Travis Barker is ensuring the inmate firefighters battling the Los Angeles wildfires understand how appreciated they’re for risking their lives through the ongoing catastrophe.

TMZ has discovered Travis made it some extent to pay a go to to the Rose Bowl Complicated 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 … “Quite a lot of them got here from the juvenile system and this program offers them the power for actual change and to make a distinction. To see the humanity in all of them was superb.”

TB says this reveals the coalition is efficacious for each the inmates and the neighborhood endangered by the fires, including … “They noticed themselves as criminals earlier than as a result of that’s all anybody advised them — and now they’re being advised they’re heroes, first responders, they usually start to see themselves otherwise.”

Travis additionally met with members of the Nationwide Guard on the complicated — 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 to this point. We’re advised filmmaker Scott Budnick was there Monday … he routinely works to finish mass incarceration in California.