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At her suggestion, they dropped Jeremy and Jon near the wings to inspect them.
Brett landed the rest of the team—including Jeff, with more admonishments to behave—at the top of the mountain before gathering up a load of firefighters to deliver back to the bottom of the mountain now that the fire was beaten.
The char was thick on the air. Every step puffed up a small cloud of ash from the burned vegetation. For a moment, the morning breeze would swirl it aside in a brush of fresh mountain air—and then it would drive a cloud of ash up the hill.
Jeremy handed around paper masks.
Brett had been accurate when he’d told Miranda that there wasn’t much to see. Actually, the problem was that there was so much to see and most of it was very small—and scattered widely. Any attempt to map the d
