-: Every disaster is different.
One of the great things I love about this work
is no day is the same.
Literally, no day is the same.
So, currently, as we speak,
we've got tornadoes in Mississippi,
we're recovering from tornadoes in Texas.
We are diligently watching fire weather in California.
Last year, with wild fires in California,
that was a huge reunification effort.
Had a couple thousand folks
that we were able to wittle down so that was good.
Michael, Florence,
those were huge reunification efforts for us as well.
We also tend to provide some level of support
in mass casualty incidents.
'Cause folks are gonna start calling
because they think their loved one went to that concert
or attends that school or whatever.
People call Red Cross and we go to work.
The problem is, honestly,
when you're working for profit
or when you're in the military or any of that kind of stuff,
when somebody is not performing
you can do something about it.
You can suspend them, you can fire them,
you can do all sorts of stuff
because not only are they working because they love it
but they work because they need to live.
None of that holds true for volunteers.
We're not getting paid.
So as a volunteer Manager or a volunteer Supervisor,
you really have to understand
what motivates you're work force.
And, it's different for every single person.
And it can be different even for one person
on successive days or weeks or months.