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Last name Brown b r o w n. I am a 15 year Disaster Action Team member with the American Red cross, and I'm also a real estate developer with, uh, New Life Global Development. I've studied shelter readiness, and we were here opening up the shelters during during the fires. Uh, I've been in real estate development all my life from Chicago. Uh, we also have a nonprofit that we support, uh, people in disasters, homeless food distribution with our nonprofit called Project New Life. I'm not officially in an Altadena resident. However, our friends and our families have come together and asked me to lead the way with helping resources Sources. Since I spend a lot of time in Altadena, Sereno area, Monrovia, and mostly orange, I mean Orange County, LA County, um, and since we are a resource agency, they've chosen me to be sort of spokespersons of several families that, uh, that live in Altadena. Well, you know, we as, uh, red crossers, as we call ourselves, we learn from every disaster because every disaster is is a different creature. It's different resources, different needs. However, a lot of people don't realize how strong and how deep the American Red cross is. It's not just about blood donations and and that sort of thing. Uh, we respond to a single family house fires, uh, on a daily basis, uh, 30 times. It can be up to 30 times a month. You know, I'm in, uh, Metro chapter T3. We call it, um, and it's more than just what people see, uh, in the media with the American Red cross. That's why I encourage people go to an, uh, a volunteer orientation and find out what they could do. You could tailor it to your life, but the training that you get is what's needed. And I think a lot of people are now seeing how the American Red cross do their first responder training. We train with firefighters. We train with the police officer, California Emergency Response Team, emergency management department. We get first level skill, uh, at no charge. When you volunteer for the American Red cross, it can just be answering phones. It can just be setting up a shelter two hours a month, you know, two hours a week, you know, just going and greeting people. It's more than just putting the blanket around, which is very satisfying, you know, to be able to comfort people that are burned out of their homes, but to also stay behind after the fire captain has rendered cold blue and all the smoke started to dissipate. What about the devastating family? So we put them up in hotels. We'll put them up in a shelter, a hotel. In this instance, there was a lot of Airbnb being used. But not only that, there's financial support. A lot of people don't realize it, and a lot of people also think that the American Red cross funds are tied to other governmental agencies and departments, and that's not the case. This is all American Red cross as a whole unit, a whole organization. So I would say I always encourage people go to American Red cross Org and look at how you can spice up your life even to deploy. You don't have to be out there in the mud, but if you wanted to deploy to Texas about a flood or something like that, you could just be manning the phones. One time I couldn't deploy, like for the floods that were in Texas back in, I think there was like 2017 or the floods in Texas. I couldn't physically deploy. But I went to channel seven news and helped them with the phone bank fundraising. And within 40 minutes, we raised $250,000. By me being with the anchors. And that was really fun. You know, being with all of the anchors of channel seven news. And that's when this whole Rescue Rodney thing came out, because, um, uh, Wendy, I was supposed to take Wendy to dinner, and they told me I needed to deploy to the studios. And I'm like, what? Are you going to be on camera? Get yourself together. We need. If you're not going to Texas, you need to help us raise money for it. So we're there. And Wendy says, that's okay, cancel dinner. You know, you're just a regular rescue. Rodney being a little condescending, right? So when I got there, Mark Brown came up and he says, okay, tell yourself. I said, well, you know, tell us about what you do and your name, whatever. And I said, well, first of all, I have to thank, uh, my lovely queen Wendy, uh, for allowing me to cancel our dinner and be here. Although she called me, you told me I'm a you're a regular rescue, Rodney. So go on and do what you do. And he said, and then he's like, we're here with Rescue Rodney. All of a sudden my phone starts blowing up. They were like, oh, you rescue Rodney now, huh? So it's kind of it kind of grew on me. I kind of at first I was like, uh, it was like, no, dude, embrace it. So that's great. If I'm rescue Rodney. And that's the assignment that God has given me, I greatly and humbly accept it. It's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=3.76,359.44"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/transcript/88181/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S2:\u003c/strong\u003e like the CIA. It's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=359.72,360.76"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/transcript/88181/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e like CIA. It's like beep. Beep","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=360.76,362.2"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/transcript/88181/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S3:\u003c/strong\u003e beep beep. It's","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=362.2,363.48"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/transcript/88181/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e like what? Everybody needs to deploy right away. And we need you guys to head over to the studios. And that was great. You know, it builds me in my kingdom building work what I do for God. This is what drives me. Um, and, you know, I was invited to go to an orientation 15 years ago, and the person that invited me never joined, and I got hooked. Right. And it was. It was the way God had led me to do what I want to do. Feeding the homeless, housing the homeless, helping those that are devastating. Being a red crosser has been a part of my life for 15 years. That has given me great hope, resilience, that we can do something just because you think you're one person, you have great value and great impact that you can add just as an individual, especially with an organization behind you like the American Red cross? So go to American Red cross and come and help, uh, in disasters and spice up your life. Travel you. We also international. I spend a lot of time in Africa. This last time. This time earlier this year, I left, um, Tanzania and Kenya and in my condo where I was staying, the Red cross was right next door. I was like, hey, the Red cross is right here. So next, next year when I go back to Africa, I'm looking at going international Red cross. Wow, that's a great question. Thank you for that because a lot of people aren't really looking at that. What we're taking away from this now, I think all of the climate change doubters can now see there's something to this climate change, uh, thing that they're denying 39. After this wildfire and the way that it took this community out, there's no way you can say that you don't need to prepare and look forward to how we can come up with solutions to, uh, to, uh, to, I would say, suppress some of these natural disasters that are happening now. We know about the it's not just watching the fire burn on the two hills over anymore and just thinking, oh, they're just going to put it out. All the communities that are surrounding these hills and these canyons and these valleys have to come together with the emergency, um, the emergency management department, where really all of the, uh, leaders and first responders look to first for instruction. So every community, instead of just building 500 track houses up here, you need to build it with the resiliency and the focus of we could be trapped by fire in this canyon. How do we reconstruct and support our first responders? How do we rebuild and support our fire departments, our law enforcement? How can we build with newer materials to resist the fires, to help people get a chance to get out? Because a lot of people lost their lives because wood goes up like a cinder, like, you know. So now we need to come back with the new technology. Fire resistant. Materials to to give people a chance to really save their communities. How do we look at the forest? Not just clearing the brush around your house ten 20ft. But how about the community? It needs that same focus, needs to be around the community. How do we create that barrier around the community as a whole? And then everybody does it as individual to become more resilient. Do each does does each community that build more than a certain amount of homes? Yeah.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=363.48,606.17"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/transcript/88181/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e Do","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=607.09,607.33"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/transcript/88181/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eSPEAKER_S1:\u003c/strong\u003e they need to have their own volunteer fire department? Yeah. Look at the the the resources that our fire department could not get to. How is it that no one was checking the water hydrants to find out if they're charged with water? I mean, these are things that we can think about long before anything happened. But. And then how do we keep bureaucracy and politics from affecting the way we live in our community? I think that had a big effect on the firefighters. A thousand will hear something about a thousand firefighters were sitting at home ready for the call and didn't get the call. And when when some got to certain areas, there was no water in the hydrant. That's that's not acceptable. And with the technology we have, I guarantee you there's an app that could tell us where the water is. There's an app that could tell us if we're ready to put out fires. So what do we learn from this? We learn preparedness, togetherness, separating from politics and bureaucracy. We have to. And then we also learned that we cannot just rely solely on local law enforcement and local firefighting. We have to train ourselves to protect ourselves. While the first responders are enroute trying to wait for them to get through traffic, trying to wait for them, everybody needs to prepare. Create a go bag. Everybody needs to understand what they need to have in their trunks as a disaster. If you were stuck on the 405 for two days, what would you do? How would you survive? What's in your trunk?  you have plastic bags for ponchos?  you?  you have bathroom tissue? Hey, that becomes very important the first time you get nervous. What? The first thing you want to do. You want to go to potty, right? Listen, think about what would happen. n't. I don't just watch disaster movies. And to mention that I look at it as how I would respond in a disaster. That's how I look at disaster movies. But after walking through the ash piles in Altadena, it was like I was in the disaster movie. It's changed the whole perspective for me, but it's also heightened my senses of how the community and every single household need to be prepared. There should be some sort of community. Uh, just like the homeowners association I mentioned, there should be disaster response Within those policies of you keeping your house nice. And you know this like homeowner associations do. But there needs to be a mandatory evacuation plan, a mandatory protection plan, disaster resilience plan in each and every home. And it should be required. Insurance companies, since they're the ones giving so many issues and don't want to pay for these fires, then make it a requirement for the policies that you're holding to have in there that they know CPR, that they keep there, that they know every four times a year they go out and clear the brush, send in a report with photos, maybe subject them to doing a mandatory two times a year homeowner home inspection Henry to actually see where you are. If you living on a hill and you just worrying about backyard barbecues and you're not seeing that that brush down the hill from you is four feet high, that's material that's going to burn right up to your house. Everyone that owns and then hold owners responsible for a lot of leader community leaders won't hold constituents responsible for keeping their property up to par because they want the vote. But if you educate the homeowners to understand that this is your life that we're talking about, you could lose your life. Um, and everything you own. Another point I'm asking. So many people lost so many things in the fire. Would you go back to your house now and put an heirloom that is a one of a kind in that house? Or would you now keep it in a safe place away from fire? Take a picture of it. Take a picture of the picture of the art and say, this is a copy of the art that I own, but I am not going to keep it in the house so it can burn up, even whether I have insurance on it or not. I don't want to lose it. You're a dignitary that come from another country, and somebody gave you a gift or something from another country that could never be replaced, would you now keep it in a safe, fireproof place, take a photo of it and say, hey, I actually or have a 3D printed one. We have the technology there. Stop keeping all of your heirlooms and your family the one of a kind things you can never replace in a place that could be devastated. So, uh, that's the vision that I have with one to wanting to educate people about disaster preparedness. This have to happen with consortiums of what we're speaking of, of homeowner associations in Altadena, having listening to the voices, looking at the looking at the data and, um, actually holding the government responsible because they're doing so many things, our community leaders, it's difficult for them to always focus on a particular concern of yours and put a budget to it to actually get something done. But there should be, uh, community engagement, offices of community engagement, just like a homeowner association, you can call it the Office of Community Engagement. And who do they engage? This community is engaging our local politicians, our our local, uh, municipalities, the you know, a lot of people don't know, but public public streets and service, the the trash and the public lighting, they have meetings on a regular basis, but nobody really in the homeowners in the community really shows up. It's just them meeting with each other, talking about what they want to do. And then maybe 2 or 3 other representatives of the community come out. But nothing is really we have to take control of our community and we have to hold us responsible. Those that are the biggest benefactors in our community, who's making the most benefit in our community utility companies. Okay. Your so you just showed you just made a profit of $100 billion this year. It should be mandatory. So there needs to be some sort of Senate bill or something that's signed to say there's a percentage of every large benefactor in that community that have to be dedicated to supporting that community and the safety of that community, and they should. It would behoove them not to. You're protecting the community so you can protect your business. This is your cash flow. So why wouldn't you put a half $1 billion into Altadena, Pasadena on the infrastructure? You know, you got you got youth that want to learn to train agriculture. Why aren't they? Why do you wait for the fire department, County fire department to go and clear brush? That should be the the US, the US Conservation Corps, Los Angeles Conservation, Altadena Conservation Corps. Give these kids something to do and pay them and pay them something good so they can learn a trade and then gain some income so they can be the firefighters and the law enforcement and the homeowners and the utility companies that's coming up in this next generation. We have thousands of kids and they're threatening to shut down Job Corps, privatize Job Corps, take the 10,000 kids out there. Let's start protecting our communities, training them on technical type of jobs and community type of positions where we can protect ourselves. But we have to hold the biggest benefactors in our community accountable, and they have to participate in protecting the community from any type of disaster. And, you know, that's how I think that, uh, because we got to go where the money, it takes money to get anything done. Look at the biggest, the deepest pocket holders and say to them, hey, this is our budget. This is what we got to do to protect your interests and you doing business in this. Absolutely. But there's also the technology is here, the type of chemicals like the zeolite that we're using called clinoptilolite zeolite that will take the lead and arsenic and the mercury and asbestos out of the soil without removing the soil and dumping it into some other hazardous. We need to do it this way because a lot of families can't afford to have this soil remediated the way some other families can do so. So we're really hopeful that the community would embrace this research and development on this zeolite product that we have called Clinoptilolite or Absorbsi to really start to to detox so people can, can, can really start to, to rebuild. That's, you know, I think we need to bring the technology we have and the scientific studies that we have. There are so many things that can detoxify the soil, and it doesn't take a lot of long time construction, because now we have model homes that we can put together in modular that can be built in three months, but still wrap it to where it looks like the the heritage of the and maintain the heritage and the historic value of the historic past of the community. Yeah. Lessons. Lessons learned. Um, we need to build, uh, with material that's fire resistant. Because this is not the last time these fires are going to strike up. We need to have, uh, a fund managed maybe by the state that these utility companies are ready to take over where the financing gap of the insurance companies fall short. n't just leave it on the insurance companies. Go to these biggest benefactor once again, utility companies. Have them talk to the utility company and say, look, this is the best we can do. Honest transparency. We're still short $10 billion. You guys made $100 billion over the last sort of. How many years? Come on, fill that gap so we can get this community back up and going. Even better. You're going to make money. We trying to save lives while you're making money. So it it would be. It should be mandatory. And there should be a fund, you know, and these private organizations, foundations, nonprofit organizations, these huge foundations, the carnegies and the the Millikan's, and, you know, the Geffen's, they should come together and create a fund for the resiliency of the community which they live in, and not just put it on the federal government, local law enforcement trying to juggle budgets, playing politics and bureaucracy, stalling things until people die. There's enough knowledge, enough money, and enough technology now to avoid this ever happening again.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=607.33,1364.86"}]},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Auto-generated Index (2025-11-05 21:58:04) [Index]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Introduction and Background","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=0.0,84.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker introduces himself as Rodney Brown, spelling out his last name, and outlines his extensive experience as a Disaster Action Team member with the American Red Cross and as a real estate developer. 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The speaker calls for a shift in mindset from passive observation to proactive planning, highlighting the need for new technologies and community-wide strategies to mitigate the impact of natural disasters.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=454.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Community Preparedness, Infrastructure, and Policy Recommendations","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=600.0,851.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker raises critical questions about community infrastructure, such as the need for volunteer fire departments and the maintenance of essential resources like water hydrants. He critiques the influence of bureaucracy and politics on disaster response and advocates for the use of technology to improve preparedness. The speaker emphasizes the importance of collective responsibility and the need for communities to train themselves in basic disaster response while waiting for first responders.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=600.0,851.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Personal Preparedness and Homeowner Responsibility","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=851.0,878.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker highlights the necessity for individual and household disaster preparedness, including maintaining property, creating evacuation plans, and safeguarding irreplaceable valuables. He suggests that insurance companies require policyholders to demonstrate preparedness and that regular inspections be mandated. The speaker also encourages homeowners to reconsider where they store heirlooms and to use technology to protect important items from loss in disasters.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=851.0,878.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Community Engagement and Accountability","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=878.0,1167.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker advocates for the establishment of community engagement offices to facilitate communication between residents, local politicians, and municipal services. He points out that many community meetings are poorly attended by residents and stresses the need for greater involvement and accountability. The speaker calls for utility companies and other major benefactors to contribute financially to community safety and infrastructure, arguing that their investment is essential for both community well-being and their own business interests.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=878.0,1167.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Technology, Soil Remediation, and Rebuilding","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=1167.0,1254.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker discusses innovative technological solutions for post-disaster recovery, such as using zeolite for soil remediation to remove toxins without displacing soil. He emphasizes the importance of making these solutions accessible to all families, not just those who can afford expensive remediation. The speaker also mentions the potential for rapid construction of modular homes that preserve community heritage, and calls for the integration of new technologies and scientific research into rebuilding efforts.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=1167.0,1254.0"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Final Lessons and Call for Systemic Change","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Title"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=1254.0,1370.34667"},{"id":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679/index/90438/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":[{"type":"TextualBody","value":"The speaker concludes by reiterating the need to build with fire-resistant materials and to establish funds managed by the state and supported by utility companies and large foundations to cover gaps left by insurance. He calls for honest transparency, collective action, and the use of available knowledge, money, and technology to prevent future disasters. The speaker urges all stakeholders, including private organizations and benefactors, to collaborate in creating resilient communities and to move beyond reliance on government and traditional emergency services.","format":"text/plain","label":{"en":["Synopsis"]}}],"target":"https://lapl.aviaryplatform.com/collections/3578/collection_resources/164569/file/299679#t=1254.0,1370.34667"}]}]}]}