Dead Air (Book One of The Dead Series) by Schafer Jon

Author:Schafer, Jon [Schafer, Jon]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi, azw3
Publisher: Self
Published: 2012-12-24T13:00:00+00:00

Clearwater, Florida:

Heather Johansen ignored the smell of blood coming from the back seat of her patrol car as she entered the parking lot of Clearwater High School. She had just completed her fifth run to the hospital, and now she was back to ferry more wounded from the supposed safe zone. It was the city’s first major disaster area from the zombie apocalypse.

Because of a shortage of manpower, the refugee center had been set up on the high school's football field right across from the quarantine area. This way, the National Guard wouldn’t have to split their forces to cover two separate areas. Initially, the plan to combine the facilities had run like a well-oiled machine, and having been informed of the location of this clear zone on television and radio, people had been flooding in all day. The evacuees were first examined by a doctor to see if they were at risk of exposure to the HWNW virus, and if negative, were fed and assigned a cot in one of the large tents erected for this purpose on the home side of the football field. If positive, they were still fed but were assigned a cot in one of the large tents on the visitors' side of the field. Here, they were kept under observation. The only thing separating the two areas was a grass strip manned by a handful of National Guard troops.

Those on the visitors’ side had to be quarantined for a minimum of twenty-four hours. As most of them were slight risks, usually having scratches or sores that could have been caused by any number of things and those who had an elevated temperature, it was now falsely believed a slight fever was a symptom of exposure, the confinement was brief.

The high-risk cases were segregated in the school’s gymnasium and kept under close scrutiny by taser wielding Clearwater Police officers. The high-risks were people showing evidence of human bites or infected scratches. Since nine o'clock that morning when the quarantine zone opened, twenty-two people had turned and been put down by the police officers in the gym.

As darkness fell, a large portion of the troops stationed at the high school went out to patrol the streets for curfew violators and looters, leaving only a skeleton crew to patrol the safe zone. Up until then, a walkthrough of the quarantine tents had been performed every fifteen minutes. With the reduction in forces, that now changed to every hour.

A private named Harry Bronson had just come on duty and entered tent one to perform his rounds when he was attacked by three of the low-risk cases who had all died and came back within a few minutes of each other.

Tent one was dimly lit and the least populated of the four quarantine areas, so initially the attack went unnoticed. This was aided by the fact that many of those sent to the QZ had been given tranquilizers by the medical staff to keep them from acting out. Most were in a deep sleep.

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