Fire Storm in Southern California
Fire crews are overwhelmed as the fire crosses Ramblas Pacifico in the Malibu Hills, Monday, Oct. 22, 2007, in Malibu, Calif.
As most of you know, Flap lives in Southern California and the fires are the worst I can ever remember. Hundreds of homes have burned and hundreds of thousands of people have been evacuated and displaced.
Rob (NZ Bear) has the most comprehensive set of links on the fire situation.
Let us all pray for our firefighters and for the winds to die down.
An Erickson Air-Crane heads away from the fire to refill with water as firefighters work to contain a wildfire in the Valencia area of Los Angeles County October 22, 2007. More than a dozen separate fires, driven by dry, gale-force Santa Ana winds, burned out of control across the drought-stricken southern half of the state, charring an estimated 200,000 acres, killing at least one person and injuring a number of others.