APPLETON, Wis. (WFRV) - First responders from Green Bay, Neenah-Menasha, and Appleton recently spent about two weeks in central Texas helping out after the devastating flooding on the Fourth of July.

On Thursday afternoon, Local 5 News spoke with an Appleton firefighter who was part of the state's Urban Search and Rescue Task Force (known as Wisconsin Task Force 1). It's a group of first responders who have been highly trained in search and rescue in all different types of environments.

They get calls to assists when major disasters happen throughout the country.

"It wasn't lost on us that we weren't going down there (to Texas) for rescue work, the rescues that were going to be made had already been completed by those who were a lot closer than us," said Appleton firefighter Joe Kozikow

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