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Two backpacks full of emergency supplies sit ready for action in the room next to Robin and Shawn Grayshield’s garage.

As a wildland firefighter who has lived in Carson City, Nevada, for more than 40 years, Robin has seen people who arrived at a shelter with nothing but the clothes on their back — “not even money in the wallet,” he said. “I knew that I never wanted to be put in that situation.”