Las Vegas gears up for Extreme Makeover Home Edition

A big rally on Fremont Street Tuesday night to welcome Extreme Makeover Home Edition to Las Vegas.

They'll be re-building a home for a local family, but they haven't announced which family they'll help.

We'll find out in just one week.

Tuesday night it was all about the volunteers and getting them geared up for hours of hard work.

Volunteers that were found in a crowd of hundreds at the rally.

Yet executive producer for the show, Conrad Ricketts, still encouraged even more to head to the tables and sign up.

"Everybody comes into it thinking they're going to change someone else's life but in the process they end up changing their own life," Ricketts says.

Starting next week, the extreme crew comes in, excites a town, builds a house, and does it all in seven days.

The builders, Wright Custom Home, haven't seen the designs yet, but they have hundreds of volunteers.

"At first it was 500 but we've been getting a flood of people from the community," Daniel Bartlett, with Wright Custom Home, says.

Volunteers like 11-year old Emily.

"You know that you're helping people that really need Extreme Makeover," she says.

Even Mayor Goodman himself said he'll help.

"He's going to give me a paint brush and I might take a little bit of broad brush," Mayor Goodman says.

While no one knows who the lucky family will be, they're ready to work and change the life of a stranger.

They will surprise the family at their house next Tuesday March 10th and then the demolition begins on the 12th.

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