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SFIC Offers Prayers and Encourages Support for
Aid Response to Kincade Fires
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October 28, 2019
The San Francisco Interfaith Council joins all Californians and Americans in our shared concern for the well-being of residents and first responders impacted by the devastating Kincade fires and is carefully monitoring developments. At present more than 4,000 firefighters have been deployed to battle the blaze. Ferocious winds reaching nearly 100 MPH over the weekend turned the fire - now more than 66,000 acres - into a blast furnace that has destroyed more than 96 structures, including 49 homes, with an estimated 80,000 homes under threat. An estimated 185,000 people have been evacuated, with no estimate on when many of them would be able to return home. We are particularly grateful to the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Assumption in San Francisco which is serving as a shelter in our City for fire evacuees.
In times such as these people of faith seek practical ways in which to support their sisters and brothers in need. The SFIC will continue to inform and instruct our constituent houses of worship, judicatories, religious-based academic and healthcare institutions, as well as the faith-based social service agencies, as those particular needs present themselves.
Those seeking to make monetary donations to faith-based and other humanitarian aid organizations presently engaged in responding to those impacted by the Kincade fires are encouraged to explore the efforts being undertaken by such organizations on the "Humanitarian Aid" page of the SFIC website.
Communities of faith are asked to continue to pray for those who have suffered injury and loss, as well as for those first responders who put their lives in harm's way to contain and extinguish these fires.
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