31.   The agency also has lost the money raked in by Slide Rock State Park in Oak Creek Canyon, which was closed earlier this month because of fire danger.

32.   The city council insists that the policy has created an eyesore and that four-foot-high grass harbors insects and increases fire danger.

33.   The calls came from people they know by name and face residents kept out because the fire danger was still too high.

34.   The fire danger was fueled by a heat wave that sent temperatures to record levels in San Francisco, Oakland, Alameda, Monterey, Salinas and Shelter Cove.

35.   The fire danger will only worsen as summer approaches, he said.

36.   The fire danger will remain high in Florida.

37.   The fire danger is exacerbated by land parched by a dismal rain season and two months without a drop of rain.

38.   The fire danger was heightened by the opening of hundreds of fire hydrants by overheated residents.

39.   The fire danger in Southern California ranges from very high to extreme, said Matt Mathes, a spokesman for the Forest Service.

40.   The forests were closed last year because of fire danger.