Who We Are and What We Do

In 2000, a handful of Gig Harbor (Washington) firefighters began gathering gear and supplies unusable in the United States, and loaded it -- destined for Tecate, Mexico. The members drove their personal vehicles some 1,300 miles across the border. For the Mexican firefighters, it was the mother load of firefighting provisions, if fact, most of the gear was better than their own frontline arsenal. During the same trip, firefighters and medical workers also receive operational fire ground training as well. “It’s about firefighters helping their brothers and sisters,” said trip organizer Lt. Joel Schwarz. “I believe they truly appreciated our efforts” he added.

Over the next 8 years we have grown and developed relationships with several Cities and emergency service groups in Mexico. Due to your generosity we provide equipment and apparatus no longer usable in the US, but able to continue saving lives elsewhere.

Tecate remains our primary contact. Through Tecate FD we have seen much equipment get to smaller departments within the region and Baja. Take a look at the departments we currently have contact with.

We are working hard to bring area departments together to share resources and to bring US departments around to help us assist our brothers and sisters across the border.