New Mexico Task Force 1 is one of 28 nation task forces in the United States with the mission of Urban Search and Rescue.

-The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), in cooperation with other federal, state, and local agencies, created The National Urban Search & Rescue (US&R) Response System to provide a national heavy rescue capability that provides lifesaving resources to victims of structural collapse. It was particularly designed to rescue victims entrapped in collapsed structures of heavy reinforced concrete construction.