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Fairfax SAR Homecoming (2001)

First Unit, Virginia Urban Search and Rescue Task Force comes home after a grueling week searching the rubble of the Pentagon for victims.

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Awaiting the Urban Search and Rescue team's arrival from the Pentagon site, students from Fairfax County's Bethlehem Baptist Academy cheered at passing vehicles. Dad is a hero to Ian Dabney, 4, and brother Justin, 9. Eager to get home, members of the Fairfax Urban Search and Rescue team rush toward their families waiting at the Fire Academy following a grueling week.
This team member gets a welcome home embrace after enduring 12-hour shifts combing the Pentagon debris for victims. Just off the bus that brought the USAR team back from the dark world of the Pentagon, Dan Bickham holds his grandson J.J.  

Photos by Bob Lambert, VDEM