It's a nightmare fighting a fire in a high-rise. We have enough problems with fires from generators at houses.

Houses are just burned down that nobody could ever get to. Instantly, there were 15 or 20 houses on fire at same time and no way to get around to all of them.

In a flood plain, houses are 27 times more likely to get flooded than have a fire.

Houses are cellular walls; they keep our problems from bleeding into everyone else's.

Good morning. Fighting fires. California firefighters try to stop a ferocious wild fire from crossing a freeway and burning its way to the ocean. Under fire: Former Education Secretary William Bennett feeling the heat for saying this on the radio:

When you're out fighting a fire for hours and hours with nothing to eat, nothing to drink, maybe before you left you didn't have your breakfast, its a great place for them to be able to get something.