Tom Watson Quotes

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.

Big fires flare up in a wind, but little ones are blown out unless they are carried in under cover.

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

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 put a bushfire out. It was one of the most incredible things, terrifying. We get them a lot in Australia.

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

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 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.

With better gear, firefighters no longer surround and drown a fire - they go in.

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

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

If my house is on fire, I don't need the fire chief telling me I should not have built the house out of wood. I need somebody to put the fire out.

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the 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.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

Fire is our first form of technology.

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

If my house was on fire, I can't compromise about which part of the house I'm going to save. You save the whole house or it will all burn down. We either save this country or we do not.

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.

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.

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.

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires