- Ann Webster: My husband, my son and four other boys are out in the desert camping somewhere. They have no idea what's going on here. Look at me! Please. I've been to every other agency in the city for help. All I've gotten is the runaround. Now I want to know EXACTLY what you're going to do to find them!
- Wayne Lustus: Nothing.
- Ann Webster: What do you mean?
- Wayne Lustus: What I mean is I only have so much time and so much manpower, and I cannot afford the luxury of chasing around for...
- Ann Webster: THEY"RE CHILDREN!
- Wayne Lustus: Five children. Only five. I've got a whole city to worry about.
- [posted on a gas pump in evacuated desert area]
- sign: To anyone crazy enough to be standing here reading this: help yourself!
- Jason Voight: Breaker breaker, this is Jason Voight, who have I got here?
- Radio Dispatcher: You've got trouble buddy, this channel is for emergency use only, clear it!
- Jason Voight: Well I'm sitting here at ground zero with 30 Pima Indians and one Chevy Impala, what would you call that?
- Radio Dispatcher: What are you doing there?
- Jason Voight: Oh you know, making baskets, selling rugs, Look just get us out of here!
- Jason Voight: [looking over a map of shelters in Phoenix] How much can these shelters take?
- Wayne Lustus: It varies. What we do is we survey building basements, underground garages, places like that. Then we get emergency releases from the owners.
- Jason Voight: Do you rate them?
- Wayne Lustus: By a protection factor of 1 to 100, based on how much shock and radiation they can withstand. The reds are 75 to 100, the blues are 50 to 75, and the greens and the yellows...
- Jason Voight: Now translate that protection factor in Richter terms. Which ones could hold against an 8-point quake?
- Wayne Lustus: [shocked] Eight? Only the reds.
- Jason Voight: Don't put people in anything else. Otherwise, you'd be herding them into coffins.