Fleet Week Patrol 10/9/2010

Saturday October 9th 2010, we the San Francisco Guardian Angels and the Contra Casta Guardian Angels will be doing Fleet Week patrols today. We do this every year to make sure it is a SAFE event, for this is Fleet Week where thousands of people will be attending. There is Navel Ships in the Bay, there is the Blue Angels air show, and there is food and drinks along with souvenirs stands at this event. Back at the HQ we all prepare and get ready for one of our biggest events of the year, we change into our uniforms, we prebrief, we pick our teams. J.D. (SF Chapter Leader) will lead team one, and Spider (CC Chapter Leader) will lead team two, we have first aid techs, we will be using all radios for communication.




Now we march, we march all the way to the piers, we get to Pier 39, we begin our patrol for safety. Everything looks fine, and everyone is having fun, but we stay focus on this patrol. We march all the way to the end of the air show, some people drinking but responsibility, no drugs though, some people riding there bikes through crowds, not safe, so we ask them to walk them.







Next we break, for bathroom, for smoking, for water, and for a moment to rest because this is alot walking. Now we are ready to get back on patrols, both teams, one behind the other, but with distance apart, we then march to the Submarine that the have at one of the piers to check this area. This was a good idea, because if you where in uniform you could go inside the SUB for free, so we did, this was cool and fun because some of us had never been inside a Submarine before.












But we do get back to patrolling, until the event ends, there was nothing else that stood out or that was out of the ordinary. So J.D. calls it a day or night because it was getting late, we then begin to march back to the HQ.



As we got to the Farrie Building, there was skate boarding, there is a sign No Skate Boarding in this area, so we made them stop with alot of yelling from the skate boarders, it is the LAW and the knew this, but they stoped and we marched on. We findly made it to 5th street from our march, and just around the corner is our HQ, we all knew we made it back safe and a little tired.







Back at HQ we search our members, we do our debrief, we change back into our street clothes. We do love doing this event, it gets our organization out there, we did take alot of photo's with tourist for them to take back to there country, and people get to see what other things Guardian Angels do.



Thank You Contra Costa Chapter For Your Help!
CHAPTER LEADER/JERRY LONGORIA/J.D.
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Vallejo Independence Day Parade 7/4/10

Sunday July 4th 2010, we the San Francisco Guardian Angels will be going over to Vallejo (Solano County) to be in the 4th July PARADE. We will be meeting up with the Solano County Guardian Angels Chapter and the Oakland Guardian Angels Chapter, all three chapters will be in this PARADE. The San Francisco Chapter begins the day by everyone showing up at the HQ on time, we cannot be late. Next we change into uniforms, we prebrief, we are now ready to march to the BART Station.




The BART is our transportation, we will be leaving from Powell Station to El Cerito Del Norty Station. All the SFGA are on board the BART, it is a good distance but we have done this before, and we do have the other chapter's waiting to pick us up in there vehicles.



As we arrived at El Cerito Del Norty Station we all get into vehicles to drive down to Vallejo, this is a good distance as well. We are findly here in downtown Vallejo and you can see that this city is ready for a PARADE, the cars, the floats, the vendors, the music, and all the people. This is going to be a big PARADE, there where more people here than we thought, but most of all the angels are very excited to be in it. Ajax, the Chapter Leader for Oakland and Northern Reg, Director organizes the march, and "O" Chapter Leader for Solano County will be driving there Guardian Angel Vehicle in the PARADE.



Next we march we all march, we wave our hands and we wave all our hands. But one thing did stand out, a little boy came over to one of our angels and asked if he could have a hug, so the angel did give the little boy a hug, our guess was that Vallejo knew who the Guardian Angels are, this was a good feeling.





As we had reach the end of the PARADE the music was still alive, we where all having so much fun that we all began to dance, it was the end of the PARADE so it did not matter. Next we gathered all our things, and we began to marched to "O"s restaurant to get something to eat and have a meeting. As we where marching we stoped to meet with some WW2 veterans, these guys are cool and believe me they do have some story's to tell you, we took a photo with them and thank them for there service.







We did get to "O"s restaurant, we ate, we had a meeting, and now it is time for the SFGA to get back to our city. We all got into the vehicles to drive back to El Cerito Del Norty Station, as we got there to BART Station, we thank the chapters for inviting us to this PARADE, and we thank them for a great time we had.



We got on the BART, we got off at the Powell Station, we get back to the HQ, we do debrief, we change back into our street clothes.







Now this is what it is all about, helping out another chapter, they will help us when we need them, we are a brotherhood and we are a family. Now we are ready for the Convention, bring it on and lets get this Convention started.
We love what we do or we would not be doing it. Check out our video's on U-Tube, type in San Francisco Guardian Angels.
Again:
Thank You Solano County Chapter!
Thank You Oakland Chapter!
CHAPTER LEADER/JERRY LONGORIA/J.D.

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Community Event 6/12/10

Saturday June 12th 2010, we the San Francisco Guardian Angels will be doing a community event today. The team will be lead by Spider the chapter leader for Contra Costa. Spider has been a member with this other organization for awhile, this organization is the sponsor of this event. This event is for the children of this neighborhood and their community, so we do want to make it safe as possible. As Guardian Angels we are ready, we are prepared, and we do know what to expect. We all arrive at the HQ on time, we all change into uniforms, and we are all now ready for prebrief.






We will be using all radios for communication, and we do have two first aid techs with two first aid back packs. Next we march to the bus stop, we catch bus #14, we get to our stop on Mission Street, we march to the event.





The event is already starting and everyone is ready, the food is ready, the music is ready, even the weather is ready. As we are all at our posts, we need to watch out for the cars coming in and out of the event, we try to recruit new members at our both, and we watch the area to the best of our ability. We did get a chance to talk to the San Francisco Fire Dept. and take a few photo's with there fire truck, these guys are great.





For this event it was all great, you could see the children having a great time, you could see everyone enjoying there self's. But it never turns out the way you want it to, we see bad guys, so we thought. One of our angels that is posted up at the entrance was observing these guys, he said that they where smoking a blunt. So we went over to check it out, we did asked them what they where smoking, they showed us a cherry cigar, we advised them that we have to check out these things, they understood and then we left.





Well it is still turning out to be a great day, with plenty of bottled water, and the rotation of our post, this event was a lot of fun. As for Spider he was noticing that this event is coming to end, and advises everyone to get ready to leave. Spider then walks over to the organizer to let her know that we where leaving. The organizer then comes over to us and shakes all our hands, she thanks us and she said she would like to have us back again, we said this was a HONOR and thank her as well.





Spider then marches the team back to the bus stop, we catch bus #14, we get to our stop on Mission Street and 6th, we march to our HQ.





For our HQ, it is our office, it is our place to come together and organize, organize events, and organize patrols, we are very grateful to have a HQ like this. At HQ we do debrief, we change back into our street cloths and we did come back SAFE.
Thank You Spider for leading this event!
For this Event, we where security, we where first aid, we where parking attendants, but most of all we where Guardian Angels.
CHAPTER LEADER/JERRY LONGORIA/J.D.
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Church Event 6/5/10

Saturday June 5th 2010, we the San Francisco Guardian Angels will be doing an EVENT in the Tenderloin and there will be four angels sent over to Solano Chapter for their EVENT. As we all had been up-dated on this day, we are prepared, we have the angels, and we have a beautiful day today. Everyone has arrived at the HQ on time and ready to begin our plan for the day. First we send Cobra's team to Solano, second we all change into uniform, and third we go into our prebrief. This Event was proposed to one of our angels called Dragon, so Dragon will be leading the team today for this EVENT, we will be using all radio's for communication, and we have one first aid tech on this team.




Next we march to the Tenderloin to this EVENT for the Church on Golden Gate Street, this church does have history, and this church is well loved by the community.



This street is closed off to the public for this EVENT, and there will be no vehicles allowed at all.



Our objective is to make it safe for this Event, post up on each end of the street, and observe who comes in, NO Drinking, NO Drugs, NO Bad Guys.





We as Guardian Angels did get a table set up at this EVENT, to pass out information, to talk to the community, and to get new members, but was asked not to have a donation container, we do follow the rules.



As the day was going into the afternoon, we as angels had seen a male fall flat into the pavement on a sidewalk and hit his head. We immediately went over to him with our first aid tech, the first aid tech looked him over, this guy was knocked out cold with no response what so ever.



The first aid tech advised to make the call, call 911, and we did. The EMT"S arrived and the SF Fire Department arrived, they looked him over, got him awake, put him on a gurney, and they left. Who knows maybe we saved this guys life, maybe we didn't, but this is what we do and we do it to the best of our ability.



Next we move on with our day, and the day was turning out to be a great day, and yes it was alttle slow but it was safe. We did meet alot of people in this community, we did meet the security for the Saint Anthony, and we did meet the Preist for the church.







Now we are ready to call it a day and leave the area and march back to the HQ. Everyone did thank us for our help, and everyone was pleased to see the angels here at this EVENT, this made us feel good as we left.



Back at the HQ, we go right into debrief, everyone felt they did a good job, hardly any mistakes, and now adding to how many EVENTS we had done already, everyone is ready to get back into patrolling. As for the team that went to the Solano Chapter EVENT, they where still out at the EVENT, but they are in good hands with the leaders from that County.
CHAPTER LEADER/JERRY LONGORIA/J.D.

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