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Sitting comfortably at my desk, leisurely enjoying my second cuppa. A low rumble in the distance quickly becomes a window-rattling roar. Another air tanker returning to base, the third, no, the forth one this morning. Forty-three year old memories flood back like water from a fire hose. Acrid smoke mixes with the choking red dust as we dig the fire line, four feet wide, down to mineral earth. Cut and move, cut and move, twelve men inches their way towards the ridgeline like some mutant caterpillar. The sudden harmonic roar of straining engines is our only warning. We duck our heads, eyes tightly shut. Engines scream at the sudden release of 8 tons of retardant. The thick florescent pink rain pours over us as the big tanker, released of its heavy burden, surges forward. We are up as the last of the pink mist falls around us. Cut and move, cut and move.
Posted on: Sun, 03 Aug 2014 17:32:04 +0000

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