 The sponsoring agency for Pennsylvania-based Urban Search and Rescue Team is the Philadelphia Fire Department, through a Quad Party Memorandum of Agreement between the City of Philadelphia, DHS/FEMA Washington, D.C., FEMA Region III and the Pennsylvania Emergency Management Agency.The 200-plus member team included many agencies, with personnel primarily being from the Philadelphia Fire Department, the Harrisburg Bureau of Fire, and the Baltimore County Fire Department.The Task Force operates from a Special Operations Center located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.