To be coldly analytical in response: Surfside is a bad example. You're right that it wouldn't matter there, but that's not the use case. On the national level,

To be coldly analytical in response: Surfside is a bad example. You're right that it wouldn't matter there, but that's not the use case. On the national level, because there are few dire incidents in an affluent peaceful nation, there may not be much use for this in, say, the USA. You can solve most of its emergency problems with raw manpower and there aren't many resource constraints. It's real use case is international, especially in times and places of war. I can pick two out of the news right now - Ukraine, Palestine - and say it would be helpful there. But even if those wars ended, we can be certain new ones will crop up with similar conditions, where it could also be used. There will always be places, internationally, where buildings are collapsing and resources for rescue are scant to nonexistent.