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The disaster response team, founded and headed by Briggs, had previously been deployed to lower Manhattan after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks and to Guam after the December 2002 typhoon.
The team had been on alert for five days prior to the Iran earthquake due to the U.S. terrorism alert, according to Briggs.
Security, though, was a major concern, according to Briggs.
“There were hardliners who felt that we shouldn’t be there. [Bam] is an area with a lot of drugs in the region,” Briggs said.
Nevertheless, Goodman, Waltzman, and Briggs said they encountered no hostility from the Iranian people or government officials. The Iranian military guarded all the field hospitals in the disaster area, many of which were from other foreign countries, including the Ukraine, Denmark, China and Algeria.