October 25, 2007

• Fire fire fire….

  **EDIT**

  Here’s a cool thing – this link shows a map of all the fires, and their containment – and more information on each fire if you click on it.
  Google Maps

  I counted an unbelievable 33 fires!  Good news, most of them are 100% contained now with just 9 still only 20 or 30 % contained.

  37 firefighters injured.

  *END EDIT

  The southern California fires rage out of control. 

  

  The northern San Diego County fire looks as though it might burn all the way to the ocean!  To give you a idea of where I live — if you went straight down from the “I” in Irvine, in the picture above, almost to the ocean – that’s where we live.

  

  The night time pictures are both striking and horrifying.  It’s difficult to image the hundreds of fire fighters that are working diligently around So. Cal to put these fires out – putting their lives on the line.

  

  This picture is awe striking.  I can’t even imagine what would be on fire to create soooooooo much fire and how fearless that firefighter looks standing in front of it with that little tiny truck!  How could he possibly help in that situation?  Seems hopeless.  But there he stands as if it’s not.

  
  

  

  The devastation leaves me even more awe struck — more than a 1200 homes burned — and that was as of yesterday.

  
  

  

  
  This is the smoke stream — it almost looks foggy at my house.  The sun shines through, but it’s an eerie orange-ish color.  The outside of my house is covered with a thin layer of ash.  The air quality stinks!  Poor Val is struggling with her asthma through it all.

  Please be praying – for these fire fighters, for these many thousands of thousands of families that have been evacuated (like 300,000 in San Diego alone), for these many families that have lost their homes, and for those that have lost their loved ones.  Please pray for safety and for an abundant amount of grace and mercy — and that God would use this in those unsaved people to draw them to Him — to seek joy and peace, not in things, but in an everlasting Living God and Savior – that can never be taken from them.  With God nothing is hopeless.

  ~Di
  

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