Please be praying...

As many of you know my Dad (Joe Kaleda) is a Captain of the Fire Department in Fairfax County Virginia and is also one of the leaders of USAID VA Task Force 1 Urban Search and Rescue. He and his team were deployed and are now in Japan in response to the earthquake and tsunami that happened there. They were joined by the LA Task Force and also a British Search and Rescue Team. They are an elite team of trained men and women and have been on many missions before, such as New Zealand, Haiti, Turkey etc. Currently they are in the devastated coastal town of Ofunato searching for survivors. This mission has new challenges and safety issues such as aftershocks, threats of another Tsunami and Nuclear radiation leaks, etc. Please be praying that the Lord would lead the team to live people that need rescue (believe it or not it is sometimes hard to find people buried deep inside of rubble) and also for the team's safety and their families. Please pray especially for my Dad as he is the Operations Chief that God would give him wisdom in leading the team, managing the rescues and all the logistics that go along with that. Thank you for all your prayers!

Here is a video CNN showed of the team:

Here is an older video of an interview with my Dad in Haiti on Good Morning America better explaining what exactly they do and how they do it:

shalom