Patricia Guadalupe Columnist

One of the anecdotes of the terrible fires untied in the south of California is the big absence of personnel that was seen, especially at first, when the authorities were trying to fight with the increasing problem. Teams of firemen were working from 15 until 20 daily hours, and in some cases even more. In the faces them one saw the depletion that must be to fight something so dangerous in so long time. One was feeling a real worry, not only for the loss of lives and property but also if the firemen were going to to support physically so many hours without rest.

In cases similar to this disaster, effective of the National Guard normally they go out immediately to help the firemen and police officers in his works. But, since they will be able to imagine, thousands and thousands are not available because they are in Iraq, fighting with this another disaster. And foresee where thousands are more. Defending our south border of the invasion of Mexican terrorists. The governor of Calfornia, Arnold Schwarzenegger, arranged the displacement of 800 soldiers of the National Guard from the border to help the teams most needed from firemen, but it was not until several days later, when it was obvious that the fires were not giving truce and the personnel was not going to be sufficient. Of course if the National Guard had been free from a beginning and immediately, the firemen and other rescatistas would not have had to have spent therefore I work alone.

Another anecdote that has commented to itself on very little is the contribution offered by personnel in another side of the border: Mexican firemen who help his American companions to fight the fires that now spread up to the border. The same day in which the American Senate defeated a measurement that had offered steps towards the legalization of thousands of young undocumented persons, there they were the Mexican firemen doing his contribution and saying are provided with us. Be provided with us in spite of the malagradecidos that are in the federal term in this country.

And to end, let's hope that the republican conferee Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, of the Florida, should be well, after the shake that they gave him in one of the lounges of the Congress. It was she who was with the State Department, Condoleezza Czech Republic, to present it before the committee where he was going to speak about politics of the exterior, when to the Secretary Czech Republic a woman brought over with painting color bleed in the hands and it shouted him “it has you bleed in the hands”. One of the bodyguards almost knocks down conferee Ros-Lehtinen, protecting the Secretary Czech Republic of that one so dangerous painting.