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Pastimes : Short Stories - 50 words or less
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To: Solon who wrote (1941)8/20/2005 11:58:18 PM
From: ManyMoose  Read Replies (1) of 2633
 
DIABLO

Fifty two days on this mountain looking for fires. Finally I called one in.

Smokejumpers came.

One caught his 'chute on top of a dead snag. It caught wind and filled. The snag broke and he fell.

Now fires just burn. The lookout is blind.

Not when I was there.

firelookout.com
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