 Hi, I'm Chris Ponce with the Cal OES Southern Response Branch. I've been with Cal OES a little over eight years now. Being in response operations, I live for the response portion of it and really getting to the incident command post or county or city emergency operations center to ground information and bridge those gaps between federal and state aides and programs. I love my job because I get to live and work in the community. My children are all born here. You know, it's Californians working for Californians and at the end of the day our goal is to help end any of that human suffering that comes from these disasters. But mostly it's what state assets can we bring to bear to support the operation and that's all going to be dependent on what the need is. I love being behind the scenes, knowing that our efforts and being able to provide support to our first responders that are out there. That's the honor and the privilege that I get to have as a Cal OES employee. I'm Chris Ponce and I am Cal OES.