Travis Barker Meets With Incarcerated Firefighters Battling L.A. Wildfires

Travis Barker is ensuring the inmate firefighters battling the Los Angeles wildfires know the way appreciated they’re for risking their lives throughout the ongoing catastrophe.

TMZ has discovered Travis made it some extent to pay a go to to the Rose Bowl Advanced in Pasadena, California on Monday, the place he met with members of the Anti-Recidivism Coalition … made up of nonviolent safety inmates who’re on the entrance strains with different first responders.

Travis tells us … “A lot of them came from the juvenile system and this program gives them the ability for real change and to make a difference. To see the humanity in all of them was amazing.”

TB says this exhibits the coalition is effective for each the inmates and the neighborhood endangered by the fires, including … “They saw themselves as criminals before because that’s all anyone told them — and now they are being told they are heroes, first responders, and they begin to see themselves differently.”

Travis additionally met with members of the Nationwide Guard on the advanced — they’re additionally on the entrance strains serving to safe affected neighborhoods.

ARC was formally created in 2013 and has served greater than 1,000 incarcerated youth up to now. We’re informed filmmaker Scott Budnick was there Monday … he routinely works to finish mass incarceration in California.