Jamie Hyneman Quotes

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

I'm a medevac pilot. I have spent time suppressing wildfires and things like that. And as a combat pilot, I tend to find the biggest bucket of water I can find and put it on the biggest fire I can find, right?

The quality of our Airmen in Montana coupled with the proven mission excellence of the 120th Airlift Wing, and historical need for assets to fight the devastating forest fires we continue to see in Montana and the Northwest United States, should have mandated the relocation of these assets to Montana.

Arizona's forest fires are not waiting for April, and neither will we. That is why I am pushing for stepped up deployment for Hot Shot wildfire crews in March rather than April, in order to better prepare for the expected fires in northern Arizona.

Every fire hydrant in the country will be concerned.

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

Remote fountains are of little help to nearby fires

If the house is on fire, and the fireman shows up, you don't question his color or credentials. You don't send him back to the firehouse and say, 'Send somebody else.'

The ability to reach a catastrophic forest fire quickly can not only save millions in fire suppression costs, it can save structures and, most importantly, lives.

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

You wait until the forest fire is on your front step before you step up.

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

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.

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.

It is not acceptable that we continue to see thousands of acres burn because of forest fires, because of poor management on our forests, big kill, and we have these catastrophic situations take place when we are not able to take action.

Eastern Washington has experienced a number of deadly forest fires this season, and it is crucial that we have bipartisan legislation that will expedite the research and restoration process.

I used to work in a fire hydrant factory. You couldn't park anywhere near the place.

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.

When I was 6 years old, we were lighting firecrackers in the backyard and started a fire. My brother ran out and was pulling water from the creek and pouring it on the fire with a 7-Eleven Big Gulp cup.

NSW is always guided by the experts. It's not for politicians to decide how we manage hazard reduction or back burning operations.

When I was shooting for the film 'No Problem,' there was a fire on the sets and I had some burn injuries in my leg.

Due to climate change, wildfires are growing in size, frequency, and intensity, and wildfire seasons are becoming longer.

I grew up in a small village in the west of Ireland.

The sanctions which the West introduced against Russia seriously affect us.

It's kind of cool that I know of all this great science fiction being written in China, and most of it is not really well-known in the West.