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"Drake Trustler, where is he? Still in the arabs one We have to concentrate on Captain Wolfe"

I can hear Mrs Ross sobbing in the other room "No!" she says over and over "No!" She had become quite close to Drake when he was her assistant

"Are you sure?" Tears co so hard to get well, to get over his lung probleet down the mountain to alert us about the fire He died a hero That’s what’s iht he ith Captain Wolfe"

"He was planning to go up with hiht the blaze The trench is halfway down to the creek, but the fire is et the o back and help We need everyone!" He stops to get a drink of water from the bucket

"Do you think we should send a couple of the corpset to a telephone? Mrs Stone’s farm is only twenty h, Becky They’re fanned by the wind so they flatten out, then swoop to the earth and catch on the dry underbrush The boys would never asoline in the truck would explode If I ever wondered what hell would be like, I kno!"

Terror

"Mrs Ross, can you help et the rest of the captain’s burned clothing off"

"Oh, honey, I don’t think I can" The poor lady wipes her eyes with her wet hanky, and peeks through her fingers as if trying to o away "He was such a nice one, but the captain’s still alive Just get over here and help et tonight"

"I can help" It’s Snake sitting up on his cot

I give up on Mrs Ross for a et you a chair and you cut the rest of his trousers off Be very gentle I’ll take off his boots Look at the leather soles! They’re alh!"

When I first see the brave captain’s legs, I let out a long sigh From the top of his boots to the top of his knees his skin is black and peeling His upper thighs have a mass of blisters and his hands too His face isn’t so bad and neither is the back of his legs or his trunk

I share what I knoith Snake "The first rule of thu burn injury isif more than thirty percent of the body is covered in burns, the patient will lose too o into shock, so our task is to try to keep that froive hiht, we must worry about infection This will be a close one"

"Hello! Hello!" Mrs Ross is on the shortwave radio again, cranking away If only the ould calht be able to make a connection "Can anyone hear me?! This is CCC Camp White Rock Dammit! Pick up! We have a wildfire here and we need help!"