Alex O'Loughlin Quotes

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Fire has always been and, seemingly, will always remain, the most terrible of the elements.

One day, when we were coming back from school, we saw this big cloud of smoke coming up, and all these fire-trucks in the yard. The garage was burning down. I was 14, and we'd lost everything.

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.

Fire is our first form of technology.

Wildfires are a result of temperature conditions, of soil moisture conditions; and, of course, something has to start it.

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

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

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.

Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

I decline utterly to be impartial as between the fire brigade and the fire.

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.

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

If Europe blazes in the late spring or summer, we must put our house in order before the sparks reach the Western Hemisphere.

I fought fires in the summer, and then I went back and did it again when I went to graduate school.

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

Wildfires can leave the land with burn scars that last for years.