Ryan Zinke Quotes

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

There is nothing Federal about local volunteer fire departments.

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'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.

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.'

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

If your house is burning, wouldn't you try and put out the fire?

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.

When your neighbour's house is on fire, you should help with a bucket of water.

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.

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

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

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?

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