"This is turning out to be one hell of a fire."

"This is turning out to be one hell of a fire."
Rick Gentry, 43
A resident of Apple Valley, Calif., who arrived at a shelter in two pickup trucks with his wife, Gail, and their two daughters, three dogs and a rabbit named Thumper.
"I am not afraid of these people."
Iraqi policeman Sgt. Akeel Muteb
Who was awarded the Iraqi equivalent of a Purple Heart after surviving an Oct. 9 suicide car bombing on a police station in Sadr City, a Shiite neighborhood, that killed three officers and five other civilians.
"This young boy had the good Lord riding on his shoulder that day."
Martin Eichelberger
The doctor at Children's Hospital in Washington who operated on then 13-year-old Iran Brown, who survived being shot during the Washington, D.C.-area sniper spree.