Eighty firefighters from around Indiana are wrapping up a two-week deployment in South Florida, where they helped with search and recovery efforts at the Surfside condominium collapse.

The first responders are a part of Indiana Task Force 1, an urban search and rescue team that includes members from 34 agencies around the state. The task force was put together by FEMA in the 1980s after the federal government realized it needed help responding to disasters at the state and local levels.

“Our core mission structural collapse with wide area search,” said Deployment Commander Jay Settergren, who is also a member of the Indianapolis Fire Department.

In addition to firefighters, the crew that traveled to South Florida included doctors, medics, engineers and a K-9 police dog.

Crews persisted through harsh conditions, including 100-degree heat and tropical weather at the site of the building, which collapsed June 24. Nearly 100 bodies have been recovered.

“We also feel that if we do our job correctly, that we can pull the remaining people out of the building and return them to their families for closure, so in a sense, we’re still successful,” Settergren said.

The crews worked 12-hour shifts, targeted areas of the collapsed 13-story condominium that had voids in the rubble.

“We did those targeted areas as we de-layered the building which means take the rubble away, we worked our way floor by floor from the top to the bottom,” Settergren said.

Members of Indiana Task Force 1 have also responded to the 9/11 attacks and the Oklahoma City federal building bombing in 1994.