10 Quotes by Jamie Kritzer

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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

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    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.

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    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.

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

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