Fire at Gray Wolf Lookout This is the second story in my Firehawks Lookouts series. It wasn’t until I’d written this that I realized I was writing a short story series. This was the first time I’d done that, where the stories were connected more to each other than to the novels that inspired them. The Firehawks series is about the heli-aviation wildland firefighters of my Oregon-based Mount Hood Aviation team. That primary series, which will be gaining (has gained) its fifth novel in late 2016, spun off other series. The Firehawks Smokejumpers series was three novels covering the love stories of those heroes willing to jump out of perfectly safe airplanes to parachute into active fire zones. Then in short stories, two series broke off: Fire Lookouts and Hotshot crews. For this story