Wheel of Fire

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With grateful thanks to Fire Officer Dave West and his colleagues at Wellington Fire Station; Wellington-based PC Hayden Smith of the Avon and Somerset Constabulary; Police Sergeant Andrew Pugh of the Brentford Safer Neighbourhood Team; Detective Constable Shane O’Neill of the Metropolitan Police Force; and Joe Coggins of the Canal and River Trust.

The storm was over. The rain had stopped. The flames that engulfed the big old house raged unhindered. Later, some claimed that the glow in the sky could be seen as far away as Taunton or Tiverton, each fourteen or fifteen miles from Blackdown Manor as the crow flies.

Tom Withey was a trainee fire officer. He’d celebrated his twentieth birthday only a week earlier. He had never seen anything like it before, and he hoped he never would again.

There were people inside that house. Either dead or dying. Nobody was likely to get out alive, that was for sure.

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