Chapter Twelve Ward The following day, I leaned back in my chair at the table in the break room and glanced around. This was a busy station. Given that it housed three crews, that was no surprise. Yet, the size of the town belied the busyness of the station. Since it was a central location in Alaska, it served a number of other areas. Nursing my coffee, I pondered how and when to handle the issue of Chad. Rex had been spot on with his assessment. The guy was an asshole, his attitude a problem for the team. We’d responded to a local fire in a nearby town this week. There’d been a large fire at a property with a collection of buildings. The sparks from the initial fire ended up setting two sheds on fire. In short, it was a mess. Chad had been negative the entire time. He grudgingly respon