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Team Rubicon Clockwise from top left: former British soldier Matt Fisher assists rebuilding in Nepal; the organisation’s warehouse of supplies; a Team Rubicon medic in Mozambique last March for Operation Macuti Light; planning relief in the typhoon-hit Northern Mariana Islands in the Pacific in 2018 52 THE RED BULLETIN
TEAM RUBICON (3), GETTY IMAGES (1) TEAM RUBICON RESPONDED TO 310 DISASTERS ACROSS THE GLOBE – FROM THE BAHAMAS TO YORKSHIRE – IN 2019 ALONE Wood says, “but often people’s vehicles are destroyed, or they’ll be hesitant to leave their home because of looters. Half the people we were treating had horrific crush injuries and couldn’t walk to a hospital. We were pushing out into these parts of the city and treating people on sight.” On January 23, just 11 days after the quake, the Haitian government declared the end of the search-andrescue phase of the relief operation. But Wood’s team would stay 20 days, only leaving when it became clear that other agencies were better equipped to deal with the longer-term fallout. KICKING DISASTERS IN THE TEETH Wood and McNulty’s experiences had instilled in them a determination to keep helping the vulnerable, so Team Rubicon was formed then and there. If the relief operation had taught them one thing, it was that as military veterans they had much to offer. In the decade since Haiti, Team Rubicon has gone from strength to strength. The organisation responded to 310 disasters across the globe – from the Bahamas to Mozambique, Indonesia to Yorkshire – in 2019 alone. Today, its staff, whom Team Rubicon jokingly urges to “Sign up. Get trained. Kick disasters in the teeth”, has grown to an estimated 105,000 volunteers; 75 per cent of these are either military veterans or still in active duty, and 20 per cent are fire, medical or law enforcement professionals. Growing the organisation and proving it was worthy of investment – those onboard now include Carhartt, Bank of America and Microsoft – was a long, slow process. Instrumental to Team Rubicon’s journey was Hurricane Sandy, the 2012 disaster that cost 223 lives and caused more than $70 billion in damage across the Bahamas, Greater Antilles, US and Canada. The team set to work clearing houses in one of the hardest-hit areas, New York City – an affluent metropolis that was a stark contrast to Haiti. “We slept in a warehouse in Brooklyn,” Wood says. “We could walk up the street, covered in mud, get an ice-cold beer, and it was like the hurricane had never hit.” Despite the home comforts, Team Rubicon was focused on assisting the city’s more exposed citizens. “There was a high population of firefighters and police officers [in the area we were working in],” says Wood. “People who had to put on the uniform every day and go help someone else while their home was rotting.” By mucking out their homes, Wood’s team was paying back some of this service. Team Rubicon’s desire to help those most in need is innate. “We always direct our aid to the most vulnerable people, and that doesn’t necessarily mean where the most damage is,” says Wood. “We go street by street, documenting the destruction. This is then mapped and combined with data sets like the social vulnerability index, flood plain levels, crime levels – any demographic information we can get. From that, we see who the most vulnerable people are.” If Sandy was the event that put Team Rubicon on the map, 2017’s Hurricane Harvey tested its abilities. When Harvey hit Houston, the team deployed more than 2,000 volunteers from nine forward operating bases covering almost 200 miles. As part of its response, Team Rubicon bought its own boats and sent them down to fish survivors from the water. As a result of the rescue and clear-up operation, it was responsible for putting more than 1,000 families back in their homes. Then, in 2019, Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas, becoming one of the most powerful recorded in the Atlantic Ocean, with winds peaking at 300kph. Team Rubicon deployed to the islands the day after the storm hit. THE RED BULLETIN 53
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