Nevada Task Force 1 members recall responding to Hurricane Katrina

Nevada Task Force 1 always answers the call of duty, heading out to our country's worst disasters to help out where they're needed most, like in July when they went to Texas to assist with flooding there .

Their response to Hurricane Katrina 20 years ago was no different, and its impacts are still being felt to this day.

VIDEO: Guy Tannenbaum talks to members of Nevada Task Force 1 who helped out during Hurricane Katrina Nevada Task Force 1 members recall responding to Hurricane Katrina

"It was the biggest deployment of any of our lives, and that included even 9/11," retired Clark County Fire Chief John Steinbeck said. "Katrina was just a different scale, and we couldn't wait to get there and do our job, but it was overwhelming."

Long before he became chief, in 2005, Steinbeck was