locate victims trapped in rubble. Sensitive listening devices that can detect even the slightest human sound locate victims who are still alive.

The logistics section cares for the needs of the rescuers as they work in 12-hour shifts around the clock. Supplies include sleeping bags, cots, food and water, as well as cold weather gear.