Heartache • Tk Twin Sister (A Fox 911 Lone Star/ Fox 911 Fanfic)

Chapter 23

"You got all my love to spend,
Let's find a place where happiness begins"

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I was standing next to Tk who was standing next the Marjan as the IC stood before all of us talking about to current situation.

"I'm Deputy Chief De Leon of the San Angelo Fire Department, acting incident commander. For those of you just joining the party, welcome."

Tk leans over to whisper to Marj, but his whisper comes out as more of a quiet yell.
"I think that guy is staring at you."

I lean past Tk and Marj to see who he is talking about but Tk elbows me back and shakes his head. "You're making it obvious. Stop." I roll my eyes and lean back and listen back to the Deputy Chief who was introducing my dad.

"I want to introduce my operations section chief, Captain Owen Strand out of Austin." My dad and him switch places and my dad begins his report.

"The thing we were praying wouldn't happen has happened. The wind has shifted. The fire's now on a collision course with the city of San Angelo. There's a possibility of weather coming in, but we can't rely on it, and we won't. We have one last shot to turn the tide. Here. On Copper Ridge. We cut a containment line here, and we can stop this beast in its tracks. I know you're exhausted. A lot of you haven't had more than a couple of hours of sleep in days. But on behalf of the city of San Angelo and their 120,000 souls, we're gonna get you up on that fire line and you are gonna cut like hell." He looks at everyone and then lands his eyes on the 126.

"Good luck. Stay safe."

Tk walks off with Mateo, but the rest of us follow after my dad who was called back to one of the tents. The three men talk for a few minutes before my dad turns around and rubs his forehead in stress.

"What's going on?" I ask Judd who is propped up on one of the poles holding up the tent.

"There's a bunch of kids at a camp trapped up past the fire line."

"Can we get an evac chopper up here?" One of the men points to the map laid out on the table.

Cap shakes his head and brushes his hair with his hand. "It's too dangerous, and these access roads are all aflame. We can't get an engine up there."

Judd leans up straight and butts into the discussion. "Hey. Pardon me, Cap. You could get to it with ATVs easily enough. I used to ride around on ATVs in woods just like these growing up."

My dad and the other 2 people nod their heads at Judd's quick thinking. "Firefighter, you just became a strike team leader." Judd nods his head and looks at me and Marj.

"Hell, I'm in," I reply and look at Marjan.

"Driving through fire instead of digging a ditch? Sign me up."

"I'll join" Paul steps up.

My dad nods his head at all of us and looks down at the map. "All right. Nine-man team. Take a medic. You don't know what you're gonna find up there."

Right when we're about to walk away a voice comes from behind all of us. "I'm a medic. Eddie Diaz with the 118, Los Angeles."  (OMGGGG IM UR BIGGEST FAN)

"You a paramedic?" Marjan questions Eddie.

"Firefighter. But I was a medic in the army, and on more than a few missions that looked a lot like this."

We look back to Cap and he nods his head in confirmation. "What you waiting for, Hollywood? Get your bag. Meet us down by the motor pool. We'll roll out." Judd yells out to him and then walks away.