Chapter Twenty-Two
“Knew you still had some tricks up your sleeve!”
Despite his being dressed in casual slacks and a plain men’s shirt, Ripley resisted the desire to do something unkind to Rear Admiral Parker. They were all squatting in the back of Firehawk Oh-one reviewing the footage that Steve had captured on the drone’s night-vision cameras. Ripley wasn’t going to admit anything out loud, but she was pretty damned pleased with herself.
It had taken two more days to beat the fire, but without someone egging it along, it hadn’t taken long to kill off the last heads of the wildfire.
She’d personally made a point of checking on the doline jungle of Son Doong Cave several times during the firefight and found one other fire there that she nipped quickly enough. Not having a replacement w
