A Williams Sonoma employee helps us pack Strike Team Kits during the Glass Fire / Image: Iren Sophia / 2020
We equip our volunteer firefighters with the basics – so they can do the extraordinary
Imagine this.
You’re a volunteer firefighter battling a catastrophic wildfire on the other side of the county.
When your pager buzzed, you kissed your spouse goodbye, raced to the station, and jumped on an engine. That was three days ago.
You’ve been living on protein bars and catnaps ever since and now your strength is waning – but your neighbors’ homes are burning, so you forge on.
Now imagine what a nutritious meal, a hot cup of coffee, and a cold drink would do for your spirit.
We did. It’s called a Strike Team Comfort Kit and we’ve distributed them to every fire department in Sonoma County with a volunteer program. Now we’re delivering them to volunteer fire departments in Napa and Mendocino Counties – and beyond.
Since 2020, Volunteer Fire Foundation has donated over 90 strike team kits that contain coolers, portable cook systems, high-quality dehydrated meals, coffee, healthy snacks, head lamps and more.
Help us put 64 more kits on engines
In some ways, it’s a small gesture. But when the stakes are this high and conditions this rough, we believe you can’t put a price on morale.
During the 2020 Glass Fire, Two Rock volunteer firefighter Justin Cook was a member of a mostly-volunteer Sonoma County task force that spent two weeks out on the line. Each morning, he tucked into his Strike Team Care Kit to prepare coffee for his crewmates, earning him the nickname The Barista.
These kits were created with the generous support of corporate partners like Williams Sonoma and Sports Basement and private donors like you.
Strike Team Kit Partners
