37 Quotes About Wildfire

So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. We’re on for tomorrow. We’re on for the foreseeable future.”.

Cornelius opened the car door and cautiously peered out.“Yes?” I asked.“Checking to see if it’s safe to come out.”Everyone was a comedian. I sighed and went into my office.

I like that you’re jealous.”“Rogan, put the car back.”“Come to dinner with me tonight and I’ll consider it.”Yes! “No. I don’t negotiate with terrorists.”“If you don’t go to dinner with me, I’ll have to do something drastic like stand by your window with a boom box blasting some idiotically sappy song.

I don’t believe she sees him as family,” Cornelius said.“She can see him however she wants. I only care how Rogan sees me.

So, are we still on tonight? For our dinner?” I asked.“Hell, yes. We’re on for tonight. We’re on for tomorrow. We’re on for the foreseeable future.

In Canada, a little over half the wildfires are started by humans. In the United States, human-started wildfires account for 84 percent of all wildfires, and nearly half of all area that is burned.

For the first time in the US Forest Service's history, more than half the agency's annual appropriated budget was devoted to wildfires in 2015, up from 16 percent in 1995. Nowadays, the US Forest SErvice's annual firefighting budget routinely runs our of money before the fire season ends. With this trend of increasing costs for fighting wildfires expected to continue, two-thirds of the agency's budget will go for this kind of work by 2025.

Canada now spends as much as $1 billion each year fighting fires, five times the amount it spent in the 1990s.

Wildland firefighters do not enjoy the cultural prestige that structural firefighters do. They do not wax their fire engines and cruise down the local parade route, lights flashing; they are not the subject of countless popular books and movies; major politicians do not honor their sacrifices on the Senate floor or from the Rose Garden; they do not have bagpipe bands, fancy equipment, enduring icons, or other signifiers of honor verifying the importance of their activity.