CALIFORNIA INFERNO, A HELL ON EARTH?

It is burning again in California - southern California area of Los Angeles, that is!

In what seem to have become an annual ritual, wildfires are consuming swaths of southern California forests with vengance!So far so many homes have been destroyed, forcing thousands of resident to flee for their dear lives. Many wild animals including deers, bears and eagles have also been forcefully dislocated, as a result of the fury from hell scenario down there in southern California!

Only mother nature can save the day with the opening of the heavens, as the brave men and women firefighters can now only watch and pray as the inferno seem to have overwhelmed their capabilities. Such was the state of hopelessness that one impassioned observer said, 'anyone who has any insight into the good Lord upstairs, should please put in a word/request?' So bad is the situation that Icheoku says, in the fight between fire and firefighters for the soul of southern California tinder-dry forests, fire seem to have taken the upper hand? According to one observer, "It's burning everywhere in Southern California!" The fire has so far scorched 164 square miles of brush, destroyed 53 homes and forest cabins and taken the lives of two firefighters. The two firefighters died when their firefighting truck drove off the side of a canyon with flames surrounding them. Icheoku says, may the souls of firemen, Captain Tedmund Hall, 47, of San Bernardino County, and firefighter Specialist Arnaldo "Arnie" Quinones, 35, of Palmdale rest in peace.

Pictured here left, is a deer heeding the proverbial advise, 'there is fire on the mountain, run, run run!'

In the words of one fire-victim, "It's the worst roller coaster of my life, and I hate roller coasters; one second I'm crying, one second I'm guilty, the next moment I'm angry, and then I just want to drink tequila and forget. From now on, I'm going to have to figure out a new philosophy: how to live without loving stuff?"

Icheoku says, what an irony of life that it took an unfortunate fire incident to impact this moral lesson on this guy? It is rather unfortunate that it has to take a devastating wildfire to open this victim's eye to what the preacher had all along said in the book of Ecclesiastes, that all is vanity? Could it be a case of some good coming out of a bad situation? Anyway, it depends on who you ask; but our sympathies go out to all the victims of the Southern California wildfire on steroids!