31.   Adventurous by nature, they dance with death in tightly controlled fashion -- stepping into the sky to fight fire in the deep wilderness.

32.   After the Storm King incident, Babbitt personally joined crews fighting fires in Colorado and Washington state, and made a study of the issue.

33.   All these deaths have had a humbling effect on the men and women who fight fires.

34.   But after fighting fires this summer, he left Rocky Boy again for Oklahoma, afraid he might gamble away his earnings there.

35.   But because of certain difficulties in pursuing that career path, he decided to do what he thought was the next best thing, which was fighting fires.

36.   But from the time the younger Louis was a small boy, he dreamed of spending his life fighting fires.

37.   But he said that as far as he knew, the greatest obstacle to fighting the fire at the Harlem store came from gunfire.

38.   But he has seen and experienced more in the past two days than he will in a lifetime of fighting fires.

39.   But Hotshots are trained to fight fires, not formulate policy, and many of them would like to keep it that way.

40.   But it was not fighting fires that appealed to him.