As part of Fire Prevention Week, the Santa Maria Fire Department hosted an open house Saturday, where the community gathered to tour the facility, watch a car extrication demonstration and meet the personnel who put their lives on the front line to save others.
In Iraqi orphanages, you find all the ways that war wreaks its destruction, embodied in the most innocent of faces: Children of those killed, children born of rape, children abandoned in the chaos of battle. There are also the children of the enemy.
