New team

7.Action

"There's a fire at the west edge of forest. And there's a person trapped on the cliff puddle near the lighthouse" Eddie said through the speaker and quickly followed in the team's footsteps who all ran down the stairs to the garage. 

"We have two emergencies, close enough to each other" Liam started when the rest gathered around him in a circle at the hall. "Chris, you, Julia and Tony are going to take Jupiter and take care of that fire. I and Eddie are going to take Venus 2 and go to the cliffs" he ordered, reaching for his uniform jacket to put it on. "We keep in contact through the radios". 

"Roger that, Liam" they briefly saluted before they quickly jumped in their uniforms as well and got inside the vehicles. 

Chris started the engine first and Jupiter rolled out of the garage before Liam could even count to three. But he didn't wait too long, Venus quickly caught up with Jupiter on the road leading to their location. 

"Old vehicles, but still in the good shape" Tony admired when Chris smoothly turned left to the lighthouse when Venus' lights disappeared in the distance. 

Jupiter slowly covered the distance, continously stubborn ascending the hill beneath the lighthouse walls. The wheels slipped on the wet ground, but the car stopped safely far from the edge of the cliff near the lighthouse. The sight they found in front of the lighthouse door surprised the three young firefighters. And when they got out and walked behind the vehicle to the source of the fire, they felt like laughing out loud. 

"What is that?" Chris asked confused when he regained control over his colleagues.

Orange fire flames, the size of a medium-sized bonfire, danced over the edges of three large wooden furniture boxes, as the stickers said. As Chris, Julia, and Tony tried to understand what was going on, they were approached by a tall, red-haired boy with gray glasses on a slightly freckled nose. He smiled friendly - he looked like he could be their age. 

"What has happened here?" Chris asked formelly as he was learned at the academy, but the boy just looked at him as confused. 

"It wasn't my fault" he just shrugged his shoulders innocently. "I was just walking around when I saw flames" he explained quickly. 

"It seems for me like someone set it up to play a joke on us" Julia whispered to Chris behind her hand, but not quiet enough not to let the man hear her. 

"As I said it wasn't my fault. I grow up from it long time ago" the man objected a little offendly. 

They quickly put the fire out, but to be on the safe side they took some photo of the burned boxes, before they packed the hose and extinguisher to Jupiter. 

Meanwhile the second team were witnesses of much more realistic looking scene they approached in Venus. The cliff top they arrived at looked untouched by anything that could come to young unexperienced brains when they heard that call. As Liam turned off the engine and was about to get out of the Venus, a girl maybe a year or two younger than him ran up to Eddie, who was one step ahead of him. Her hair, in the color of the summer sun, bounced off her shoulders in time with her steps. But what surprised the young firefighter the most was the stranger's eyes. Their blue sparkled in the sunlight, reflecting the green of the grass. It was something familiar, something he saw before...

"My brother is down there. His leg got stuck and he can't climb up" she explained, when they followed her to the edge to look down on the same like looking boy at the same age. 

"What's your name?" Liam shouted to the boy. 

"James" he shouted back. 

"Stay calm, we're coming for you" Liam assured as he showed Eddie the signal to move Venus as close as it was possible. The wrench would be safer. 

He secured the harness and his rope to Venus' wrench and began his slow journey, trying to find steady ground for his feet on cliff wall, until he smoothly jumped on the puddle. He quickly put the harness on James and let him go up first, securing his steps from behind. 

"What were you doing down there?" Liam asked when he ended rolling up the wrench from behind Venus' wheel. 

"I slipped on the mud, thanks for saving" he gratefully thanked, smiling friendly when he turned to his sister. 

Eddie and Liam watched for a moment as the two of them waved for a goodbye and slowly walked away. 

"There is no mud anywhere" Eddie noticed confused, something today seemed strange for him and he didn't hide his will to inform others at every possibility. 

"Doesn't she look familiar?" Liam asked. 

"Are you for real? We work here, Liam" Eddie pointed not too politely, and suppostedly he wanted to add something else when they heard a loud crack. 

When they picked up their heads again, they were left with their jaw wide open. They saw how a part of a cliff edge, Liam and James were a few minutes ago climbing on, broke in two and was about to fall down into the sea. The only problem was that Sarah was still standing there while her brother was trying to reach for her hand from a safe distance. Liam kneelt a little on his knees, preparing to jump, but someone was quicker than him. 

In a short moment they saw dark uniform of firefighter who pushed Sarah away to a steady ground when the cliff edge finally gave in. 

Suddenly all went quiet, not a scream or anything like that, but when the dust fall down they saw two shoulders holding with a steady grip to the edge. 

When he jumped, he couldn't say if it was his instinct that tell him to do so, or all the stories and excuses he had heard through all his years, that made him jump. But the pain in his shoulder was unbearable. So he gladly accepted Sarah's help when she helped him crawl onto the ground again. 

"Station Officer Jones?" Liam and Eddie asked, speechless totally taken by surprise, still realizing what had just happened.