The outbreak is the worst in summer since 1994, when bush fires ringing Sydney roared into the suburbs, killing four people.
There are no actual bullets whizzing around here, of course — as you mash the button to fire your machine gun, LEDs at the front of your car pulse and the sounds of bullets firing rings from your iPhone's speakers.
"I dunno," Layton said, standing over the fire ring.
The campsites were van-size dirt parking spots, each with a fire ring and picnic table.
There are no hookups, but there is a fire ring at each site.
Three generations of a family picnicked near a fire ring a few yards away, their table stacked with soda, chips, beach towels and children's toys.
The environmental protection commissioner, Lisa P. Jackson, placed restrictions on all campfires unless they are contained within a stone or metal fire ring.
A search is under way for the person or people who built the crude fire ring to cook hot dogs and then left it, without any apparent attempts to snuff it out.
When reading, he doesn't look up if a one-alarm, or a two-alarm fire ring out on his bedroom gong; a three-alarm arrests his attention for a minute.
Sean Stogner, a member of both Kostume Kult and NYC Sparkworks, deftly maneuvered his fire ring, spinning it around his wrist in a frenzy, passing it around his back and under a leg.
The sites are pretty basic--flat forest floor, parking, a picnic table, and fire ring.
