Tuesday, November 6, 2007

California Wildfires

I know they are pretty much all done with, but I think it would be rude of me not to mention the California wildfires for a moment.

The pictures have been quite incredible. The amount of land and houses destroyed by the numerous fires is just unbelievable. And the people who actually died in these fires is just heartbreaking. I know plenty of people who live in San Diego and so I had quite a few friends and sorority sisters affected by the wildfires. Fortunately, none of them or their families lost their homes, though so many others did. I did have a friend who's cousin is a firefighter in San Diego, and who was burned in efforts to stop one of the fires.

I could never imagine what the people of Southern California had to go through. The air quality was real bad. Which kind of reminds me of the Oakland Hills fires of years ago. We did have ash in the air, but I don't remember it being hard to breath or anything like that. I just hope those who were personally affected by these fires are able to recover and heal quickly. And God Bless the firefighters and all others who helped and assisted in controlling the fires.

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