Fire season

On Wednesday morning when I got to work there was some smoke around. I guess this is why-Fire destroys 16 houses

House fire

On Sunday morning I got a text from a girl at church saying she had something to tell me today. It turned out her and her neighbour hood woke up at 2.30am and grabbed some of their things. A house was on fire near by but thankfully it didn't spread to any other houses and no one died. Its hard for fire trucks to get down small streets, and maybe they wouldn't bother trying if the houses were small and wooden, those people couldn't afford to pay them much?

Homeless

I feel like I'm always seeing pictures of Cambodians carrying all their belongings down the road. The other night on the news we saw some footage from a fire in Phnom Penh. At least 25 houses burnt down a few days ago so we saw many people carrying big bags and some furniture. Don't know where they were going? Then the weekend before the Dey Grahom slum was evicted forcefully (more over here). A few months ago we saw photos of people who live near the border in Preah Vihear  all loaded up and leaving their homes. The latest on the border dispute is that there have been some more talks, you can read about it here. (For more on this dispute see Khmer/Thai relations on our main blog.)