Block 75

Trained Firefighters

This evening 

the national news

brought several

international disasters

to the viewers.

The 1st disaster

was in Russia.

Forest Fires . . .

Now,

we have bad forest fires

in the United States.

The difference

is that we have

firefighters

trained to deal

with them.

From what I have heard,

the firefighters in Russia

do not receive 

this type of training.

Then,

I see that some of the fires

are in forests

that are growing on peat.

Peat has been used

for thousands,

if not millions,

of years 

as a means of heating 

shelters.
The news said

that the peat in this one area

can go 7 feet into the ground.

That

sounds to me

like it 

could smolder for years.

How sad.

Dear Lord,

Thank you for people like Mark and Ron who have dedicated their lives to firefighting. The people of Logansport have been lucky too have men like them as their employees. These men do not "work a job." They are "working a passion."

Amen.