Woolsey was no exception.
As Gibbs puts it, The Woolsey Fire ignited a primal and ineffable sense of purpose within us.
It summoned the resilience of generations before usthose who always took care of their own.
Photo: Courtesy of Jake Burghart
Things were becoming clear.
So how would we, as a community, reframe our relationship with the inevitable presence of wildfire?
The program is the first of its kind in the nation.
Members of the Community Brigade, a cowboy collective of friends, neighbors, artists, and parents from the Malibu area.
The level of devastation Los Angeles has just experienced is hard for any of us to comprehend.
It still feels impossible to put into words something that weve barely been able to process.
But what I do know is this: To our town, the Community Brigade was invaluable.
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Now that the active fire has passed, the Brigade is hard at work with community recovery.
I follow along for the day as they do some tactical patrol.
The recent fires have, for lack of a better term, created trauma bonds.
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
The mission of the Brigade is to empower people to become their own heroesstarting at home.
It begins with mitigating structural vulnerabilities, preparing diligently, and fostering resilience among neighbors.
The Community Brigade program is run on volunteers, and funded by donations.
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Gabriel Frolick, surveying the damage to a street in the Palisades.
6:30 a.m. at the Incident Command Post on Zuma Beach.
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photo: Courtesy of Jake Burghart
Michael Capello
Photo: Courtesy of Gabriel Frolick
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Gabriel Frolick, surveying the damage to a street in the Palisades.
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
6:30 a.m. at the “Incident Command Post” on Zuma Beach.
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
Photographed by Emma Marie Jenkinson
