To the editor: I write from the relative security of Perth, Western Australia, the place it’s summer season and we’re in our personal hearth season. Like yours, our firefighters have additionally been extraordinary in what they’ve completed up to now. (“Thousands of homes burned in Palisades, Eaton fires; more days of fire weather ahead,” Jan. 9)
I used to be moved to tears watching what’s occurring to your folks and the attractive metropolis of Los Angeles. I wished you all to know that whereas we could also be a great distance away, we care, and we ship our love and finest needs for the bottom potential lack of life and property.
To those that have misplaced property, family members or buddies, we ship our ideas and prayers.
Rob Didcoe, Perth, Australia
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To the editor: As I sit and watch the footage of the horrible wildfires, my coronary heart breaks for owners, residents and the emergency firefighters coping with nature’s wrath.
We too are absolutely conscious of the affect of fireplace on the group. Our state is probably the most ravaged by hearth in Australia.
To all these affected by the fires — and they’ll affect the entire group — please know that we on the opposite facet of the world grieve for you and your loss. Search help and kindness wherever yow will discover it.
You aren’t alone. Our ideas are with you.
Karen Ford, Melbourne, Australia
