Jose Lopez who’s family owns a local Restaurant called El Publito in downtown Gig Harbor, Wa is behind the group that came together some months ago to start a fire department in his childhood town of Ayutla near Guadalajara in Mexico. Some months ago He had the idea and through mutual Firefighter friends he brought the Executive Director of Firefighters crossing borders.org, Joel Schwarz and President of Tapfire.org Paul Wright together to begin the process for starting this department. Both Tapfire.org and our own organization FFCB have history and experience with departments in mexico. We were a good combination and over the next few months worked through Jose with his governmental contacts and has prepared the infrastructure needed to take the next step.