Jumping into my uniform to tidy up so that I look fresh and ready to start my shift. The drive to work is just ten minutes today without any traffic.
The guys are finishing up their breakfast. Luke is there eating. I pour myself a cup of coffee and sit by him. He’s never very talkative while he is eating, so I take a section of the newspaper and start reading.
Just as Luke finishes his breakfast, puts his plate in the sink and comes to sit down next to me so that we can talk- the fire bell rings. We have a fire. I put down the paper and he gives me a shrug.
“Here we go. Hope it isn’t a big one.”
“Here’s hoping.”
The chief comes out as we are boarding the fire engine.
“Be careful. An arsonist started this fire. Watch out for booby traps.”
Everybody nods and some promise the chief they will be careful. When we get there, everyone gets out of the fire engine and as we study the fire, we all plan for how we are going to attack this thing. Luke and I go into the building and start fighting the fire.
It’s so extremely hot, but he and I are used to the incredible heat. We work side by side and start tearing down anything that will slow the fire down. As we are working, I see something in the corner of the room.
“Over here!” I shout to Luke.
He follows me to the corner. When we get close, we see that it is a bag with the initials JM.
“Looks like we have some evidence here,” Luke shouts back to me.
Finally, after a couple of hours, we finish. We go back to the station. We are all exhausted, but the captain has a surprise for us: twenty boxes of pizza with assorted toppings.
We all rush to take a shower and change. As we are eating the captain comes out to talk to us.
“Good work guys on picking up that evidence,” Captain says.
“Did you get any fingerprints,” I ask.
“Unfortunately, no. But it’s still a good find.”
“Thanks Cap,” I say.
We finish our pizza and go upstairs to watch the afternoon news on our big screen TV in the living quarters.
I’m exhausted so I’ll probably fall asleep in my chair like I usually do. I close my eyes and see Emma- I enjoy thinking about her as I drift off to sleep.