Tom felt the crispy critters remark a little out of place and said so. “Those two men are two of ours, from my unit, Wayne. Maybe they deserved a little better than ‘crispy critters.’ They worked a stakeout tonight and bought it for their trouble. Thanks for waiting on our boys to arrive before extracting them. It will be a while before the bomb guys finish up if your men do not mind waiting. That okay with you?”
“Sure. We planned on it. We ordered an ambulance to come in about an hour, kind of figured it would take at least that long to get them out and on their way to the Forensic Center in Phoenix.” Tom nodded and went off to help the bomb unit.
Wilfred was in his home in Reveille CC for all of this. Since his was a two-story home overlooking the street on which the fire burned, he wa
