All firefighters do is put out fires and save lives.
California Wildfires: “As the death toll from wildfires ravaging both ends of California climbed on Sunday, powerful winds swept through the state, stretching firefighting resources to the limit. “At least 31 people have died in the fires: 29 in Northern California's Camp fire and two in Southern California's Woolsey fire. “The Camp fire -- the most destructive fire in state history and one of the deadliest -- virtually burned the town of Paradise to the ground, destroying thousands of homes and structures. “There are 228 people still unaccounted for as a result of the blaze, Butte County Sheriff and Coroner Kory Honea told reporters Sunday evening. “The Woolsey fire continues to be a major blaze, displacing hundreds of thousands of residents as it moves east, including several celebrities. Firefighters on Sunday managed to contain flareups generated by high winds in Los Angeles County. But officials warned that the dry conditions feeding the fire are expected to continue into the week. "'This is not the new normal, this is the new abnormal,’ Gov. Jerry Brown said of the role of climate change. ‘The chickens are coming home to roost, this is real here.’" - CNN/ Dakin Andone, Nicole Chavez, and Emanuella Grinberg/ November 12, 2018 "American Red Cross workers have set up temporary shelters and food sites across the state. Donate to the efforts by visiting redcross.org or texting REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation. Donors can even specifically request their monies go towards California relief efforts by writing the specific disaster name in the memo line of a check made out to the organization.” - U.S. News Added 12/1: "The effort to locate the remains of people killed in the Camp Fire north of Sacramento has concluded, the Butte County Sheriff’s office announced this week. The remains of 88 people were recovered from the blaze."The Camp Fire, which was fully contained on Sunday after burning 153,335 acres, was by far the deadliest fire in California history. The second-deadliest fire, Los Angeles’ 1933 Griffith Park Fire, killed 29. The wildfire is also the deadliest U.S. fire since 1918, when the Cloquet fire in Minnesota killed 450." - Tara Law/ Time/ 11-30 Please give to the National Fallen Firefighters Foundation: P.O. Drawer 498/ Emmitsburg, Maryland 21727/ 301-447-1365
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11/23/2018 09:32:14 pm
By just hearing the words itself makes me feel devastated. California Wildfire was one of the events that are trying to know us down. A lot of people lost their homes as well as their properties. But the worst thing is there are people who lost their lives unfortunately. In a snap of a finger, everything turned into nothing already. Though the government and other organizations have been teaming up to solve and at least ease all the pain that people are feeling because of that, you can never take that sadness away from people. I just hope that we will learn something from it.
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