The Wildwood Canyon Fire

The wildwood canyon fire started less than a mile north of us in the canyons. We were already getting paid full rate, fire fighting rate. Pay went up two dollars an hour at noon. On the third day, we slumped on the white a curb in a line, sucking down electrolite laced water  the color and temperature of pis. A woman in her seventies or eighties balancing a tray covered with mismatched jelly glasses rattled in brown liquid.