Chapter Twenty-Seven
Mack
My worst fears proved to be unfounded. Although Krista was never far from my thoughts that night during those long hours, my instincts from training kicked in. No one died. There were several injuries to deal with and a complicated rescue that involved ferrying people up the cliff face in supported stretchers. At one point, we contemplated whether a transport by boat would be quicker but ruled it out due to time and darkness. This river wasn’t an easy river to traverse in the daylight, so trying to do it in the dark would only make it more treacherous.
As predicted, it had been a boat full of high school boys, and every last one of them was drunk. One of them sustained a head injury when the boat crashed into the rocks, and another had broken his shoulder when
