Marc Racicot Fires Quotations

Matters have just gotten more grave and more serious, ... Potentially, these fires could last into the fall, until we receive snow. We're planning for the worst of circumstances.

Some of the fires are so hot, so challenging, that it's difficult for us to make any progress,

We have a lot of communities that are located in these forested area and we're going to have to focus on making sure that they're protected almost exclusively now because these forest fires have gotten so out of control,

We have a lot of communities that are located in these forested areas, and we're going to have to focus on making sure that they're protected almost exclusively now because these forest fires have gotten so out of control,

We've had to shift strategies from a containment strategy to one that focuses almost exclusively on the protection of people and property, which means that a lot of these fires are going to burn for a substantial period of time.