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Brigade members pictured from left to right: David Barton, James Dragonas, Gabe Frolick, Michael Capello, Shea Broussard and David Hertz. Photo Credit: Clay Bush https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/0dc43eb2-5026-44aa-820c-f58a5180884e/Photo+credit_Keegan+Gibbs__3581.jpeg Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready The Palisades Fire coming down Las Flores Canyon headed to the ocean at 11:33pm on January 7, 2025. When the community brigade was evacuating people in this neighborhood late in the night this is what they saw advancing towards them. Photo Credit: Keegan Gibbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/c3101cd8-7fc2-430c-a9fb-764e69e320d7/IMG_8559_connor+nelsen.jpg Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready A home burns in the The Palisades Fire on January 7, 2025. Photo Credit: Connor Nelsen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/7afd7782-b284-4901-9e1a-33f599edc1a8/IMG_6688_clay+bush+copy.jpeg Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready The Palisades Fire burns into the hills of the Pacific Palisades on January 7, 2025. Photo Credit: Clay Bush https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/e35c27ad-f2eb-4d9e-84a0-6362331f68cd/2025.PalisadesFire-0561_clay+bush.jpg Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready Homes burning along the PCH on Jan 7, 2025. Photo Credit: Clay Bush https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/6cf50216-0b7e-442d-8442-6e860e48fb34/IMG_2192_tyler_hauptman+copy.jpeg Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready A community brigade member watches the fire burning in Temescal Canyon from Tyler Hauptman’s backyard on Jan 7, 2025. Photo Credit: Tyler Hauptman https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/ffef53a9-ce11-4826-8241-fbc4c9f4b341/Photo+credit_Connor+Nelson_3.png Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready A community brigade refurbished Type 6 truck from Point Dume, Malibu. Evacuations were the number one priority for the brigade on the night of the fire. Photo Credit: Connor Nelsen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/300d13c0-2e81-4a3a-a63a-635ec581a76f/Photo+credit_Connor+Nelson3.png Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready Community brigade member Aron Marderosian laying out hoses to get ready to put out hotspots. Photo Credit: Connor Nelsen https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/c359c763-5cab-4ed6-85b3-e7d4d9f26bfb/connornelsen+copy.png Palisades Fire | Episode 1: Get the Boys Ready Aron Marderosian (left) and Keegan Gibbs (right) during the early hours of the Palisades Fire. Photo Credit: Connor Nelsen https://www.wavemakermedia.org/palisades-fire/episode-2 daily 0.75 2026-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/00ca1324-d9cc-4bf4-b706-42b39c493840/CB_011525_PallisadesFire_Jake_Burghart.jpg Palisades Fire | Episode 2: Don't Call Us Heroes Community Brigade members survey some of the 23,000 acres scorched by the Palisades Fire in Santa Monica Mountains in the days after the Palisades Fire.  From left to right Brigade members: Charlie Wilkinson, co-founder Tyler Hauptman, co-founder Keegan Gibbs, Michael Capello, and a first responder from Colorado. Photo credit: Jake Burghart https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/9c651f3d-7812-43be-87f6-6ab094c4ba0a/Screenshot+2025-12-05+at+10.40.07%E2%80%AFAM.png Palisades Fire | Episode 2: Don't Call Us Heroes Around 75 percent of the Pacific Palisades was lost in the Palisades Fire on Jan 7, 2025. 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Photo credit: Adriana Cargill https://www.wavemakermedia.org/sandcastles/episode-2 daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/f0a9bf2b-8c54-4352-a417-5411317febf1/IMG_3567+2_dru+copy.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 2: This Kingdom Is Mine The Woolsey Fire approaching Point Dume. Photo credit: Dru Jacobson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/0e444d74-996d-4fe8-a09c-9b37fc395567/E08B4243-E6CC-4024-8863-0EEBA0586378_1_105_c.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 2: This Kingdom Is Mine Tom Runyon pictured in 1956 in Malibu hanging on the wall in the Old Place Restaurant. Photo credit: Adriana Cargill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/356e88ca-baa7-49f5-a251-b0112e29ead8/Custom+Text-8.jpg Sandcastles | Episode 2: This Kingdom Is Mine Sam McGee fighting the Woolsey Fire. Photo credit: Jack Platner. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/75230e20-f95d-4e12-83fd-b4f78598eab2/Custom+Text-2302482662871.jpg Sandcastles | Episode 2: This Kingdom Is Mine Devastation in the aftermath of the Woolsey Fire. Photo credit: Jack Platner. https://www.wavemakermedia.org/sandcastles/episode-3 daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/79f71b53-45eb-4f51-a553-46891e0722ec/IMG_3583+2.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 3: Under Siege Keegan Gibbs standing in front of the remains of his family home on Saturday, Nov 10, 2023 directly after the Woolsey Fire front had passed. Photo credit: Dru Jacobson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/cbbec7b2-0b61-45a3-8afe-16eae47d1bf6/unnamed.png Sandcastles | Episode 3: Under Siege Point Dume Bombers in the lot next to Keegan Gibbs’s house on Dume Drive. From Left: Layne Stratton, Jack Platner, Beau Biglow, Leo Harrington, Sam McGee, Alec Houge, Riley Smoller, Andrew Jacobson, Nick Nushawg, Jake Kelley, Keegan Gibbs, Ryland Lancaster, Robert Spangle. Photo Credit: Keegan Gibbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/ed970f07-5b36-48a7-90b4-fb58a54734f6/Custom+Text-42216.jpg Sandcastles | Episode 3: Under Siege Sam McGee flanked by two Point Dume Bombers listen to instructions on the radios Briana Strange brought. Photo credit: Jack Platner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/262ad3d4-e4f4-4c93-b5fb-0bc352fcc08f/Custom+Text-788285917.jpg Sandcastles | Episode 3: Under Siege Point Dume Bombers fighting the Woolsey Fire on Saturday Nov 10, 2018. 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Photo credit: Jack Platner https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/d075c727-e4f4-41d8-bd1c-910ae104626e/IMG_3660+2+copy.jpg Sandcastles | Episode 4: Under Siege, Part 2 Locals gathered at the Point Dume Relief Center, all power to the Point was out at the time of this photo. Photo credit: Dru Jacobson. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/8fae0cfc-868e-4cf0-89bd-c7b07fe277b5/IMG_3644+2.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 4: Under Siege, Part 2 Briana Strange and Tyler Hauptman ran the gas corner at the Point Dume Relief Center. Photo credit: Brianna Strange https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/b0be4830-b856-4284-b620-039edeb1c3c1/The+Point+Dume+Bombers+go+for+a+surf+to+celebrate+the+end+of+the+Woolsey+Fire_photo+credit+Robert+Spangle.jpg Sandcastles | Episode 4: Under Siege, Part 2 The Point Dume Bombers go for a surf to celebrate the end of the Woolsey Fire. Photo credit: Robert Spangle https://www.wavemakermedia.org/sandcastles/episode-5 daily 0.75 2025-12-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/05dc905d-ac41-4dc7-99a4-bed35687afb7/156256B6-5960-436C-BA94-980F5F85637F_1_105_c.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 5: Community Brigade Assistant Chief Drew Smith with Los Angeles County Fire Department. Photo Credit: Adriana Cargill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/bdde1272-35cc-4a0d-9a97-232eb36440e5/Keegan+Gibbs+home+destroyed%2C+the+studio+pristine_Photo+credit+Keegan+Gibbs.png Sandcastles | Episode 5: Community Brigade Keegan Gibbs’ home was destroyed by the Woolsey Fire but the recording studio was left untouched thanks to home hardening. Photo credit: Keegan Gibbs https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/8b56188b-1295-488a-a6a0-5ee1e7eda5a8/Point+Dume+Community+Brigade+2019_Photo+credit+Keegan+Gibbs.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 5: Community Brigade The Point Dume Community Brigade in 2019. Photo Credit: Keegan Gibbs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/c692f22f-ab75-4704-a3bf-fe4a91f536d2/A379DF34-6ABE-49F7-A717-202CC379E321_1_105_c.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 5: Community Brigade Malibu West Fire Brigade Members Walter Shirk and Bobby Milstein demonstrate how to use wildfire pumps. Keegan Gibbs is also here on the right wearing green pants and a white shirt. Photo credit: Adriana Cargill. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/07977200-9103-43b0-904b-72d29eeacd8d/CABE19FA-D5DD-4B53-9AC6-0B38C76D5E82_1_105_c.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 5: Community Brigade Malibu West Brigade members gather in their leader Dermot Stoker’s driveway. Stoker is seen in the far left in a white shirt giving orders for the day’s training. There is a mix of citizens and LA County firefighters at the training pictured here. Photo Credit: Adriana Cargill https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/617ad511d812fc6a3ebc15de/4868c7d0-af8a-4453-aa31-074487712a1f/8AAC44FB-EF01-45A4-B312-7F7C82D370D7_1_105_c.jpeg Sandcastles | Episode 5: Community Brigade Host, writer and producer of this series Adriana Cargill took this photo outside of her home in LA looking over the Santa Monica Mountains at the Woolsey Fire the night it hit Point Dume. For reference, Point Dume is 22 miles away from where this photo was taken. 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