Jamie Kritzer Quotations

Certainly, people can wait a while before burning their vegetation. We need a good, soaking rain -- really, a few, probably -- before people can breathe a little sigh of relief.

We mapped it with GPS, global positioning system, after some of the smoke had cleared out and we found it was smaller than we had originally thought.

Heck, even when you put a burn ban in, that's not going to be the be-all, end-all. You're going to have people burning anyway.

Yesterday, we would have said, 'No.' It was very dry. We had single-digit relative humidity and it was extremely dry.

You can look across the state and what may normally be a fire that didn't escape, that a landowner could contain, you're seeing fires that are getting away from folks. We're looking at a real critical period in North Carolina.

We could be looking at a very heavy spring fire season.

We are studying the weather hard every day. If this weather model continues, it may become prudent for us to reconsider whether to have a burning ban.

That is wonderful news given the proximity to some of the homes out there.

It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.

I don't see a lot of relief in sight. We need rain -- badly.