Preparedness and Response Efforts

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Two U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), Air and Marine Operations (AMO) off-duty agents protected the public in two separate events in Northern Virginia on September 14, 2023.

* Editor’s note: CBP will populate downloadable imagery products of CBP’s Hurricane Idalia response to CBP Flickr and DVIDS.

MIAMI — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is making final preparations for Hurricane Idalia, which continues to gain strength as a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

* Editor’s note: Media may download imagery of CBP’s responses to recent hurricanes at CBP Flickr for still photos at DVIDS for video b-roll. CBP Hurricane Ian imagery will populate as it becomes available.

MIAMI — U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is making final preparations for Hurricane Ian, which continues to gain strength as a major hurricane in the Gulf of Mexico.

“Due to operational needs, the CAMB’s involvement in hurricane humanitarian response, and an increase maritime rescues events, adding this capability for our agents will lead to more lives saved,” said Director Air and Marine Operations, Augusto Reyes.

BLAINE, Wash. — U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Office of Field Operations at the Point Roberts Port of Entry responded to assist a man who fell from his bicycle in the vicinity of the port secondary inspection area. CBP officers administered lifesaving efforts and were able to resuscitate the man. 

STERLING, Va. – For a harrowing 10 minutes, U.S. Customs and Border Protection emergency medical technicians administered extraordinary lifesaving efforts on an unresponsive female traveler at Washington Dulles International Airport on Sunday.

Those efforts were rewarded an additional 10 minutes later when airport paramedics regained a pulse and again later when news from the hospital reported that the woman was breathing on her own.

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. —Air and Marine Operations’ (AMO) Marine Interdiction Agents rescued a woman from the water Wednesday evening, after she crashed through a wall at a local marina.

Agents assigned to the West Palm Beach Marine Unit witnessed a vehicle traveling at a high rate of speed through the marina when the driver ultimately crashed through a wall and launched into the water.

BALTIMORE – Three U.S. Customs and Border Protection officers helped save an unresponsive infant aboard a departing airplane on Wednesday at Baltimore Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).

CBP Officers Tyler Brady, Supreme Jones, and Spencer Warner were conducting outbound inspection operations on a flight departing to Montego Bay, Jamaica when at about 12:23 p.m., a passenger reported that her infant son wasn’t breathing.