Pilot Season: L.A. Wildfire Recovery & Other Disaster Prevention & Recovery
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Throughout our Beta, focused on the LA Wildfire Recovery & other Disaster Prevention & Recovery, we will share interviews with relevant experts, community leaders and affected citizens to provide an inside look at disaster management from their unique perspective. Viewers are encouraged to share their reactions, ideas for solving the blockers presented in each episode, and any tips and services they can offer in our chat, idea boards and forums.
Additional Episodes
Guest Expert, Margo Robbins, Executive Director of Cultural Fire Management Council shares the ancient Indigenous practice of cultural and prescribed burns and how it can prevent wildfires, restore ecosystems, and heal communities.
Special Guest and Altadena resident, Carine Yahinian, bravely shares her family’s journey of navigating recovery, the urgent need for a simple, clear support guide, and her call to action for a better, community-informed system.
Guest Experts, Chef Wing Lam, Kristin Martin & American Red Cross OC Heroes Honoree, Chef Robert DuVall share their inspiring story of how OC Chefs Relief Fund started as two-week grassroots mission and grew into a three-month effort delivering 10K meals and supplies to frontline workers, wildfire victims. They also share the value of a platform like Community, Serve Us in supporting these large volunteer efforts.
Guest Expert Scott Winter shares his experience helping to curate the Paradise Fire Recovery and discusses how immersive storytelling and nonpartisan collaboration can shape disaster recovery.
Guest Expert Asher Jay illuminates the value of Community, Serve Us and the use of a crowdsourcing platform to support disaster recovery & preparedness and outlines the need for radical collaboration as climate change accelerates.
Guest Expert Carlo Saggese provides an enlightening, not-to-be-missed overview of how technology innovators can combat wildfires, support disaster relief, and collaborate with Community, Serve Us to create lasting solutions.
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Access a growing collection of resources, articles, and how-to guides designed to help individuals and communities navigate recovery and rebuild stronger. From mental health and insurance tips to FEMA and rebuilding processes, we’re curating the most helpful tools in one place. We’re continuously updating this library as new services and information become available.
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Community, Serve Us Creator/Executive Producer, Danielle Busko, Featured in VoyageLA.
March 17, 2026
Community, Serve Us Creator/Executive Producer, Danielle Busko said she was humbled and honored when VoyageLA invited her to share the story of Community, Serve Us in the March 16, 2026 edition of the online magazine.
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When the System Fails: How Communities Become the First Line of Defense in Disasters
March 26, 2026
Recent Disasters Have Shown Community Infrastructure is the Real First Line of Defense
When disaster strikes, we instinctively turn to official systems — emergency alerts, coordinated response teams, and government support. There is a deep, almost invisible trust when something goes wrong at scale, a belief that there is a structure designed to protect us.
The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires showed us a harder truth: even well-resourced systems can lag behind fast-moving realities.
And when they do, something more powerful steps in: people and communities
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