VIDEO: Right now a team of first responders is on their way to help with the search and rescue efforts in Ukraine.
One of them is a firefighter from San Diego County who helped make the mission possible.
"It's to help our fellow firefighters over there. That's what this is all about," said Eric Hille, an engineer with San Miguel Fire Rescue.
Since the war began, the House of Ukraine has received tons of donations from medical equipment and military gear to clothes and diapers, but not much has been for Ukrainian firefighters.
That's where Hille saw a chance to help.
âThese are people that are on the frontlines that could have fled and they didnât. They still stayed and kept their oath to protect their cities but nobody was sending them anything so thatâs how this mission got started," he said.
