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fundraiser and all funds raised we'll go right back to helping First Responders dealing with mental health issues I think we're often doubt the hand of when someone needs help they call 9-1-1 but who do we call when we ourselves need help there's no 912 so the first responder family is very tight-knit but there's still a misnomer that it's not okay to ask for help we often get from the public that while you signed up for this this is what you should expect but our families and our wives and our significant others didn't sign up for it yet when we're at work uh we disassociate ourselves from our families we're gone for days at a time we go on college that the average person may not see and we do it over a 30-year span but we're not the only ones affected by that our family members are directly affected by that I feel it's really important to address mental health challenges for First Responders because they encounter a type of complex trauma that the average person doesn't I mean they have to show up on someone's worst day and it might be their worst day too so they kind of stuff a lot of that down and the culture isn't necessarily conducive to sharing the kind of stuff that's going on in your head so yeah making just being able to make it okay to talk about like breaking that stigma around getting help and asking for help or even just having a conversation at the kitchen table it's why we're here so when we do events like this and we can get a thousand or two thousand First Responders together well they may feel like they're isolated they may feel like they're alone but suddenly when you surround yourself around one to two thousand other First Responders that you have a lot in common with your families can bond with one another and you can relate to one another suddenly there's that family Dynamic and you're no longer an island you're amongst a group of personnel and people that can all relate and can all cope with one another so we have three bouts for the youngsters from Villa Park boxing here in Pasadena we also have five bouts uh from all different fire departments and police departments we have Gardena PD we have Long Beach Fire Department we have Santa Barbara County Fire Department we have Ventura City Fire Department and we also have Pasadena Police Department and Pasadena fire department so I love boxing and one of the guys from my other department I used to work for wanted to wanted to fight and so I said well I'm not going to do it in an alley I'm an adult now and so what we did is we did it for charity and so I said hey let's let's do a let's do a boxing match let's get it done and we did our first one where very successful and here we are today with our second one when it comes to us we got to think about what is going to draw in First Responders what is going to get people here boxing we absolutely love it it's something that is just it's in us and quite frankly we love physical activity we got into a very physical job we like the adrenaline rushes and this kind of just ties in perfectly with it along with the competitiveness of boxing watching these badges get in there whether it be a firefighter correctional officer police officer what it may be I'm gonna be a little bit more Stern on them than they should be I've kind of talked to some of these guys and they should be working on their p's and q's it takes a lot to put together an event like this we've been working on this well since 2019 we had to hit pause for a couple years because of covid so we've really been chomping at the bit to get this going but it's enabled us to really kind of set a foundation with all the different departments allowed us to do a little bit more Outreach and allowed us to make some more connections with other organizations who do what we do places like first responder Wellness places like next rung who really have that that lens on taking care of the mental health of First Responders really what kicked this all off is in 2017 the department that I started with we lost Five Guys in two and a half years to Suicide so in in the fire service and in the first responder service what we're seeing is we're losing more of our people to their own hand than we are actually to the job so that's really launched us into action to to tackle this issue within the people that we work beside to look around and see the support of all those around us that's what we're here for we just want uh to really let people know what we do and who we are so that we can continue to help the people that we work beside every single day we walk away from each one of these events with you know new friendships new relationships and strengthening relationships that we've already had you know creating relationships with agencies that are you know helping to put this event on which is tremendous we just love it and we love being a part of the community we generated this thing out of you know kind of thin air um in a mission to address these issues that we felt like were you know kind of plaguing the fire service or not being addressed in the fire service and so you know that was our Genesis and how do we again how do we help these people what can we do um a place what would we want and just a place to talk someone that you know that we are comfortable with and so how do we create that we created that and how has that expanded what's the next step and that's counseling and that's true inpatient treatment center stays and so how did we facilitate that we need to raise money we became a non-profit so you know really been on the ground floor with next wrong um but it really stems from my my career path I've been in the fire service for almost 14 years now and so um having seen it firsthand knowing that you know that it's a vital resource that needs to be there um it just to me it makes sense it just comes together and I'm happy that we're here that the organization is present that the lives that we've been able to touch and 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