There was a 1,600-acre fire that our volunteer fire department was trying to fight with garden hoses and grit. We knew we had to get serious about fire protection.

It's a small town without that small-town feeling of people running your life. They're just there to help if you need them. You can do for the community, or you can be a hermit. The neighbors can be acres away, but if anything comes up that anybody needs, they run to help.

Jean wanted it to be money-raiser. What do you do, hold a bake sale? She was the heart and the soul and the business.

Today, Mr. Bennett told us his comments were meant as hypothetical. He says that he was really trying to demonstrate the limitation of one argument by showing the absurdity of another.

You have to go in and fight the fire where it is because you're trying to protect all these improvements.

We've got a great tradition to back up here. We're just trying to keep the fire burning.