Where I've been....
Jan 27, 2017 23:19:31 GMT
Post by Deleted on Jan 27, 2017 23:19:31 GMT
www.theguardian.com/world/gallery/2017/jan/25/chile-wildfire-worst-ever-in-pictures?CMP=share_btn_fb
www.24horas.cl/nacional/incendio-en-litueche-avanza-con-fuerza-por-el-viento-que-se-registra-en-la-zona-2279946
cronicanoticiosa.com/2016/11/17/declaran-alerta-roja-en-comuna-de-litueche-por-incendio-forestal-tambien-se-informa-de-cortes-de-energia-en-al-menos-15-comunas/
elrancaguino.cl/2016/11/18/litueche-y-pichidegua-se-mantienen-en-alerta-roja-por-incendios-forestales/
And its shit....
The people are devastated, the fire fighters are exhausted. Chile only has a volunteer fire brigade and they pay for all their own kit, including plant.
We have been delivering water, skin cream, toiletries and sandwiches in clingfilm to the fire fighters who are hungry, tired and often injured. Everybody has been asked to pick up any fireman they see hitch-hiking, because its the only way they can get to the fires.
People have lost everything; we have been taking them our childrens' old clothes, toys and games, but its awful.
And many of these fires are deliberate. I cannot tell you how much I would give for half an hour alone with a fire starter.
I shall probably lose a few trees, we have about 300 acres of cultivated forest down there, but the vast majority will survive. And in any case that is trivial to what some of the people have lost.
Sometimes I miss Oxfordshire very much.
www.24horas.cl/nacional/incendio-en-litueche-avanza-con-fuerza-por-el-viento-que-se-registra-en-la-zona-2279946
cronicanoticiosa.com/2016/11/17/declaran-alerta-roja-en-comuna-de-litueche-por-incendio-forestal-tambien-se-informa-de-cortes-de-energia-en-al-menos-15-comunas/
elrancaguino.cl/2016/11/18/litueche-y-pichidegua-se-mantienen-en-alerta-roja-por-incendios-forestales/
And its shit....
The people are devastated, the fire fighters are exhausted. Chile only has a volunteer fire brigade and they pay for all their own kit, including plant.
We have been delivering water, skin cream, toiletries and sandwiches in clingfilm to the fire fighters who are hungry, tired and often injured. Everybody has been asked to pick up any fireman they see hitch-hiking, because its the only way they can get to the fires.
People have lost everything; we have been taking them our childrens' old clothes, toys and games, but its awful.
And many of these fires are deliberate. I cannot tell you how much I would give for half an hour alone with a fire starter.
I shall probably lose a few trees, we have about 300 acres of cultivated forest down there, but the vast majority will survive. And in any case that is trivial to what some of the people have lost.
Sometimes I miss Oxfordshire very much.
