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This recording contains interviews with Jennifer Bevan and Robert Conrad from Utah Task Force 1 search and rescue team and Niko King, who works with an Incident Support Team. Rescue Squad Officer Jen Bevan talks about what they are trained to do, what comprises a team, and their search and rescue experience during and after the Boulder Flood of 2013. Structural Specialist Robert Conrad describes the damage in Lefthand Canyon and discusses what is involved in rebuilding roads. Niko King talks about their training, the special equipment with which they travel, how they interface with local personnel, and the timeliness of their recently completed search-operation training in a water environment.

Farrell Lowe, who was living in Pinebrook Hills at the time of the 2013 flood in Boulder County, was instrumental in helping with the rescue of Dan Frisby who was trapped after his house was collapsed by a mud-and-rockslide. In this interview, Farrell, who is a musician, first discusses his background of growing up on a farm in southern Indiana, including rural life, the roots of his interest in music, and severe weather events he experienced in the Midwest. He continues by describing his move to Boulder and the Boulder music scene of the 1980s. The last third of the interview is a dramatic account of the Boulder County flood, the destruction in Pinebrook Hills, the rescue by Farrell and other neighbors, and their subsequent self-evacuation.

Boulder County Sheriff Joe Pelle gives an overview of services provided by his deparment in this interview that initially aired on radio station KGNU's program "A Public Affair". The interview focuses on the Boulder County jail, search and rescue services, forest fire prevention, and citizen use of firearms. With respect to forest fires, Sheriff Pelle discusses the complexity of reverse-911 systems in an age of cell phones, the challenges of the urban-wildland interface, the Fourmile Canyon Fire of 2010, and the idea of consolidation of mountain fire districts. Other hot-button topics discussed include the use of drones by sheriffs' departments and concealed weapons permits issued by the sheriff's department.

This interview has two narrators: Lt. Col. Mitch Utterback from the Colorado National Guard and Col. Robert Ault, U.S. Army. Utterback is the liaison to all civil authorities in Colorado, especially during a disaster. The National Guard provided aerial and ground search and rescue support to the County Sheriff, and the U.S. Army provided support to the National Guard during the Boulder flood of September 2013. The two men discuss the chain of command in disaster situations, the ability of the military in Colorado to provide support in such situations, and the satisfaction for military personnel of being able to be of service to domestic populations.

Tara Schoedinger, mayor of Jamestown, describes the flooding of the town during the September 2013 floods and the community's efforts at recovery. This interview was recorded less than a month after the catastrophic flooding, which destroyed many houses and roads and took the life of one of the town's residents, Joseph Howlett, when his house collapsed due to a mudslide. Mayor Schoedinger details calling in emergency services; establishment of incident command posts; the evacuation of residents to higher ground and then out of the area by military helicopters; assistance provided by county, state and federal entities, as well as cleanup help provided by Southern Baptist volunteers. She stresses the close-knit nature of the Jamestown community and talks about the ways in which people pulled together.

Interviewees include Tyler Smith, Eric Carlson, Steven Wheeler, and Robert Ault. In this radio program, U. S. Army personnel and crew members of Blackhawk and Chinook helicopters speak of their experience during the Boulder 2013 flood rescue mission during which they evacuated and rescued more than a thousand people and three hundred to four hundred pets. They discuss the gratifcation of using their military skills to aid American citizens on American soil and the challenges of the rescue operation.