Hello, gorgeous. Welcome back to the bonus episode of Give Them Alla podcast.

On the heels of what we spoke about on last week's regular old episode, I want to put out there some fantastic organizations that have been vetted and you can go to and give whatever you possibly

can. Los Angeles definitely needs you guys right now. And remember, L.A. isn't just home to

celebrities with a lot of money. People have come from all over the world in hopes for dreams

and a better life. And a lot of those people came and have been in their homes for decades.

And they're just regular people like us. And I want you to remember that part. Before I give this laundry list of incredible organizations,

in the last episode, Landon, I cut you off

and you weren't able to talk about the incredible firefighter program for inmates.

Yeah.

And I think we need to talk about that.

I think it's really cool.

Pretty impressive. One, awesome that we could get additional resources, right, and additional manpower to go out and fight it. But this program, I was reading a guy that used to be in it.

He's out now, and he was detailing how it works. And it was really, really cool. And so this program, one, Cal Fire comes in. It's a voluntary program. You have to agree to go into it. So some people were, I think, talking about it was like, oh, terrible conditions. How can you force these people to go work, right? Oh, okay. So people thought it was like, hey, you, inmate 4756, get your ass out there. And that's not what it's like. No, not what it's, not what it's like at all. And so you have to be, you have to volunteer to go into it. And you have to have less than seven years on your prison sentence left because it reduces the time you have to serve by doing this. And Cal Fire comes in. They do a short training, not like a full fire training, but a short training. And they work only with, they don't use water at all in their fighting. So they get like hand tools

to like clean the brush. Clean the brush. So they make a prevent the fire from spreading more.

Got it. So, so they go in on the ground. They don't man an engine or anything like that. And,

but once they get into the program, they go into these fire camps. It's not just during the wildfires. They're out of prison, out of the prison system, or not the prison system, but out of the prison walls for the rest of their sentence. And they're in these wilderness camps where they train, you know, and they're there and doing stuff year-round. They're living in

the wilderness, which sounds, you know, from this one guy, it's a hell of a lot better than the prison system. They get better food out there. During fires, they get really good food, he was saying. And they make a little bit of money. It's not a lot. It's like $10 a day, right, $10 a day all year round. And then during a wildfire, they get additional $1 per hour when they're actively fighting a fire.

But the other thing that is great is they're learning and they could, can they be firefighters when they're out of prison? Is that something that they?

Yeah. So it's the program's really awesome because when they get out, they're eligible to get

their record completely expunged, which makes it a lot easier to get any type of job.

But they also have programs like Ventura County has one that'll take them in to help them

actually become official firefighters when they get out.

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