The Christian Broadcast Network website reports today (December 7, 2010) that it took four days and aerial aid from 10 countries -- including the United States -- to extinguish the worst fire in Israel's history.
In the end, 42 people were killed, 12,500 acres of forestland destroyed, 250 homes damaged, and more than $50 million in damage caused, reports said.
By the morning of December 6, rain began falling in the Carmel region just south of Haifa, helping to end the deadly blaze.
It is still not certain how the fire started. Authorities arrested two teenage brothers on suspicion they had intentionally set the fire.
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