“So, that was really a ‘baby’ fire?” he waved in exactly the right compass direction indicating a good sense of where he was both indoors and out. He had strong arms, looked very fit; give her a month and she could make him a damn fine firefighter.
“Good for training. This crew was only formed up five weeks ago and the season is just starting up here. Arizona is the one being hammered right now. New Mexico and Colorado will be next. Nevada and Utah don’t really have enough to burn. But that’s only general patterns. We could light up tomorrow. Normally we would have let the locals deal with something the size of this morning’s fire, maybe send a couple of guys to assist.”
He looked right and left. Looked down at his beer for a moment.
Patsy had seen this reaction before. Despite Candace’
