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All-out aerial assault helps firefighters save homes in Holy fire: ‘They’re fighting so hard’

August 11, 2018 By administrator

A helicopter fighting the Holy fire drops water on flames at along Ortega Highway. (Irfan Khan / Los Angeles Times)

By Ruben Vives

This fire might be won from the air. A squadron of 12 fixed-wing planes and 14 helicopters pounded the Holy Fire, an epic aerial assault that is showing signs of success. The hot conditions and unpredictable weather have made it difficult for firefighters to get ahead of the fire. But they have one big advantage: easy access to the water from Lake Elsinore, which they have used for countless drops. The short distance to the lake has proven a key factor in tamping down the flames.

— Amid California’s destructive year of fire, a pitched battle is underway over how much slack the Legislature should — or can — provide for the state’s utility companies facing liability under a strict standard they have been held to for more than a half-century. Industry representatives have warned that those rules, combined with the forecast of a hotter and drier California, mean that proactive fire policies won’t be enough to prevent the kinds of costs that could lead to bankruptcy. Los Angeles Times

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Armenian priest unveils mystery of Jerusalem’s Holy Fire

March 12, 2018 By administrator

Jerusalem’s Holy Fire

Priest Samuel Aghoyan representing the Armenian Patriarchate in Jerusalem recently had an argument with a representative of the Coptic Church on the issue of how the Holy Fire appears. The incident occurred while shooting a report for Hadashot 2 news bulletin produced by Israel Television News Company.

For more than 1,200 years the ritual of the Holy Fire has been performed in Jerusalem every Easter, with a flame “miraculously” appearing at the darkened tomb of Jesus to symbolize the Resurrection.

Aghoyan said he has seen three times how the patriarchs lit the bundles of wax candles from an oil lamp inside the empty tomb, adding that there was nothing mysterious about the Holy Fire.

“God works miracles, but not for the amusement of people,” said the priest.

This statement angered a Coptic clergyman who demanded to stop the shooting.

“The fire descends from the sky and the patriarch takes it out and shares with others,” he claimed.

Aghoyan said in response that the Copts do not attend the Holy Fire ceremony.

In past centuries, the Holy Fire was carried from Jerusalem all through the Orthodox world – by steamer to Odessa on the Black Sea to light the icon lamps of Russia, on mules to Damascus in the steps of St Paul, and by camel caravan to the churches of the Coptic Christians of Egypt.

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