With the fire spreading in so many directions it will be a long time before we can get it contained.
There's going to be a lot of fire out here for a long time. This fire's going to burn for weeks.
We didn't go up in our containment any. But the feeling is that with these thunderstorm developments ... that we need one more day to go up on that containment.
Fire went through there raging. It was running a mile-and-a-half-an-hour through the ponderosa pine.
It's still a concern because we want to stop this fire. At this point there are no structures, no dwellings, no people at risk on the entire perimeter of the fire.
There's so much fire in there we can't let them back in yet. It's not safe.
If that happens, we'll have a 20- to 25-mile front. That is daunting because it's just that much bigger to burn forward.
This is grueling for the firefighters. We're getting tired.
The fire's going to raise its head and get up and run today. We are very much not in control. Nature is in control.
The fire is three times the size it was at noon on Wednesday. We are not going to get in front of the fire and attack it. This fire will go where it will.
