Akbar and Two-Tall Tim looked distinctly unhappy about that last, but no one had a better answer. She flew out and, after giving them a visual of the blaze, dropped them about three klicks ahead of the fire where a ridge climbed across the path of the southern head. Akbar had wanted to go for a nearer drop site, but Cal had warned him off. The fire would be moving too fast to create a firebreak any closer to the blaze.
Before she was back aloft, they had the chain saws running. By the time Jeannie and Cal were back with the first load of water, she could already see a line of felled trees along the back of the ridge. She left them to it and returned her attention to the fire itself. Their job was to make a break that the fire couldn’t cross. Her and Bruce’s job was to punch it down hard e
