California Wildfires

My heart breaks for these individuals. I was not going to post or blog about this. However, I am using my blog as a personal journal as well to remember events. Thus, I am going to post a few pictures and some of the captions from the phots.

California and the families involved; you are in my prayers.

In the photo below: Resident Randa Najjar, right, hugs her daughter Shareen, 14, as they look from a vantage point in Portola Hills, as a wildfire approaches their Santiago Canyon States home, while Shareen's father was still evacuating from their home



In the photo below: A wildfire burns in the San Bernardino mountains near Running Springs, Calif. on Tuesday, Oct. 23, 2007.



In the photo below: A firefighter tries to contain a fire burning in a large apartment complex that was in the path of a fast-moving wildfire burning through the Rancho Bernardo neighborhood of San Diego, California, October 22, 2007. Fast-moving wildfires raged



In the photo below: A firefighter holds his helmet during a gust of wind while using a water canon on top of a fire truck to try to protect buildings that were in the path of a fast-moving wildfire burning through the Rancho Bernardo neighborhood of San Diego.



In the phot below: A helicopter prepares to drop water on a brushfire in the Del Dios area of Escondido, California. More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate across California on Tuesday as wildfires raged for a third day, razing over 1,000 homes and threatening to overwhelm weary firefighters.



In the last photo I am doing below: Smoke billows to the sky above where fires are spreading near houses in Stevenson Ranch, California. More than half a million people were ordered to evacuate across California on Tuesday as ferocious wildfires raged unchecked for a third day, destroying more than 1,000 homes.