BCSO EMERGENCY RESPONSE SERVICES

The Butler County Sheriff’s Office Emergency Response Services (ERS) unit is a regional technical rescue team partnering with Hanover Township Fire Department. Members are trained in multiple disciplines including Hazmat, Swift Water Rescue, Rope Rescue, Confined Space Rescue, Vehicle Extrication, Trench Rescue, Structural Collapse, Ice Rescue, Grain Bin Rescue, Wide Area Search, Large Animal Rescue, and All Hazard Incident Management. Some ERS members are also part of the regional Task Force 1 Dive Team as well as being helicopter and drone pilots for the Butler County Sheriff’s Office.   

Some of the vehicles available to ERS include a semi-tractor with a 53’ command trailer, multiple rescue trucks, multiple boats, UTVs, ATVs, helicopters, aerial and underwater drones, a light truck, a communications truck, a dump bed truck, enclosed trailers, flatbed trailers, and a fork lift.  

ERS consistently trains in various disciplines and are dispatched whenever an incident exceeds the normal capabilities of first responders or when additional support is needed. ERS responds to regional and national incidents through mutual aid agreements at the expense of the requesting agency. Examples of some incidents we may respond to include flooding/swift water, hurricanes, tornados, search and rescue, incident management, field force, and damage assessment. 

ERS must be ready to respond for a minimum fourteen-day deployment within three hours of a request. During a deployment, the team is expected to be self-sufficient for up to two weeks. In 2022 the team responded as part of the Northern Kentucky All Hazard Incident Management Team during the Eastern Kentucky floods. ERS members were deployed for approximately two weeks during this incident and worked in various incident command positions

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