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VIDEO: Task Force Better Equipped Since 9/11

Before 9/11 the Mass Task Force was outfitted with surplus military trucks and regular communications devices and equipment. Today they are well equipped to respond to disasters, members say.

Before 9/11 thewas outfitted with surplus military trucks and regular communications devices and equipment.

Today they are well equipped to respond to disasters, says logistics person Ed Seligman, a Swampscott firefighter.

Seligman, who responded with the Task Force's urban search and rescue team to the 9/11 attacks on the Twin Towers, talks about some of the changes to the Task Force in the past 10 years.

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