9 Quotes by Scott Peterich

We're calling it the Corbett Trail One Fire.

We have the potential to have a significantly more active fire season ... than we have seen in the past three years.

When a fire goes into the wind, it's called a backfire. This is a slow backfire. It just creeps along?slowly to the west.

It's a situation where you don't want to put equipment in because you are going to get it stuck. You work in an area you believe the fire is heading and put a line in there to stop it.

It's a situation that normally healthy trees were blown down, leaving debris there rotting. Instead of the normal tree branches, we now have trees on the ground.

It's bad enough that just natural fires or accidents or things that happen without anything intentional happening. In this case, there was one mobile home in the area that we made sure was secure and safe, but you know, it endangers our personnel. They're out there in a wildfire situation, and the winds change.

It's a danger we haven't seen in years.

It's a lot easier to start a fire right now.

If you go outside and dig down 8 inches and have pure sand that's where our fires occur. The plants are stressed, the ground is dry and we get these windy days. What could be a little fire could turn into a big fire quickly.