US Forest Service Official on Caldor Fire: 'It's the end of the beginning'

Dean Gould, a supervisor with the U.S. Forest Service, said the fire's growth over the past day, 2,350 acres, was the fourth straight day of declines in the growth rate. The last time it grew that small was 14 days ago, he said. “Things are clearly heading in the right direction for us,” he said. He went on to paraphrase a Winston Churchill quotation about World War II, saying, “This isn’t the end. It’s not the beginning of the end. It’s the end of the beginning.”