Disaster Response

Just some of the ways we serve.

• Incident Management. Our ICS-trained Greyshirts devise action plans amidst chaos and lack of direction, ensuring our efforts are as efficient and impactful as possible.
• Site Surveys. We digitally analyze the damage done and take stock of the impact on the home, community, and state to fuel our service response and immediate next steps.
• Disaster Mapping and Work Order Management. We carefully track and communicate what’s happening on the ground and what support our team is giving, so that affected communities can access this public information immediately and spend less time and energy on recovery grants later.
• Debris Management. Our heavy-equipment Greyshirts get to work clearing the stuff that doesn’t belong—fallen trees, water, house debris, and more—to return the area to normal.
• Hazard Mitigation. We take any and all steps available to reduce the impact of future disasters, whether that means creating fire breaks, clearing potential floor debris, or anything else that could possibly help.
• Expedient Home Repair. In the immediate aftermath of a disaster and before skilled labor arrives on the scene, our Greyshirts do all they can to repair homes to a stable and livable condition—quickly, effectively, and entirely for free.
• Volunteer Management. Our Greyshirts are a force to be reckoned with, but they’re not the only ones eager to support. We help communities prepare and deploy their local troops, even if they’re not wearing grey shirts.
• Emergency Medicine. We deploy our emergency response and medical experts to sites that need it, triaging care, organizing patient transport, and delivering trauma stabilization.
• Demolition. Tearing down someone’s home is heartbreaking, but sometimes it’s the only way to make space for something better, stronger, and safer. We perform demolition services and remove building debris on structures that can’t be salvaged or repaired.
• Exercise Services. Using the Homeland Security Exercise and Evaluation Program methodology, we help communities practice for numerous threats, develop and test plans, policies, and procedures, and enhance their ability to effectively respond and recover.