Originally Posted by
Jan in VA
Check this site for quilt guilds in Kansas; scroll down a bit for the list and contact info.
http://www.quiltguilds.com/kansas.htm
We are having some forest fires in this part of Virginia, too, due to very dry weather and winds, but, so far, not so big or serious. Best wishes for your state.
Jan in VA
thanks Jan for this info--there is a guild in Medicine Lodge, the town in the center of the fire, and I will purpose at my next Guild meeting in a couple of weeks, that we send down disaster quilts for the 6 families that have lost their homes and everything in it.
The fire is (as of Sat. afternoon) 30% contained in Barbour Co and almost totally in Comanche Co--the winds have died back to about 15mph which has allowed the KS National Guard to bring in helicopters with capabilities of gathering water from ponds and dumping on the front edges and into those canyon places that firefighters can't easily get to by vehicle or foot. While they did not get the rain last night or this morning that the fell east of the fires, they may get some tonight
Farmers throughout the state have trucked in hay and now the call is for donations to the farm associations to pay for fencing (not covered by any insurances). Unfortunately, smaller fires have broken out in other parts of the state (further west and around the Hutchinson/Newton area). Making headway,but still very scary! For those of us that live in the Plains and rely upon volunteer fire dept that often have to cover a huge area, wild fires are so very scary (even more than tornadoes!)