Summertime Horrors. Fires

 

Kelowna, BC. RIGHT NOW.

Have a friend named Toby

In younger days he had

A job out of Timmins

Fighting forest fiires.

The call would come 

And men in very precise procedure

Raced to to the choppers.

And they were gone.

Some brief details from

Lands and Forests

Fire characteristics and location

And movement direction

That was it.

Very little talking.

Thoughts drifting back to

Previous episodes of

Hazard, near entrapments

Lucky breaks with

Winds or rain.

Racing hose lines to the maximum

Distance from water pumps.

Ministry was on a strict 

Budget alotment per fire.

When the money was use up.

They packed up.

Hoping that backfires set

Would choke out the Enemy.

Sometimes neighbourhoods of houses

Were at stake.

Residents evacuated.