Gaia's messenguer.

The oiler accident, part 3.

He told them to bring shovels to try to put out the fire with earth, surrounding and enclosing it, which threatened to expand. He looked at Mike and Edgar as they hurriedly connected hoses to a water pump, and took the tip of the hose and directed it towards the fire. help those who were already shoveling dirt at the base of the fire, it was useless to try to get too close, since the heat radiation emitted by the burner was unbearable, he asked Edgar to help him carry the heavy fire hose towards the fire and surrounded the burner, to be able to spray with water the burned part of the jungle that was within reach of the hose, while the other workers enabled another hose and another pump, they entered the fire, reckless and ready to extinguish until the last spark of that fire.

-Edgar, to the base! –He yelled at her. -At the base of the fire, we have to attack it from here to return it, if we manage to cool the base of the fire it will be easier to extinguish it!

Suddenly, the friends found themselves surrounded by large tongues of fire and smoke without finding an escape, and upon feeling a strong gust of very hot wind; Juan de Dios, desperate, looking for a way out of that cloud of heat and smoke, sprinkled water around him, trying to break the circle of fire, which was closing around him. That fire seemed determined to feed on him, amidst the roar of the The fire managed to distinguish Edgar, who, blinded by the smoke, was trying to get out of that trap, and he threw the jet of the hose at him to help him and at the same time indicate his position.

-We'll have to jump Edgar! The fire closes and locks us in.

-But; where? –Edgar asked.

-To where you don't see light! –Juan answers. -The flame-resistant fabric of the overalls will prevent us from burning ourselves if we do it quickly! If we can't run to the exit, then run to the left and I run to the right so if there is only one exit it will be easier for the other.

-Nooo driller!… -Edgar says. -I don't see any light that isn't fire and if we got into this together, together we will get out!

While they were agreeing, the hose stopped spraying water and the friends looked at each other, while a gust of hot air took away their time from thinking.

-RUUUUUNNN!

Edgar shouted, heading behind his friend's back, trying to drag him with him, but due to the humidity, the overalls were slipping like plastic, and Juan de Dios, destabilized by the pull, fell to the ground and rolled, feeling that one of His hands hit something hot and he stood up screaming.

-EDGAARR!

While he looked for it with his eyes in the direction where it had disappeared, he still had the fire ax that he took from the forklift, and with a single blow he cut off a branch a meter long, which he used as a blind man's cane, to make his way between w**d.