Francis de Sales Quotes

I'd rather fight 100 structure fires than a wildfire. With a structure fire you know where your flames are, but in the woods it can move anywhere; it can come right up behind you.

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the fire.

In open range fires it is about picking a spot and hoping it is the right location. At the head of the fire you have to worry about wind and humidity and a number of other factors.

What we need as much as money is consensus about how we live [with fire] in that countryside [prone to forest fires] or at least agreement about how to decide…. More than 72,000 communities are at risk and only 20% have a plan for protection.

People say to me, 'Why don't you fight fire with fire?' You fight fire with water, not fire.

Fire, as we have learned to our cost, has an insatiable hunger to be fed. It is a nonliving force that can even locomote itself.

Fire is our first form of technology.

Your own safety is at stake when your neighbor's wall is ablaze.

I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.

I'm cautious about using fire. It can become theatrical. I am interested in the heat, not the flames.

They have under invested in fire for so long that the catch up costs seem staggering. The traditional inclination is to rely on emergency interventions rather than systemic reforms.

I am used to playing with fire. Somebody has to do it.

California must be a really big fan of the 'Hunger Games.' Because it's always catching fire.

I grew up in Sedgefield, which is in the heart of the area along the Garden Route that has been ravaged by fire.

Fire is the best of servants, but what a master!

Of the over 100,000 wildfires that happen in the U.S. each year, not a single one would get started without the fire triangle: Oxygen, heat and fuel. Fire needs all three to exist. It's like the three branches of our government: Legislative, judicial and executive. The fewer there are, the safer we are.

The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.

A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

It is known that wildfires behave unpredictably - this is fundamental - but it is my experience that humans in the presence of wildfire are also likely to behave in aberrant and unpredictable ways.

It is difficult to determine the cause of grass fires. There is usually nothing left behind when we get there, like a cigarette or a gas can, for us to determine what started it.

The professional arsonist builds vacant lots for money.

The closest fires were near enough for us to hear the crackling flames and the yells of firemen. Little fires grew into big ones even as we watched. Big ones died down under the firemen's valor only to break out again later.

If you take 67 brush fires times 10 years, that's almost 700 right there. Those brush fires are incredibly dangerous, all those homes going down proved that.

I've burned the trash a few times and it got away from me. I've caught the yard on fire. I've burnt up some acreage and had to call the fire department a couple of times.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.