| 1 | Refugees making their way across the nearby border to Turkey spoke similarly of a scorched earth policy. | |
| 2 | Santa Ana winds continue to fan the blaze as it scorched nearly 189 square miles. | |
| 3 | Along the river, rice and wheat fields have turned to baked dirt. Canals have dwindled to shallow streams, and fishing boats sit on dry land. | |
| 4 | At the same time the kind of scorched-earth lifestyle transformation some environmentalists demand is more than most of us are willing to embrace. | |
| 5 | I travelled through my burning land and saw with my own eyes the pain of the victims, and heard with my own ears the screams of the orphans and the bereaved. |