“Nate could recall vivid details of the moments the Columbus firemen had pulled him from his burning house. One of them had put his oxygen mask over his mouth and nose that day until the emergency squad arrived. He tried to shut out those haunting memories, but concentrating on the here and now was terrible, too. With whispered prayers, the Millers and Sarah knelt around them in a little circle, as if to protect Noah when that wasn’t possible anymore. They could see he was suffering, gasping for... breath, even with the flow of oxygen. He moaned but did not move. Nate knew that third-degree burns over fifty percent of the body would be fatal. Noah’s legs were definitely third-degree with peeling flesh, but his torso seemed second degree with blisters. The smell, not only of smoke, but of burned flesh was stomach-churning. Nate sent Sarah over to the sheriff, who was helping the firefighters, to suggest he put up more orange cones to stop traffic both ways on the road. “Tell him to signal the medical helicopter to land there, instead of near the barn.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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