Melendez continued with the conversation, anyway. "Where am I supposed to get the help?" she cried. She cursed the phone and slid it into the carrying case on her hip. Melendez knew the answer, already. She turned to her team, "Earl, you and the rest stay here. You know what to do. Arnie, you come with me."
Jeremiah entertained a dreadful thought. If those deaths resulted from the same toxic cloud, as he feared, then the gas maintained a frightening potency as it dissipated, and now jeopardized an expanding area, or it did not dissipate at all. He prayed that the latter be true. At least they could track it down. For the last hour, the wind blew steadily from the southeast, pushed ahead by the hurricane, and nudging the cloud in a relatively straight line. However, once the turbulence str
