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Speaker 1: Right now, let's say good morning too the CEO of

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Speaker 1: Team Rubicon, Jim Brooks.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, Jim, Good.

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Speaker 3: Morning Amy, Thanks for having me, Thanks for.

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Speaker 1: Getting up early to talk to us this morning. So

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Speaker 1: before we dive in, for people who aren't familiar with

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Speaker 1: Team Rubicon, please tell us what Team Rubicon does and

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Speaker 1: where you do it.

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Speaker 3: Sure, the Team Rubicon is a veteran led organizations that

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Speaker 3: help communities before, during, and after disasters. We do it

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Speaker 3: across the world, but really saturated deeply across every zip

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Speaker 3: code in the United States.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So, and you mentioned disaster, and we're a year

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Speaker 1: out from one of the worst disasters we've seen here

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Speaker 1: in southern California, the wildfires. So what are you guys

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Speaker 1: doing today and are you Are you in Redlands this morning?

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Speaker 3: I'm in Redlands this morning and we're doing wildfire mitigation.

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Speaker 3: So before the disaster, we're out there clearing trees, cutting

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Speaker 3: them down, clearing the brush, removing that fuel, the debris

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Speaker 3: that can really get fired going when they roll off.

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Speaker 3: So really important work to add resilience back into this

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Speaker 3: area and make sure that a wildfire doesn't kick off

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Speaker 3: as it did Diet a year ago.

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Speaker 1: Okay, so what you're doing now is preventative. You have

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Speaker 1: you also been doing wildfire response after the Palisades and

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Speaker 1: Eating fires.

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Speaker 3: So we did a lot of response over the past year,

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Speaker 3: both in the Palisades and an Eaton Canyon, So going

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Speaker 3: in after the fire itself, removing debris, cutting down burnt

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Speaker 3: and charred vegetation that could refuel and rekindle, and really

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Speaker 3: helping those first steps of recovery within both pick up

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Speaker 3: both of those communities.

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Speaker 2: And this is all volunteers, right.

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Speaker 3: All volunteers. So we have a standing army of two

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Speaker 3: hundred thousand volunteers. Those people all sign up, give us

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Speaker 3: their time, give us their energy and their passion, and

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Speaker 3: step in to help complete strangers when it really matters,

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Speaker 3: and mobilize at a moment's notice.

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Speaker 1: Okay, and that's where you guys come in. Okay, wake

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Speaker 1: up call. We're going to mobilize you now. So you

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Speaker 1: need volunteers too.

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Speaker 3: We need volunteers. Just this month, we're hoping to sign

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Speaker 3: up five thousand new volunteers because the amount of disasters

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Speaker 3: is only increasing across the US, and many of them

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Speaker 3: we never hear about.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So Jim, tell us a little bit about what

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Speaker 1: that volunteer opportunity is. I mean, like, is it twenty

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Speaker 1: hours a week, five hours a week dependent on the

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Speaker 1: situation or what are what would they be getting them

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Speaker 1: selves involved in and what would they be doing?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, really great question. So we've got a role for everyone.

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Speaker 3: Whether you can give a single day to deploy and

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Speaker 3: help in a service project, or whether you have a

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Speaker 3: week and you can deploy to the front line of

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Speaker 3: a major disaster that happens. We have a role for everyone,

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Speaker 3: and we also have remote roles for those people who

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Speaker 3: can help us with that mobilization effort, the logistics effort,

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Speaker 3: and the communications behind the scene. So what's important is

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Speaker 3: people decide to take that action and step into the

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Speaker 3: arena with us, and we can make sure that we

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Speaker 3: find something very valuable, purposeful, and rewarding for everyone to do.

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Speaker 2: I love that.

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Speaker 1: Okay, it's called Team Rubicon and they want five thousand

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Speaker 1: volunteers across the US before the end of this month.

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Speaker 2: They've to add to their already two hundred thousand that

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Speaker 2: they have.

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Speaker 1: So where do we get more information and where do

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Speaker 1: we go to sign up to Jim.

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Speaker 3: The easiest way is to go to go dot day

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Speaker 3: and that will take you back to a site that

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Speaker 3: will show you how to sign up, how to register

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Speaker 3: and ultimately get your gray shirt.

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Speaker 2: Because your volunteers are called gray shirts.

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Speaker 3: Right, we call all of our volunteer gray shirts, which

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Speaker 3: is that symbolism that unites us all and that purpose

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Speaker 3: and action that would take.

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Speaker 1: I love that, okay, And it's an easy address, go

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Speaker 1: dot gray and again, as Jim mentioned, if you have

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Speaker 1: a few hours or you have a week and they'll

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Speaker 1: they have. The need is great for all kinds of

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Speaker 1: different kinds of volunteers, whether you can be on the

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Speaker 1: front lines or whether you're doing logistics and maybe calling

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Speaker 1: people to call them into action.

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Speaker 2: Jim Brooks, we wish you so much.

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Speaker 3: Luck.

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Speaker 1: I think this is such a great opportunity for people

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Speaker 1: to get involved if they want to help but they're

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Speaker 1: not sure what to do. This is a great jump

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Speaker 1: off spart a spot to do that.

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, Jamie. I appreciate you having me

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Speaker 3: all right.

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Speaker 1: Lots of success to you. I hope you get tons

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Speaker 1: and tons of volunteers. That's Team Rubicon's CEO, Jim Brooks. Again,

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Speaker 1: if you're interested in volunteering, I just went to it

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Speaker 1: it's just go dot day, Go dot day, and you

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Speaker 1: can find out more about them, how you can volunteer,

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Speaker 1: and what you can do.

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Speaker 2: I love this, love this love helping