Edward Callahan Quotations

We'll be back out there tomorrow, might be a day or two yet,

(Monday) the fire got running a little but and we weren't able to get line entirely in place, ... We now have a line across the top of the fire.

It appears to be railroad caused fire, ... What malfunction and what happened no one knows. The exact cause we will determined once it's extinguished.

We have two dozers work on a line from the top, the fire is spotty, ... There's a lot of spots where it has not burned yet.

We're at Mother Nature's mercy, until it rains, ... We could use all the water in Somerset County and it would still burn.

We will investigate it as soon as we can get a chance,

It's somewhere in the order of 150 to 180 acres, ... It's a long skinny fire. It's runs the length from Fairhope to Bedford

It's such a long fire and the head of the fire is in a very remote and a hard area,

It's not a solid wall of flames, ... Its burning up through hollows, as the fire goes upslope, it fans out to the side. As it gets to the top it's wider. Some areas will never burn.

The fire creates its own uptrack, ... It's one of our worst areas.

The last I heard, they had it in control, ... There's part of it burning within there, he has a control line just about finished up top.