Oh God

[ishtar79]

Ancient Olympia just burned to the ground.

*curls into a ball*

eta: After a whole DAY of conflicting reports, it seems that while the fire was in the grounds and burned a good portion of the woods, they managed to save the ancient site and museum. It's by no means the end of this, but it's a huge relief for me.

Comments

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

oh dear God, this is a world wide tragedy.

[ishtar79.livejournal.com]

It is. But it seems that at least according to recent reports, they managed to save most of the site of Olympia.

Right now I'm watching the news about people trapped in the fire. 62 dead so far.

[embers-log.livejournal.com]

I cannot believe how fast the death toll is rising, people should have been evacuated days ago, there really should be a way to protect the population.
When we were in the line of fire in Southern California we had buses standing by to take us out, we weren't on them because the main fire station was across the street and they assured us that our area would remain safe (although we had no electricity and we were breathing a lot of ash for a full week).