We love to do this sort of thing. It gives us an opportunity to train in a more realistic environment.

When people leave their controlled burns, they should be sticking their hands in there to make sure its cold.

Things are very dry right now - extremely dry. So if anyone does any ditch or field burning, they have to know that it may move faster than they anticipate.

These grass fires are getting very deadly. They burn homes down, they kill people, so this is not something to be taken lightly.

I know it sounds overused, but truthfully, each department is interdependent upon the other. You couldn't have done it without physicians, hospital board and staff members, city council all different stakeholder groups consistently working together.

From our standpoint things have run pretty smoothly. We had all those bikes riding around in the rain (Saturday) night. I would have anticipated more accidents.