Our surgeon lost his house in fire

Sharra and I live in Northern California and we have been dealing with a bad fire up here since Wednesday. We live in different towns but they are close together. The fire has been up on the ridge in a town called Paradise. It has burned over 23,000 acres and so far 66 homes have been destroyed. We learned yesterday that one of the homes was that of our surgeon. We have a group of us that stays in pretty good contact with each (we see each other at the post op class or the support group each month) and an email was sent letting everyone know of this tragedy. We also have fellow patients that live up there which we have not heard from. It has definelty been a hard week and the smoke from the fire has been unbearable. Some people have been allowed to go back into Paradise but at one point they had evacuated over 9000 people. Can you please say a prayer for these people dealing with the loss of their homes and belongings.

900 evacuated? Those poor people. Prayers are on the way

thoughts and prayers go out to you and everyone dealing with the fire and also here by me with all the flooding looks like if is going to be worst then the great flood of 93. What a wild weather season!

I feel for all those who are dealing with the fires I said to a friend the other day we need to suck up all the water here in Cedar Rapids and dump it on the fires in Cali. We have lost 1000s of homes and thousands of people have been displaced here too so what your dealing with hits close to home.

Oh how sad. I will definitely be praying for everyone in that area. We had a house fire 2 years ago so I know what it's like to lose many of your valued possessions and live in a hotel for 6 months. Stay SAFE everyone who lives in Northern California and in the flooded areas in Iowa. Keeping you all in my prayers!