/ztg/ - Incident reporting in Oak Creek Gulch

/ZTG/ - Zootopia General: Donut Edition
https://desuarchive.org/trash/thread/70379606/#70441140
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BOO, /ztg/!

Falke here with a little comfy something for Harvest. Hope you're all enjoying the cold(er) weather.

>"If it was smoke, wouldn't we have heard about it by now?" Riles asked.

>"Maybe it wasn't bad enough," Beck said. Experts they might not have been, but farmers were self-sufficient folk, and certainly capable enough of stamping out a small burn. Maybe that made them paranoid to watch out for more signs of burning, even deeper in the forest.

>She vaulted over the low split-rail fence that marked the edge of Metcalf's property and paused to check north and get her bearings. Oak Creek Gulch was a large foothills canyon, stretching away above them into the dark where the nearest edge of the Flint Hills proper loomed. Above the namesake waterway it was steep, wooded country, unlike the fields they were leaving, but that didn't stop mammals from building new homesteads on its picturesque slopes.

>It combined many of the worst risks of both structure and wildland fires. There were decks on stilts and pilings, held up level to give large mammals great views through the trees that crowded close and hid everyone's views of their neighbors.

>And sure, the excesses reflected in everyone's insurance rates, but that was never much comfort for the crews that would be trying to control a fire if it ever swept through here. There was little they could do to defend buildings that were so closely woven into the forest.

>ZFD settled for as much prevention as it could spare, with shifts like these. Beck would be looking for signs of anything that had recently burned, for trash and improper disposal, and for deadfall or thick growth that could feed a fire to uncontrollable strengths.

>And smoke. If the farmers were to be believed, there might be something up here already burning.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/60216172/chapters/153659863