Often the crews only realize that there are special requirements when they reach the scene, and have to call for heavy-duty equipment, costing extra time.

Fire crews are telling me that there is a helicopter on scene and they are telling me there is nothing they can do at this point but just let it burn. The good news is that there are not structures in the area.

In youth, everything seems possible; but we reach a point in the middle years when we realize that we are never going to reach all the shining goals we had set for ourselves, with what grace we can, to living with our ulcers and arthritis, our sense

The Columbia accident made us realize that we had been playing Russian roulette with the shuttle crews -- that we had been very, very fortunate in the past that the foam did not cause critical damage.

The call came in as a man reporting an accidental shooting and apparently when deputies went on scene there must have been something suspicious about it because they determined it was not an accident and they called homicide and now the guy is in custody.

When I was snorting coke up my nose, they didn't call me crazy. When I said I saw Jesus, that's when they said I was crazy.