More updates from jameel (muqata.blogspot.com), earliest on bottom
See here for many pictures:
http://muqata.blogspot.com/Another photo of the fire -- taken from Yitzhar, over 100 km away from the fire. source:
http://rotter.net/forum/scoops1/18656.shtml1:09 AM Sorry for the delay; had a MDA first response call to a car accident on the road.
Israel Radio reports that the Denya neighborhood of Haifa is now being evacuated.
12:07 AM Do you live in Israel and want to help? National Hotline to help families displaced by the fire: 02-652-2222
12:03 AM Egypt offers firefighting support. 200 IDF HomeFront command reserve firefighters drafted under emergency draft rule 8. Haifa Police Chief Ahuva Tomer in critical condition -- hurt during the fire earlier today.
11:45 PM Channel 2 reports that the fire simultaneously started this morning in 3 separate locations.
Strong winds are now driving the fire in the direction of Haifa.
Gilboa Region community of "Ein Harod" setting up tent city to house some of the families evacuated by the fire.
If you live in the Shomron area, you can volunteer to host families by calling the
Shomron Regional Council Emergency Volunteer Hotline
to provide housing assistance for displaced families: 1-700-700-106
11:32 PM MK Ayoub Kara demands the death penalty for the terrorist-arsonists who started the fire.
11:31 PM Emergency Prayer and Tehillim services at the Kotel now, lead by Israeli Chief Rabbis and Rav Ovadya Yosef.
11:29 PM Israel Chemical Company announces it will offer 100% of its fire-fighting chemical stock located in Israel and France to help fight the fire, at no cost.