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Prayers for fire victims

Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
in All Saints
With wild fires raging in various parts of the world, it brings it home in your small corner when your daughter's street is evacuated as a blaze took hold in nearby gardens and houses.

She's staying with me tonight as she was visiting a friend when the fire started and the police wouldn't let her through the cordon.

My son-in-law is staying put to keep an eye on things.

Nobody hurt mercifully but itlooks like 3 houses have been destroyed.

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  • AravisAravis Shipmate
    That’s awful, Gamma. Prayers for you and your family.
  • Lamb ChoppedLamb Chopped Shipmate
    oh dear, I'm sorry.
  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    She's cross with my son-in-law who should have evacuated but he says nobody told him. The emergency services will have had their hands full.

    Their next door neighbour was nearly arrested twice when he tried to return to his house to get his meds. The police finally let him through.

    Pretty chaotic scenes but worse fires elsewhere. Neighbours and local shop keepers have rallied round to help those affected.
  • RoseofsharonRoseofsharon Shipmate
    I have friends and family in the general area, although not the actual town that I think GG is referring to.
    We have become a bit familiar with forest and heath fires on the news, but it is another level of fear to hear of a grass fire spreading so swiftly and with such power into a suburban residential area.

    I noticed last week that the local council here had mown all the verges and grassed areas, and presumed this was a preventative measure against casual or careless ignition.
  • Gamma GamalielGamma Gamaliel Shipmate
    No, it's not Stourbridge.
  • ChastMastrChastMastr Shipmate
    Praying!!
  • Gramps49Gramps49 Shipmate
    Working on the sermon for Sunday. So far, I have changed it five times. Decided to mention flooding in American Midwest; Earthquakes in Columbia and Venezuela, Fire everywhere, and Famine. Text will be Genesis 45: 1-17

    We have a lot to pray for.
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    The Army has been called out to help with fire fighting in South Wales. We often get a rash of fires, accidental and otherwise, but even with the best advice not to have barbecues, firepits and the like, they seem to be very widespread.
  • Net SpinsterNet Spinster Shipmate
    Dry enough and hot enough it need not even be humans. My area still remembers the dry thunderstorms that set off the CZU Lightning Complex fires back in 2020.
    California (in fact all the western states) have a fairly large mutual aid among the various fire fighting units.
  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    I see that our PM Andy Burnham is now intending to acquire fire-fighting aircraft - a first for the UK, I think.
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    I see that our PM Andy Burnham is now intending to acquire fire-fighting aircraft - a first for the UK, I think.

    We ought to be aware that the European Union has placed an order for 22 advanced fire fighting aircraft, part paid by the EU. They are produced in Canada.

  • Bishops FingerBishops Finger Shipmate
    Indeed. A sign of the times...
  • sionisaissionisais Shipmate
    I’ve not been praying here much for those who have lost homes, property and businesses and the general misery caused by the fires. Seeking remedies and allocating blame is a bit of a side issue when there is so much unhappiness and fear.
    🙏🙏🙏
  • Ex_OrganistEx_Organist Shipmate
    Bishops Finger wrote: »
    I see that our PM Andy Burnham is now intending to acquire fire-fighting aircraft - a first for the UK, I think.

    We already have some suitably equipped helicopters, but they are all in Cyprus (see: https://www.raf.mod.uk/news/articles/new-helicopters-restore-year-round-response-capability-in-cyprus/ ) There seem to be a few others that are privately operated.
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