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Friday, October 19, shortly after 2 p.m.

"Does anyone have any questions or comments?" Cassie asked as she finished presenting the report she had given to Jeff and Brains earlier in the week.

"You haven't really mentioned the Fire Tender and the fire break created in front of the rum plant," Scott commented.

Cassie nodded as she made note of the comment. She needed to create a written form of the session as Alan and Virgil were not in attendance. Though she could use the report for the base, anything extra brought up during this session needed to be added.

"Preventing the fire from reaching the rum plant, which I'm sure everyone was aware of, was an important part to containing the fire. The rum would have acted as a fuel, which is one of the sides of what is known as the fire triangle. The fire triangle is a simple model used to understand the ingredients needed to create most fires. Along with fuel, the other sides include heat and oxygen. When trying to put out a blaze the idea is that by taking away any of these sides you break the triangle and therefore are able to control and ultimately extinguish the fire. I'll go into more detail about the fire triangle, as well as two other models based on it, the fire tetrahedron and the fire square on Monday. Are there any other questions?"

Cassie scanned the training room, her gaze meeting each of her teammates. Other than a few of them shaking their head, no one said anything.

"Then we're done for today. On Monday, I'm going to cover information on wild fires in general and teach you all how firefighters would go about fighting them. You'll get a chance to put what you learn on Monday into practice on Tuesday in the live fire training scenario we're going to stage."

"Where's this training fire going to take place?" Gordon asked.

"On one of the smaller islands in the area," Cassie replied. She and Brains had talked about sites and had decided it would be safer to not do it Tracy Island. "I can't give you more detailed information than that at this time because Brains and I are going out to pick the exact site tomorrow. Anything else?" she asked again, pausing briefly. "Okay, then we're through here. Thanks for coming everyone."

As the others got up from their seats, Cassie started to shut down her lap top.

"I thought you said you were nervous about this training session," Luke commented as he joined her at the table.

"I was," Cassie told him as their teammates started walking by them on the way out of the room.

"Well, I don't think anyone noticed," Luke commented.

Xxxx

As she walked out of the room, Callie caught part of Luke and Cassie's conversation. She sure didn't seem nervous to me, she thought.

John was walking beside her. Glancing over at him, Callie decided to strike up a conversation with him.

"Wow, there's more to fighting wildfires than I thought. I hadn't heard about the 'fire triangle' until Cassie mentioned it," she commented. "I'm curious to find out exactly what the fire tetrahedron and fire square are too."

John nodded. "I've heard of the fire triangle before but not the other two," he commented.

"I know," said Brandon, speaking up from behind the two of them. "Living in Southern California, I should probably know more about wildfires than I do, but some people get too complacent, thinking it won't happen to them."

"Wildfires can happen anywhere at any time," Callie commented. "I remember a bad one when I was a teenager. It took place about 30 miles north of Opp, and most of the people there didn't think anything of it ... until they had to evacuate with almost nothing but the clothes they wore."

"Bet that got their attention," Brandon said seriously.

With a nod, she said, "Oh, did it ever. It served as a wake-up call to everyone in the area, including my family. We knew what we had to do to prevent our home from ever burning down in a wildfire."

"Things like that do have a way of opening your eyes to things," John commented.

The three of them had reached the point where they needed to head in different directions. Callie and Brandon said good-by to John. While John continued to the Villa, Callie and Brandon headed for their respective apartments, still talking.

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