Dozens of Central Florida first responders helping with aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana

Florida Urban Search and Rescue Task Force No. 4 has officially completed its first day in Louisiana to help with the aftermath of Hurricane Ida.

The crew is made up of more than 40 Central Florida first responders who arrived in Louisiana at 2 a.m. Tuesday.

The alarm for work went off three hours later.

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Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast Jerilyn Collins returns to her destroyed home with the assistance of a Louisiana National Guard high water vehicle to retrieve medicine for herself and her father, and a few possessions, after she evacuated from rising floodwater in the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in LaPlace, La., Monday, Aug. 30, 2021. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert) (Gerald Herbert/AP)

Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast A man and his stepson walk through water in Saint Rose, Louisiana, on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on August 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but had weakened to a tropical storm early August 30, 2021.The storm knocked out power for all of New Orleans, with more than a million customers across Louisiana without power, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.US. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast A man cleans up damaged street signs in Kenner, Louisiana, on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on August 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but had weakened to a tropical storm early August 30, 2021.The storm knocked out power for all of New Orleans, with more than a million customers across Louisiana without power, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.US. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast A truck drives through high water near Highway 61 in Destrehan, Louisiana, on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on August 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but had weakened to a tropical storm early August 30, 2021.The storm knocked out power for all of New Orleans, with more than a million customers across Louisiana without power, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.US. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast A person on a bicycle passes a damaged Shell station in Kenner, Louisiana, on August 30, 2021 after Hurricane Ida made landfall. - Powerful Hurricane Ida battered the southern US state of Louisiana, leaving at least one dead and knocking out power for more than a million people, including the whole of New Orleans. Ida slammed into the Louisiana coast as a Category 4 storm on August 29, 2021, 16 years to the day after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but had weakened to a tropical storm early August 30, 2021.The storm knocked out power for all of New Orleans, with more than a million customers across Louisiana without power, according to outage tracker PowerOutage.US. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast New Orleans Firefighters assess damage as they look through debris after a building collapsed from the effects of Hurricane Ida, Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in New Orleans, La. All of New Orleans lost power right around sunset Sunday as the hurricane blew ashore on the 16th anniversary of Katrina, leading to an uneasy night of pouring rain and howling wind. The weather died down shortly before dawn. (Eric Gay/AP Photo)

Ida damages buildings, floods roads on Gulf Coast Traffic diverts around downed power lines Monday, Aug. 30, 2021, in Metairie, La. A fearsome Hurricane Ida has left scores of coastal Louisiana residents trapped by floodwaters and pleading to be rescued, while making a shambles of the electrical grid across a wide swath of the state in the sweltering, late-summer heat. One of the most powerful hurricanes ever to hit the U.S. mainland has now weakened into a tropical storm as it pushes inland over Mississippi with torrential rain and shrieking winds. (Steve Helber/AP Photo)

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Some of them just returned from their Surfside deployment. Now, two months later, they are back out there helping another community struck by tragedy.

The men and women on the mission are from fire departments across the area, including Orlando, Kissimmee, Melbourne and Clermont, as well as Orange, Seminole and Osceola counties.

They are working sun up to sun down in the aftermath of Ida.

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“We can offer certain things to make it easier temporarily, but the reality remains that long after we’re gone, these people’s lives are changed forever,” said Orlando Fire Department district chief Spencer Bashinski. “The hardest part of this work is seeing people in their worst time or their greatest time of need.”

Bashinski and the team have spent hours in Jefferson Parrish, Louisiana.

“We’re a good distance from the coast right now,” he said. “So what we’re seeing is trees blown over on houses, a lot of water main breaks, gas line ruptures, things of that nature.”

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He said the area the team is assigned to is not seeing the devastation they did last year with Hurricane Laura.

The task force has been on four deployments in the last year: Hurricane Sally, Hurricane Laura, the Surfside condo collapse and, now, Hurricane Ida.

“Four deployments in one year is definitely the most we’ve ever done,” Bashinski said.

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Central Florida first responders in Louisiana Dozens of first responders from Central Florida are helping with the aftermath of Hurricane Ida in Louisiana. (Spencer Bashinski/Spencer Bashinski)

He said it is tiring, emotional work that makes an impact.

“The municipalities that we work for have really been doing a good job of offering mental health resources,” Bashinski said. “And that’s one way that we make sure that we remain resilient to be able to respond to these calls time and time again.”

The team is scheduled to be in Louisiana for 14 days but will come back home earlier if there is no need.

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VIDEO: What satellite data reveals about Hurricane Ida’s path WFTV’s certified meteorologists Tom Terry and George Waldenberger each analyzed Satellite data to get a deeper look at Hurricane Ida’s behavior. (Tom Terry, WFTV.com)