The Boy Scout Fire Fighters

A black ring of fire is spreading over Bald Mountain—and the farmer below it only shrugs. Jack Danby can see the dry stubble, haystacks, and empty brooks that could turn a forest blaze into a disaster.

On a Saturday afternoon, the Thirty-ninth Troop is practicing signals at its camp when Scout-Master Durland sends Jack and Pete Stubbs to investigate. The drought has drained the brooks, the wind is blowing toward the farms, and the men in the fields refuse to take the danger seriously. Jack must report what he sees before the flames reach the tinder-dry fields, but smoke is closing in and the Scouts may be the only ones ready to act. And behind Jack’s familiar name lies another mystery: who knows the truth of his past—and what will the Scouts find when they face the fire?

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