Students, faculty, and staff on Monday had the opportunity to see and experience a taste of the training firefighters undergo to be equipped to protect the public when the Starkville Fire Department and MSU joined together for Campus Fire Safety Day, a part of the university's recognition of September as Fire Safety Month. Many, like Michael Cain, chose to try their hands at rapelling from the department's ladder truck with the assistance of SFD battalion chief David Gaudin, while others went through the "smoke trailer," which simulates a smoke-filled room during a fire.