From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to the Surfside condominium collapse, Texas Task Force 1 has been on the front lines of the nation's biggest disasters. Here's where the elite rescue team learns to save lives.
Disaster City has more than a dozen disaster scenarios, each based on a real-life catastrophe, including a flattened parking garage modeled after the one underneath the World Trade Center.
From 9/11 to Hurricane Katrina to the Surfside condominium collapse, Texas Task Force 1 has been on the front lines of the nation's biggest disasters. "These scenarios basically train us for any disaster that could happen in the world," Mathison said."It sets it up to where it's very realistic for us."
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