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US rescue team delays scheduled departure for Iran

A rescue team of Los Angeles County Fire Department, which was to leave for Iran to provide assistance to earthquake victims there, delayed its scheduled departure on Saturday.

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A rescue team of Los Angeles County Fire Department, which was to leave for Iran to provide assistance to earthquake victims there, delayed its scheduled departure on Saturday.

Roland Sprewell, inspector of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, said he received word at about 2 p.m. local time (1000GMT) that the trip had been put on hold.

Activated by the US Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance, about 70 members of the Urban Search and Rescue Team of Los Angeles County Fire Department assembled at a facility in Pacoima early Saturday. They were to travel in a convoy of 12 vehicles to Marsh Air Force Base, where they would depart for Iran.

Sprewell said the team was to take all their equipment used in search and rescue operations to Iran, including five canine searchteams trained by the Search Dog Foundation.

It was the first international assignment for the team that wassent to help after the 1994 Northridge Earthquake, the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing and the Sept. 11 terror attacks on the World Trade Center in New York City and Pentagon in Washington.

The crew is one of two US teams to be sent to Iran after a devastating earthquake claimed more than 20,000 lives and injured tens of thousands others.

The other team was being sent from Fairfax County, Virginia, Sprewell said.

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