Once the fires got going, it was easy for them to get out of control.
We are averaging as many as 15 brush fires a week. We can't always determine the exact cause, but the biggest offender is people flicking cigarette butts out of their cars.
More than anything, it just taps our resources. If you get anything else going on, it just straps the whole county as far as fire protection.
Those fires didn't just start. Somebody started them.
At one time in Flagler County, we lost more than 50 homes in one night's time. It just depended on the conditions, how big the fire was at the time, how severe and how big an impact it made.