David Kingston, chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Los Angeles District’s Emergency Management Branch, takes part in a discussion about requesting direct assistance from the Corps during the Southern California Post-Fire Mitigation, Recovery and Resilience Workshop for Tribes at the Pechanga Reservation near Temecula, California, Feb. 28, 2023. During the daylong workshop, the Corps teamed up with other local, state and federal agencies to share information about flood-fighting resources with tribal partners. Kingston is joined here by Eileen Takata, environmental manager with the Corps’ South Pacific Division, center, and Patricia Fontanet Rodriguez, natural disaster planner with the Corps’ Sacramento District, right.