WALKER, Mich. — We all know how badly a fire can damage everything inside a home or building in just a matter of minutes.

That’s why there’s a special group of first responders ready to act fast when a fire breaks out in a museum.

“If you've got all these, these various artifacts that are very important to a community's, their cultural history, if that stuff is destroyed in a disaster, that piece of culture is gone forever,” said Yax.

The Jared Yax is a Walker firefighter who is one of more than 100 other firefighters nationwide certified through FEMA and the Smithsonian Institution's Heritage Emergency and Response training otherwise known as HEART.

While he was working at a museum as a grant writer, a coworker suggested he take the training.

“It's kind of similar to the Monuments M

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