John Glover 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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

A litle wind kindles; much puts out the 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.

Fire is our first form of technology.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

Like, yes, we had a furniture fire get out of control in our backyard one time. But that didn't harm a single person.

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.

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

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.