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Welcome back. while ukrainian forces are defending against russia s invasion, civilians are left to deal with the aftermath. ukraine s fire and rescue teams have come under siege like everyone else, leaving them with damaged equipment. a california man led a group of firefighters on their mission to bring their life saving skills and badly needed equipment to these war torn cities of ukraine. joining me now is eric hilley, the project coordinator for project guardians. eric, thank you so much for getting up bright and early on a sunday for us. tell us about these missions to ukraine, i know you spent a lot of time in particular working in bucha. how many times have you sent people to ukraine and what did you see? well, this was the first mission we sent, we sent 11 firefighters, nine from the united states, one from australia, and one from germany.
One. and i understand, eric, you plan to go back to ukraine at some point. you re back in the u.s. now, but you re going to go back? yes, we have enough funds to launch a second team, which we re working on now. we re continuing to fund-raise. our ultimate goal is to send a total of four teams. so working on that right now and we ll see when we re going to launch them. there is some now that all the team is back, we re going to sit back and do a good after action review to see what we can do to improve and better serve while we re over there. how can people help who may be watching at home saying, wow, this is incredible. what can people do for you? we have a fund-raising page set up, under task force joint guardian. you can donate there. and also if you re a firefighter with equipment you want to donate, you can reach out to us on facebook, on project joint guardian. we actually had 26 pallets of cargo that were donated technical rescue equipment from