That's not an old truck #firetruck #fireman #restmission with guest Sasha Stojanov

All right, Sash, we're in Puerto Rico, man. I can't believe it. I look around and I go, "What? This is different." But yeah, it's Puerto Rico. I've never seen a fire department like this. No. So, your wife was telling me this is this was the obviously one of the original uh one of the original fire departments for Pon. Am I saying that right? Yep. Correct. Pon. And And obviously that that probably wasn't one of the original trucks, but uh Yeah. No, no, not quite. It's too much horsepower in that one. These are definitely the original ones. So it looks like it was open and they came in and red and black stripes was kind of what they had on the So these these colors are the traditional firefighter colors. So you would know if there was a house it would be colored like this. So black and orange and it would you'd know that that's a fireplace in case of an emergency that's they were marked like this. And this particular one is amazing. Look, it has an upstairs. It's Oh, and it goes back. There's the original. Yeah. And there's I don't know if they can see up there. They've got um looks like some of the old uh I would assume fire chiefs or something like that going up for a while. And then uh trucks will be parked right in here wide open and you hear the old fire trucks themselves on horserawn and even by hand. See they would have the wagon there and you have to push it by hand. Check that out. Yeah. Let's check this out over here. Oh, they would just hold the water up. They would hold it by hand and then they pump it. Yep. Yeah. To get around town. So, uh, let's not forget though why we're here. I mean, it's fun to see all of this, but I after talking to Jesse and anybody watched the other videos, uh, Jesse's obviously said you were one of the main sponsors or your company, uh, Founders Fence. So, what what besides your wife being involved, I know you're pretty heavily, um, investing in your time and stuff into this. You're one of the board members along with Yadira and Jesse and and everybody else. What made you want to jump on to this? I mean, you're not from you're not from Puerto Rico. No, definitely not. I'm a bit further south. little bit bit bigger island too. Just a little bit bigger. I think it started when me and Jesse first met. We've always been about giving. Okay. But not just so the Puerto Puerto Rican women obviously that's right. That's what got you in Jesse. Yeah. Yeah. Right. She lied to me somewhere along the line. Maybe drugged me, you know. Maybe gave me too much um empanadas or you know toas or whatever it was. Don't miss the empanadas if you come down here. I mean, I'm I I I think this is the best empanadas we ever had just just the other restaurants. I agree. But I obviously I know your heart's in this. Your heart's in this heavy. You're investing a lot of time and and funds and everything to this. So again, what what drag you in? I think the need, right? Like I think all of us, even in our industry, we're in the service industry. So we're always trying to serve our clients or our customers. And I think Jesse and myself, how we first met was doing volunteer um local missionary work, if you want to call it. So I think the the concept of rest was something that was developed, I want to say nearly 20 years ago. That's how old the concept of rest was. It was formed by Jesse, myself, and a group of young people that just wanted to do something. And our real passion is about helping your neighborhood cuz what's the point? And and there's great, don't get me wrong, there's great organizations across the world that are doing great things in third world countries and stuff like that, but Jess is that my passion is if you don't help your neighbors, if there's a need in your neighborhood and you just want to walk by it or or not even try to help, then we're sort of missing how great America is. on as as you know I'm not from America but I love the country it's become my home and there's

Needs so rest is born out of the necessity of helping your neighborhood rather than okay while other missionaries or other people are helping the world our goal and our dream with rest is to help Americans that need help and that's how it was born and I think people when you said in your neighborhood I think people forget sometimes Puerto Rico is our neighborhood this is we do this is part of the United states and and how easily it is for people to flow back and forth and uh from Puerto Rico and a lot of these people that are here now because of the good you guys are doing um hopefully continue to complete their education, get the medical attention they need uh just for normal uh you know checkups and things like that and then they become a pivotal part of our community, you know, outside of just Puerto Rico, too. So, I was excited to jump on board and see what I could do to help uh myself on this stuff. So, uh, again, this the the donations and the sponsorship from everybody like yourself, I know is a big part to make this happen and probably the reason a lot of us are here today. So, uh, we wanted to say thank you as well, not just your time, but the funds you guys invested into and for everyone that's going to be watching these videos, if you want to get involved, um, even if you want to help donations, like also just hold this thought. It's about your neighborhood. don't don't see a need and don't want to be helped that need because we're all neighbors. We're all humans and I think this will be the first of many hopefully that uh we're all involved in with with rest at the helm. Yep. And from what I've seen it's a lot of hardworking, friendly, um excited people here um to have obviously just you know and just walk up to anybody around here and start a conversation with them and uh you'll find uh just a genuine group of people around Puerto Rico. So uh thanks again. I'm sure we've got a lot more coming in the next week or so. We'll get it out to you guys. Good. I got to keep remembering.