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CALIFORNIA: Tempests of Flame...
...gives him a lift. Sitting on the side of the road when they arrive is Gary Pattengill, in some sort of shock. BOOOM! The fire from the hills is devouring the trailer homes one by one, and each time it hits a propane-fuel tank, a tremendous explosion sends flame and shrapnel into the air. "That's incredible," says Pattengill, 53, a recently laid-off sales manager, raising an eyebrow. He too was stopped at the roadblock, and stayed, mesmerized by the destruction. BOOOM! Finally, a piece of shrapnel lands a few yards from Pattengill. "I think it's time...
...state is unlucky, a spark, man-made or natural, will strike the canyon vegetation, thick and green in the damp months but now dried to tinder. The spiky brown chaparral brush will ignite like old Christmas trees, and a canyon will become a fire corridor through which flames roar faster than a man can run, burning at temperatures high enough to melt metal, billowing to start yet more fires $ and driving walls of flame to the ocean's lip. And if California is especially unlucky, this will occur in more than one canyon at once...
Dogged by respiratory problems, Davis' once assertive, quicksilver trumpet tone flickers and flares like an oxygen-starved flame. On Miles Ahead he sits out long passages, but with trumpeter Wallace Roney backing him up, Davis' pride and defiance burn through as he suddenly leaps into the final chorus, bobbing atop the careening rhythm with a tone that begins as a crackle and winds up pure and delicate as crystal. On the slow-building Solea, he struggles to find himself, then, catching his wind, lets fly a cascade of notes that arc and shimmer with the same brassy authority he wielded...
Another year of Crimson sports is about to start. The glowing ember that has quietly burned for three months will burst into flame anytime now, and the games will begin again...