Jamie Kritzer
Jamie Kritzer
scenario winds
It was just a scenario of where the winds changed. We would not have proceeded if we thought the wind was going to change.
rain relief
I don't see a lot of relief in sight. We need rain -- badly.
breathe burning people rain sigh wait
Certainly, people can wait a while before burning their vegetation. We need a good, soaking rain -- really, a few, probably -- before people can breathe a little sigh of relief.
ban burn burning people
Heck, even when you put a burn ban in, that's not going to be the be-all, end-all. You're going to have people burning anyway.
fire heavy looking spring
We could be looking at a very heavy spring fire season.
extremely relative
Yesterday, we would have said, 'No.' It was very dry. We had single-digit relative humidity and it was extremely dry.
burning hard model prudent studying weather whether
We are studying the weather hard every day. If this weather model continues, it may become prudent for us to reconsider whether to have a burning ban.
cleared found global mapped originally smaller smoke
We mapped it with GPS, global positioning system, after some of the smoke had cleared out and we found it was smaller than we had originally thought.