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“Hey! You can hit the side of a barn.” Jasper slid in close, flying his helo in the Number Two slot behind Curt’s.
He was also close enough to see the results of the unexpected downdraft over the barn. The faded red barn was an old-style high-peaked roof with a hayloft above and cattle below. The fire-driven wind scooted fast over the top of the tall structure and created a Venturi effect turbulence wake on the backside of the barn. Curt’s load of water had been dumped, and then been sucked into the low pressure zone. Rather than dousing the encroaching fire, it had washed fifty years of grime off the side of the barn.
“Of course you can’t hit the fire to save your life.” Now that Curt’s drop had revealed the effect, Jasper was able to anticipate and use it. He dumped his two hundred
