“When the fires came you had to evacuate yourself; no one would come to get you,” Premee Mohamed writes.
The plane had no pilot. Vaughn, who had wandered into the cockpit to find someone to talk to, found herself more startled than shocked by this—after all, her boss had said about half the flights going up to the fires were self-flown—but there had certainly been a pilot when she’d boarded. He must have disembarked in Cold Lake, where they had stopped so briefly that Vaughn hadn’t even bothered unfastening her seat belt. Either way, the Hercules was now, undeniably, flying itself.
“Mm,” said the airstrip supervisor, whom Vaughn had already clocked as a kind of one-woman unwelcome committee. Her grunt expressed something like. “You got all your gear in there?”She jerked a thumb at the ancient pickup—once white, now matte gray—that Vaughn had painstakingly backed out of its tight squeeze inside the Hercules. The agency decal on the door boasted three parallel scratches as if it had been clawed by an animal rather than bumping into the concrete wall of the work parkade.
is true that most of the local permanent stations aren’t reporting.” No inflection, no value judgment at all, nothing to work with.“The power might be out,” Vaughn had replied, forcing herself to pause, not to sound too eager. “I can try to get them back online. And then we’ll have good regional data … and the last big fires, you know, wesend up a team in the MAML to get data from inside the town. For emergency personnel. You know how it is.
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