We ask for prayers as much of the western United States suffers through drought like conditions and what appears will be a very long fire danger season this year with fires already flaring up in California only half way through January.
California appears to suffering the worst of the drought. The golden state is nearly as dry as it’s ever been. High water marks rim half-full reservoirs. Cities are rationing water and clerics are praying for rain. Ranchers are selling cattle, and farmers are leaving fields unseeded and unattended. Gov. Jerry Brown formally proclaimed a drought Friday, saying California is in the midst of perhaps its worst dry spell in a century.
He made the announcement in San Francisco amid increasing pressure from lawmakers and as firefighters battled flare-ups in a Southern California wildfire. Firefighters in Southern California were gaining more control of a blaze that had forced thousands to flee and destroyed or damaged nearly two dozen structures. By mid-day Sunday, 78% of the wildfire that began in the Angeles National Forest before spreading northeast of Los Angeles had been contained, according to the Associated Press. But it may be three more days before the fire’s 3-square-mile footprint is fully controlled.
“It’s starting to look fairly good,” Robert Brady, spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service, told the AP. “We’re still in very dry conditions, so I would remind people to be careful out there.”
To read more about the fire, click here: https://www.foxnews.com/us/2014/01/17/wildfire-burning-in-hills-near-los-angeles/