Fire in Israel

According to a recent article from The New York Times entitled, "Israel Calls for Urgent Help Fighting Lethal Fire," a raging fire insinuated in one of Israel's forests in a highly populated area. This, "caused the evacuation of thousands of people, burned some kibbutz houses to the ground and prompted the Israeli government to call for urgent international aid in fighting the inferno" leaving 40 people dead. (New York Times) Since this fire was so vast and expansive, Israel had to call for help from surrounding countries such as Cyprus, Italy, Russia, and Greece to send firefighting planes.

This fire was the biggest and deadliest fire in all of Israel's history and it is reported that the fire broke out about 11:30 a.m. and was still raging out of control in the evening. The fire was contained not until the next day. The areas in northern Israel that were impacted the most included, "Kibbutz Beit Oren, a communal farm in the Carmel hills, several houses were burned to the ground. Most of the residents were believed to have evacuated ahead of the fire. The University of Haifa was evacuated as a precaution, as was a luxury spa hotel, Yaarot Hacarmel." (New York Times) It is so upsetting to hear that many innocent lives were lost due to this fire. Also, many homes were destroyed completely and the families now need to rebuild their lives and homes.

I think that it is very important for people all over the world to reach out to Israel as well as the families to help rebuild this community. The United States, after September 11th, was aided by many other countries that showed their support for the U.S. and so this country should in return do the same and extend a helping hand to countries in need. I encourage everyone to find a way to help out a community, especially the community in Israel that suffered this tragedy.

In our reading of Babbie, it talked about the Internet and search engines, which are, "a computer program designed to locate where specified terms appear on websites throughout the World Wide Web." (Babbie 484) This relates to the article and my blog because if people wish to find out more information on this matter concerning Israel they could go to a search engine, such as Google, and type in their queries. Also, a search engine could find out how to reach out and help the community of Israel that was affected and give donations that go directly to fund the rebuilding of the community and help the families.