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upon a community network comprised of members from all walks of life who are committed to the cause of helping others when help is
needed, at any place, any where, and any time.
Each member of San Diego Volunteers is dedicated to the mission of prevention and assisting in stopping the severity of any new disaster,
such as the disaster experienced during Firestorm 2003.
San Diego Volunteers is dedicated to preserving the safety of those living in or visiting our community, as well as the protection of the
environment which includes natural and man-made resources. To accomplish this goal San Diego Volunteers utilizes and trains its personnel in
areas of Prevention, Fire Suppression, Search, Rescue, and Medical Emergency Services.
The mission of volunteer service has been part of America since the American Revolution. What makes our nation great is the strength of
the individual to have selfless sacrifice in pursuit of serving others. San Diego Volunteers is a non profit organization comprised of local citizens
with one goal in mind. That goal is to help when help is needed, and to assist any person regardless of cast, creed, gender, color, or religion.
This organization is dedicated to those heroes who cared so passionately regarding the protection of their fellow neighbors, that they lost
their lives here in San Diego during Firestorm 2003, and in New York City, the Pentagon, and Pennsylvania on 9/11. It is this type of passion
in the service of others that continues to cause the ranks of these heroes today.
surrounding communities. San Diego Volunteers assists in the preparation and training of its members to act as an effective, additional layer
of emergency services, that is intended to assist San Diego Counties EMS during times of crisis in the areas of: search, rescue, medical, and
fire prevention and suppression.
As residents of New York City experienced during the terrorist attacks of 9/11/2001, the heroics of the cities EMS personnel were
demonstrated when hundreds of EMS personnel perished in the collapse of the Twin Towers. In San Diego County during the wild fires of
2003, the counties EMS system found its resources over tasked. It is the purpose of San Diego Volunteers to have a contingency of
volunteers trained to assist the professional EMS personnel of San Diego County during future times of crisis.
Today, San Diego Volunteers is proud to be affiliated partners with USA Freedom Corps, USA Senior Corps, Volunteer Match,
Volunteer San Diego, and Get To Give, and can be found hosted on each of their organizations web sites.
one firefighter, displacing entire families, and changing thousands of lives forever, numerous citizens not associated, attached, or affiliated
with emergency management agencies made attempts to control numerous fires, hot spots, and flare ups throughout the county of San
Diego and its surrounding communities. Regardless of the potential threat to their own safety these people took it upon themselves to assist
where emergency services could not due to the counties resources being over tasked.
Don Mason, Roger Ponce, and USMC Gunnery Sgt. Dan Nila were just a few of the dozens of San Diego County residents who found
themselves working together along numerous areas of Interstate 15, extinguishing flare ups and protecting neighboring structures that had
been evacuated. Subsequently, it was determined that the possibility of an event similar to the wildfires that struck San Diego county, could
possibly reoccur in the future. Additionally, the fact that the counties emergency services might once again find itself over tasked, as with
smaller communities located throughout the country, a volunteer agency with trained members in the areas of emergency services could
beneficially serve as an additional layer of protection to assist San Diego Counties Emergency Management Services.
Today San Diego Volunteers is an organization that looks towards the future in the service and protection of San Diego County and its
surrounding communities.
The members of San Diego Volunteers are from all walks of life, whether as a white collar or blue collar worker, student or unemployed, all of
the members of San Diego Volunteers look towards the protection of their community. For a detailed list of all services that San Diego
Volunteers provides utilize the
