Punky Moore Quotations

What's in this for us is it gives us a new way to monitor some of our fires. You don't always want to put people in those areas, and it reduces the number of flights we have to make to get a good picture of what's happening.

When winds hit a large area of uncontrolled fire lines you really have problems. There's not much land between some of these fires and they can join together. When the fire is not contained, the situation is worrisome.

That's where we're seeing a lot of increased activity now.

It's going to take a lot of precipitation before that will happen.

That's down from 94 just 10 days ago. That's encouraging.

All we're saying is that this is a modifying event -- we're not talking about any end of season yet.