Our Mission
From the beginning, our motivation has been to “save one home.”
When we started developing an aerial wildfire fighting tool, we felt strongly that if all our work on a new firefighting solution could help save even one home, it would all be worth it. At that time, our small team was unpaid and unfunded, yet we were dedicated to developing a new way to fight wildfires.
But, it’s never been only about the wildfire for us; it is about protecting what the wildfire burns. Time and time again, we’ve seen that wildfires are capable of destroying homes, neighborhoods, and even whole communities overnight. Families find themselves left with mere ashes where there were once bedrooms, and postcard collections, and wedding albums, and childhood toys. Neighborhoods are erased—communities are uprooted. Witnessing that kind of devastation, we were determined to find a way to help, a way to join the brave men and women actively fighting these fires.
In 2008, we started experimenting with a 1000-liter, corrugated box, dropped from the back of an airplane in a dry lake bed in Arizona. The product was very much a rough draft, and countless revisions were necessary before it became a viable product. However, we felt so strongly that the status quo of wildfire fighting was unacceptable, and so, armed with the combined experience to develop a system capable of fighting wildfires, we worked tirelessly to save even one home.
Further, while the aspiration to save one home is why we started working on a new way to join the fight against wildfires, the hope to continue saving homes is why we have stuck with it all this time. As our reach has expanded, so has our mission. We have seen that the Guardian system not only saves homes, but it also protects the environment and empowers air forces to more effectively fight wildfires.
Even still, the core of our mission remains the same: save one home. And then another. And another.
Our History
Caylym Technologies International LLC (Caylym), was founded in early 2009 on a mission to develop, test, and bring worldwide adoption of a Containerized Aerial Fire Fighting System (CAFFS). Aware of the increasingly severe wildfire problem in California and beyond, we knew there had to be a better way to fight wildfires. Our mission to join the fight led to the development of the Guardian, the only proven and effective CAFFS. In 2012, Guardians were first dropped in Romania, and since then, adoption of this system has become increasingly widespread around the world. We are proud to be a U.S.-based, Service-Disabled Veteran Owned Small Business, with primary manufacturing operations located in Fresno, California, and a secondary joint manufacturing operation located in Franklin, Ohio. In addition to the Guardian, we also manufacture the Fontana, an environmentally sustainable and easy-to-use potable water system.
