Redstone Station by Therese Creed

Author:Therese Creed
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: FIC000000, book
ISBN: 9781743434420
Publisher: Allen & Unwin
Published: 2013-04-03T04:00:00+00:00

Sam had known from experience that the fire would be travelling fast, so he hadn’t followed Jeremy and Alice through the corner gate. Instead, heading east, he’d come in at the far end of the paddock and was grading the old road across the centre. He gritted his teeth and peered through the grimy windscreen, trying to ignore the nagging tightness in his chest. Eventually he reached around and opened the door on the machine. The smoke couldn’t be worse than the airlessness of the cab.

He saw Alice and Jeremy reach the newly graded line. Taking the fire bugs, they headed off on foot in opposite directions and set about lighting the grass on the western edge of the break so that a slow line of flame began creeping back, against the wind, towards the rapidly approaching fire front. Sam was gratified to observe how well they worked together.

It wasn’t long before the graded break had been widened with the back-burn. Just as Sam had hoped they would, Alice and Jeremy began to light another strip fifty metres further in towards the approaching fire. These flames, pushed by the wind, raced to meet their slower counterparts near the graded track. The two lines of flame collided and soon extinguished one another.

Sam slowed the grader to a crawl. He was panting slightly, his fist on his chest. By this time the main fire front had arrived. He smiled with satisfaction at the sight of Alice and Jeremy standing shoulder to shoulder in the ash, watching the approach of the galloping wall of flame from the national park. It reached the smoking black corridor they had made and abruptly halted its advance.

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