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It's not cheap to fight fires day after day after day with no end in sight. We know the bill's coming and we're going to be prepared to pay it.

Paul Sund

It's not the way we're trained, ... It's just wrong. ... My job is to put out fires, not to watch them burn.

Jerry Jensen

We see a lot of fires around Christmastime.

Bob Scott

We are still very dry and people do need to call before they burn anyway and make sure they do contain these fires when they are burning.

Chris Hoffman

There's going to be a lot of fire out here for a long time. This fire's going to burn for weeks.

Jim Paxon

House fires go up significantly in cold weather.

Nancy Smith

I've known pastures where farmers have lost winter feed because of hay fires.

Sam Knipp

You don't have your depth of resources that can go in and manage these very complex fires.

Gary Gilbert

We have no direct evidence linking the two fires.

Josh Friedman

When you have the global fire department and there are no fires, then you're not so busy.

Michael Mussa

The digestive fires are the strongest at the same time the sun is highest in the sky.

Peter Trivelas

Elsewhere, the number of fires is alarming.

S. P. Saxena

It's still active. We're not reporting any containment of the fires just yet.

Carrie Atchison

We may start to get more spot fires.

Dorn Whitmore

Why that is important is because on some fires those additional treatments aren't carried out due to lack funds.

Dan Donato

The fires there were contained and no longer were a threat prior to a declaration being made.

Joy Moser

There are still some small bund (concrete container) fires, but the tanks are out.

Roy Wilsher

Anything that is burned or ignited can cause fires.

David Howard

You really have to want it. I like the fires and the excitement. I want to be in Aurora, Chicago or New York. I just want to be in a really busy fire department.

Jake Sporna

There are some very suspicious circumstances surrounding these fires.

Ted Denny

Husbands are like fires - they go out when unattended.

Zsa Zsa Gabor

It's the jacket we wear when we go into fires. It's part of the entire outfit.

John Hoag

The fires of unrest rather than putting them out.

Patrick Dean

It was so smoky. I was a little freaked out because we were on the top of that mountain, and we could see the smoke from all the fires.

Kelly Stone

It's an annual event, and all those fires are preventable.

Robin Alford

Roads are not only crucial in fighting forest fires but also in promoting forest health.

Matt Raymond

Fires have broken out everywhere, ... We just have to watch them. Our trucks can't reach them.

Anthony Collins

There's all that dead stuff from last year. That's what starts fires.

Brian Lovejoy

Some of the fires are so hot, so challenging, that it's difficult for us to make any progress.

Marc Racicot

It has to do with the severity and frequency of bad fires. It's a choice, but it's always tempered with the costs.

Don Artley

When you're fighting these fires, you're drained. It just takes everything out of you.

Jerry Wood

Now we've got everything like chemical suits and tools on this truck, ... It does everything except fight fires. The red ones put out the fires.

Jim Stone

The fires have been extinguished, but it is up to each and every one of us to see they are never lit again.

Gerhard Weinberg

All these hoodlums see others setting fires and say they can do it, too.

Patrick Hamon

They set fires in a city that has no water, which blows our minds.

Melinda Shiraki

I've done made a deal with the devil. He said he's going to give me an air-conditioned place when I go down there, if I go there, so I won't put all the fires out.

Red Adair

We've been able to do a fairly god job under the circumstances I think, in fact an excellent job under the circumstances of controlling those fires. That's just what you have to do is just be able to have the resources to get out and fight those fires.

David Kemp

We applaud federal and state law enforcement for their tireless work in making these arrests concerning the Alabama church fires.

Patrick J. Mahoney

Divine fires do not blaze each day, but an artist functions in their afterglow hoping for their recurrence.

Ned Rorem

We fight fires aggressively, and when you get inside a building, sometimes you put yourself at risk. A fire can have a mind of its own.

Robert Erspamer

Fires at houses of worship continue. Arrests continue to be made. And defendants continue to be prosecuted and convicted.

James Johnson

All three fires are believed to have been caused by arson.

Pat Barry

This is our fire season, and fires take precedence over anything else we do.

Matthew Bennett

Grass fires. Structure fires. We've been busy all day long. We anticipate it will be a busy week.

Roland Asebedo

It's all well and good to be dedicated, but volunteer firefighters should always make sure they are healthy enough to fight fires.

Ronnie Day

Fortunately, there weren't any big fires.

Jonny Lee Miller

Once the fires got going, it was easy for them to get out of control.

Ray Yeakley

We'll be mostly putting out fires.

Rease Watson

If the world seems cold to you, kindle fires to warm it.

Lucy Larcom

We're suppressing about 50 percent of our fires, and there are good reasons why we are suppressing them.

Steve Wirt

Another night, in September, we had eight fires in a row.

Jeff Price

There are a couple fires under the pot, and I feel we'll know something shortly.

Kathy Huttel

90% of the fires in the US are residential fires. There is a residential fire every 30 minutes in the US.

Toby Miller

People are tired, but they're doing OK. They're trained to fight fires, so they can handle it.

Mary Apple

They live together, train together and then fly or drive to fires all over the country.

Julena Campbell

Burns will be easier to start; fires will be faster and carry more easily.

Chuck Maxwell

We can do rescue, fight fires, get out there and do any job we do on land and do it on the water.

Rob Popkin

In retrospect, it is clear that fallout from the oil well fires could affect detection equipment and could have caused many of the chemical alerts recorded by the 11th Marines.

Bernard Rostker

It was one of the great fires in Galesburg's downtown history.

Bob Harrison

Just hold on to them, because that could cause damage to a lot of equipment and possibly cause some fires.

David Eisenhauer

We connect our hearts and our minds with these fires, and that's who we do that, and that's how we become one.

Sam George

This is definitely going to stop (fires).

Brian Lovejoy

It's still warm and the winds are still blowing and we still have fires.

Ron Haralson

We'd like to set up some courses for people to train them. We also have fires and floods here.

Paulette Loomis

It could be somebody running around lighting these fires. It is very upsetting.

Paul Mcgee

Several of these fires got away and were burning very close to homes and communities.

Rich Coleman

We're already seeing the benefits of larger fires keeping new fires smaller.

Steve Wirt

I can't tell you how fast these fires have ignited. It's just crazy.

Traci Weaver

The fires are worse now than they were two days ago.

Greg Edwards

We don't want any fires in the Meadows. What we want are for the kids to use the judgment in their brains.

Aaron Fetrow

We have had fires underground but none that we can remember that have been this tricky.

Marshall Hamilton

It's been across the city and across the board. We've had fires in every range of home.

Matt Stanley

They used the wrong kind of dynamite and it started more fires.

Aimee Klask

Myself, I prefer life without fires, without nocturnal panics.

Juvenal

Chimney fires are very dangerous, and more times than not can make chimneys unusable.

John Mickel

One of the biggest fires we had in 1985 was actually started by a beer bottle that had been reflecting sunlight and then it bounced off and started a fire.

Victor Hill

We let them do every thing except drive or fight structure fires. After they turn 18 if we evaluate them and it's possible they can join the department.

John Mcmakin

My teammates get me fired me up. The sport fires me up man, I love lacrosse. I love being out here.

Eric Tyler

The biggest advantage we've had has been that we've gotten a handle on many of the fires. It slowed those fires down and we've been able to do more activities to put the fire out.

E. Lynn Burkett