The Missouri Structural Assessment and Visual Evaluation (SAVE) Coalition is a group of volunteer engineers, architects, building inspectors, and other trained professionals that assists the Missouri State Emergency Management Agency (SEMA) with post-disaster building safety evaluations. After a disaster, SAVE volunteers are trained to move quickly to determine which buildings are safe to use and which should be evacuated. As a member of the Coalition since 1995 and a member of SAVE Board of Directors since 2001, Ben Ross has had the opportunity to deploy on a number of missions to assist communities hit by a natural disaster. He is an enthusiastic booster of SAVE’s mission and has participated in training programs and preparation of training materials and guidance documents at the state and national level. Ben led the SAVE deployment of over sixty volunteers in response to the EF-5 Joplin tornado and helped facilitate the deployment after the EF-3 tornado that struck Missouri’s capital, Jefferson City. The differences between those experiences, such as coordination with local, state, and federal agencies, collaboration with law enforcement, NIMS resource typing, interstate mutual aid, and the role of improved technology (GIS, real-time data collection software, etc.) over that time span, will be discussed. The initial volunteer training provided and continuing education requirements to participate with SAVE will be described, as well as the expectations of volunteers when called for a deployment. Since many involved in the public works industry are also first responders in their communities and have training and work experience that fits well with the mission of organization’s like SAVE, perhaps this can serve as an incentive for attendees to look for ways that they might get involved with similar activities in their state.