To our Green Brook family, she and Vern were called very affectionately Mr. and Mrs. Green Brook, ... She gave so much to our town and was always there if something needed to be done.
We were basically on the edges of roads. When the wind starts kicking up again, any of those fires could get pushed on to roads and in to grass.
I was still working on my last entry on Wednesday night before the convention opened on Thursday. So, it was a long, hard struggle to get where I was.
We suspended every kid we could ascertain had been drinking.
Our wives are home taking care of everything by themselves. It's a hardship on the wives as well.
We pulled the kids in and took the appropriate action.
Two years ago, I had to make the call to my wife explaining that our two-week vacation was canceled. It's not always easy - everyone has plans and things they want to do.
Two years ago, I had to make the call to my wife explaining that our two-week vacation was canceled, ... It's not always easy - everyone has plans and things they want to do.
We were watching to make sure nothing pops up. The winds - you never know what they're going to do. Winds can actually push fires back down the hill.
We will have the lovely view of a bridge. We have the lovely view of the water.
That's what we do - when they call us, we go, ... We all have a bag sitting in our locker, shoved with clothes. We got in the rig and we were out of town in less than 30 minutes.
This is probably the best thing that could have happened to the citrus industry. The fruit is going to be larger than normal. That benefits the grower because you get more weight.
A lot of this fire was fought with helicopters,
They got us accommodations in a hotel room.
It's heartbreaking when you finish a project like that after 10 years, you can't even enjoy it for two weeks,
If you don't get good sleep, you're not going to do the best job the next morning. Your out there for 24 hours - you're not getting any sleep.
I just wanted to come and take third. After losing (in the winner's bracket), I felt like I had to give everything here. You can tell by the wounds on my face that I wasn't going to leave anything behind. I'm happy to leave my senior year with a third-place medal.
The figure of 183,000 is (the commission's) upper-bound estimate of total conflict-related mortality.