Spot Weather Forecast by Kevin Goodan

Author:Kevin Goodan
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Alice James Books
Published: 2021-10-15T00:00:00+00:00

Jet boats ferry us up the Salmon River as far as they can and

we clamber off, portion out gear to hike the fourteen miles

to the ignition site of a rolling twenty-thousand-acre fire. We

arrive sweating in the dark and sleep where we can in the

dirt by the river. When we wake, we see poison ivy. Sixty

men, three shot crews look at each other, wondering what will

come of it, and when. By the second day digging hotline, our

arms begin to boil and blister and the poison ivy is grow-

ing everywhere, on the ground, around trees, in the smoke.

Our Nomex is saturated with the oils. Sweat smears the oils

around. Blisters on the face, blisters in the nose. Someone

goes blind in the smoke, and we breathe it in. Lips blister,

tongues blister, some can’t swallow from blisters in the throat.

On the fourth day, we are digging line and sloughing our

skin. Everyone tries their hardest not to take a dump because

assholes are blistered, the weepy pouches breaking and break-

ing. The foremen call in a supply manifest and on that list

is Clorox. When it arrives, we start pouring bleach over the

hanging skin of our arms. One guy is so crazed from the itch

he tries to gargle bleach before someone does the Heimlich on

him mid-scream. And still, we hike and dig from before first

light until after dark.

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