Call Out at the Wharf

Today's call out to the wharf was the third warehouse fire in almost as many weeks. Ivana was sure that it was kids practicing fire magic, but could not prove it. Or not until they had footage of the events, and so far none of the semi-abandoned buildings had security footage. And thus, her fire reports contained only the basic detail and it frustrated the heck out of her.

Pulling into the lot with her men and the fire truck blaring its sirens, Ivana flinched and raised her arm instinctively as the roof suddenly exploded off the building, rocking the ground around it as it blew debris into the air. The firey blast could be felt a good hundred meters away.

"Holy freakin' mother of dragons," she swore loudly as she quickly jumped down off the trunk and ran towards the building already geared up and ready to go.

Ivana hoped to hell that it had not been kids fooling around, a blast like that, well, it could only be something bad. Really bad. It felt like a gas explosion and those were often terrible things to put out. Especially if there was a source feeding it somewhere.


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Ivana was already making her way, quickly but with extreme practiced caution, into the burning building, checking along the way with a portable gas monitor for the presence of gas in the air or leaking from somewhere nearby. She was still wary that the explosion hadn't been magical and there was an unknown source that could go off at any moment.

"Whoa, where are you going?" one of the firefighters said as they tried to grab the arm of the girl who had just arrived on the scene. "You can't go in there. It's way too dangerous," he told her even as she was transforming. "You need to get back behind the line with the others where it's safe."

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"No, no, no, don't. Don't go. Stay back... Dammit..." Itxi, the firefighter who had tried to stop Bastet, called out after her in frustration. Watching the girl, who had transformed into some sort of lizard, take off towards the building, made him frown and swear again. Ivana was gonna be pissed, really pissed to know that a civilian had made it past the safe line.

"Chief..." Itxi called as he turned on the radio in his helmet, "You got a GS coming in," he told her, waiting for Ivana to answer back.

"What the...?" Ivana said as she stopped moving for a second, the fire billowing around her, and waved to Carl who had followed in after her. "What do you mean? You know civilians can't break the safe line," she groaned, clearly peeved now. That is all she needed. To worry about a rash civilian wanting to help out.

"I know, mum, but she took off before I could stop her. She's coming in a three o'clock," Itxi informed Ivana as he moved the hose and started spraying water near the top roof part of the building.

'There she is,' Ivana said to Carl, using the microphone in her fireman's helmet when she spotted the entity coming towards her. She instinctively knew it had to be the Good Samaritan because Ivana had just checked out that part of the building and it had been clear.

"You over there!" Ivana called out in a very authoritative tone as she removed her oxygen mask for a moment, "You can't be in here."

"It's way too dangerous," she continued while she gestured Carl over, "Lieutenant Mason here will escort you out," she told Bastet just as another smaller blast went off and rocked the warehouse.

"Get her out of here, Carl. NOW!" Ivana ordered as two more firefighters came running forward, ready to do battle with the inferno at hand.

Unfortunately, Ivana was highly skeptical about Bastet's ability mainly because none of the buildings were even registered to contain within their premises, pesticides. In fact, all but a few pesticides were banned on the island due to the huge environmental impact, not only on the land and the beings that lived off of it but on the inhabitants too.

"Carl," Ivana said as she looked at her lieutenant questioningly, needing a second opinion since they were wasting time, precious time in her opinion, on someone that should not even be in the burning building in the first place.

But before Ivana could say anything, another explosion at the opposite end rocked the building, "Dammit all," Ivana shouted, her attention on the fire and not on Bastet anymore, as she waved her men through. "Careful, use extreme caution," she called out as she looked at Carl and then at Bastet and shook her head.

"I don't have time to argue," Ivana shouted, "You need to get to safety," she yelled as she took off leaving the girl behind. "Carl!!" Ivana shouted, "Let's go!"



(Sorry, Ivana, in good conscience and because she could lose her job, she can't let Bastet go into the fire with her that said, feel free to act however you want. : ) )