Jim Paxon Quotations

But they won't even be allowed out of the van. We've got to mitigate the hazards first.

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.

It can grow two, three, four times what it is presently. This fire is not over. It is out of control. If it's 300,000 acres now, it's only going to get bigger.

With the fire spreading in so many directions it will be a long time before we can get it contained.

We're tying to get ahead of the fire and get to work. We've got to build a 90-mile fire line, and we're not going to get that done today. It's going to take three or four days.

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.

There's so much fire in there we can't let them back in yet. It's not safe.

There's going to be a lot of fire out here for a long time. This fire's going to burn for weeks.

This is grueling for the firefighters. We're getting tired.

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.

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.