Many or most people of polo know some people from the great country of Australia. It is time to say a orayer for many of them as they are in a firestorm much worse than the many we have known in Californiam which have been bad enough. These wildfires are killing thousands of animals and hundreds of humans. Please give them a moment in your day when you can and some hope for it to end.

We are suffering a rainy time here in California, but we have seen the disaster of fire and know how it feels, so we can relate to the devastation. Here is a e-mail from a friend who has someone who has been in the path of this destruction.

From: Monique Rameau [mailto:monique@rameau.com.au]
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2009 1:49 PM
To: ‘Paula Beamer’
Subject: RE: Victoria

It is so very sad Paula…. The TV has been nothing but the bushfires since Sunday. It is so tragic and tears well in my eyes every time I watch the TV. There are so many sad stories. I worry so much for the animals. One lady said the worst thing was hearing the animals screaming throughout the night. Vets were shooting animals before to save them the agony and obviously after. They think the animal toll is over 1,000,000, the human toll is 181 probably will rise to 300 and 750 homes and something like 350,000 hectares of land destroyed. I’m not sure what footage you get over there, but it is the worst thing I have seen. Some people just haven’t heard whether their relatives are dead. So many people were caught in cars, they couldn’t see to drive and there were pile ups of vehicles where they smashed into each other trying to escape and the fires just went over the top of them… the fires were moving so fast not many had any time to escape. The flames just engulfed them. Cars were found in driveways with keys in ignition, pets in the back and the bodies in between the house and the car. They just didn’t make it. It’s horrifying.

People are reuniting after 5 days of not knowing. There is no power or phones so it is very hard for anyone to contact others.

We will pray for all of them!

–Steve Crowder.

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