With recent tragic events like the Hard Rock Hotel Collapse and the Surfside condo collapse in Florida—The St. Tammany Fire Protect District No. 1 along with the Louisiana State Fire Marshal’s Office hosted an Urban Search and Rescue training class. This training gave firefighters real scenarios on how to handle building collapses and perform structural collapse rescues. Have you ever wondered how you would respond in an emergency situation? Well for these firefighters— training exercises like these help them to know exactly what to do in life and death scenarios. “I think all of us can relate to the Hard Rock collapse and the Surfside collapse in Florida. Those are big collapses and these types of teams are brought in to do these search and rescues,” St. Tammany Fire Protection District No. 1 Chief Chris Kaufmann said.