ABOUT US
Learn about our firefighter-founded mission to protect homes and restore fire-resilient California landscapes.
At Hotshot Home Hardening, we believe wildfire resilience starts long before smoke appears on the horizon. Our mission is to help homeowners protect what matters most through proven wildfire mitigation, defensible space, and fire-resilient landscaping.
What makes us different is our firsthand experience. As Hotshot Wildland Firefighters, we've spent years on the front lines of some of the West's most challenging wildfires. We've seen how fires move through landscapes, how homes become vulnerable, and what measures truly make a difference when wildfire threatens a community.
That experience shapes every recommendation we make.
We don't use a one-size-fits-all approach. We evaluate each property's unique terrain, vegetation, structures, and wildfire risks to create customized solutions that improve safety without sacrificing beauty. From defensible space and vegetation management to fire-resilient landscape design and home hardening recommendations, our goal is to help your property become more resistant to wildfire while remaining a place you love to call home.
We understand that your property is more than land—it's your investment, your memories, and your future. That's why we combine science-based wildfire mitigation with thoughtful stewardship of the landscape, creating outdoor spaces that are safer, healthier, and more resilient.
When you work with Hot Shot Home Hardening, you're partnering with professionals who have witnessed the consequences of wildfire firsthand and are committed to helping prevent those losses before they happen.
Because protecting homes isn't just our profession—it's our purpose.
Backstory
Founder, Miro Serrell Freed, was born and raised in Los Angeles specifically Altadena & Echo Park. He didn’t grow up in the “wilderness” but has always had a calling to be a part of it. A calling that has taken him around the world working and volunteering in various conservation roles.
Miro’s calling started at a young age with an education centered around camping and our natural environment. In high school, volunteering with Heal The Bay (ocean cleanups) and the Children’s Ranch Foundation (therapeutic animal caretaking program to assist children on the autism spectrum). He studied animal behavior in college, ending up working at wolf sanctuaries across the country, focusing on education and reintroduction into the wild. He followed the opportunity to work on a Sea Shepard ship in Mexico where the mission was saving endangered species from poachers. He’s always known that the future was to be of service and to be dedicated to the health of the earth.
He spent his first year firefighting in Alaska, followed by working on a Hotshot crew in Northern CA. He then went on to find a home with Arroyo Grande Hotshots on the central coast of CA and will always look back on those years as the most meaningful job of his life with caring individuals who inspired him to want to do more.
Having seen firsthand the devastation the Eaton Fire had on the community Miro grew up in was the catalyst to do something different to help. If the appropriate action had been taken prior to these fires, lives, homes, and communities could have been saved. Miro’s mission and duty as a firefighter is to do everything in his power to do just that.
