Chapter 13It is a steady day with plenty of calls to keep them busy, Beto thankful for the slight breeze after a few days of unrelenting heat. They have so far rescued two teenagers trapped in an elevator, assisted with a derailed streetcar, and dealt with a tire fire that Beto is convinced he can still smell a couple of hours after attending. This current call is the biggest so far, to a fire caused by faulty wiring in an office complex. Any hope the crews attending had of containing the fire to the fourth-floor corner where it started are long gone, an evacuation in progress and billowing smoke making it hard to both breathe and see.
“One more,” Gray says, grunting under the weight of the man he is carrying as he hands him off to Beto to take down the stairwell.
“How many more?”
“Four
