Kurt Nelson
On the Castle Rock fire:
"To me this is a textbook example of how a community pulls together and works as a team. In all of our careers, we’ve never seen anything like this, where a community actually, faced with fire breathing right down on their community, the ability to pull together and actually trust the Forest Service."
On future wildfires:
"I think what we need to recognize is that this is not going to be a one or two year type event, where we have a couple of years of dry weather. We’re entering into a period where we have climate change on the large scale is affecting fire weather on our local or regional basis. And that in turn affects size of fires, length of fire season, how we fight fires. We’re going to have to be much smarter about it. We also need to educate the community on how they behave living in these forested environments that are subject to burning."
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