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It took them over a month to make it back to Hood River, Oregon. Once the storm had cleared Yangyang Airfield, which Robin deeply hoped to never see again, they flew back across the Sea of Japan. They didn’t go to Nagoya, because the Dreamlifter always traveled fully loaded on the return flight to the US, but instead turned south for Kadena Air Base on Okinawa.
From there, a C-5 Galaxy Air Force transport had delivered them to Joint Base Fort–Lewis McChord in Washington State. At McChord, Denise scrounged up the last of the parts she needed before she’d declared Firehawk Oh-One fit to fight fire once more.
Instead of heading two hundred miles south, they first had to fly north and over the Cascade Mountains to rejoin the rest of the MHA crew. The Leavenworth fire had been beaten,
