Firefighter

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A firefighter is the city's favorite hero. The fires that make him a legend are the ones he lights. The night one burns faster than he planned, the man assigned to investigate the arson is him.

A is first through every door.

The cameras love him.

The chief loves him.

Each rescue makes him bigger, and the bigger he gets the harder it is to wait for the next call.

He learns how small a fire can start and how fast a trained man can end it.

He sets one in an empty unit, then carries a child out before the smoke thickens.

The street cheers.

He tells himself he only burns what he can save.

The department is short on money.

A private crew bids for the contract.

A's saves are the only thing keeping his station open, so the fires keep coming, and he calls that a reason.

B, a rookie who worships him, rides his rig and begins charting where blazes begin: always A's district, always A first on scene.

Then the arson unit hands A the case on his own fires.

He steers it toward C, a man with a record and no alibi.

A blaze jumps a wall A misjudged and traps a family on the third floor.

A reaches the door he once would have run through.

He hesitates.

One of them does not come out, and the helmet camera records the pause.

To stay a hero, A must sign the case shut on C and lose B's chart.

He has the badge to do both.

He does both.

On the news he is still the man who runs toward fire.

In the mirror he is the one who started it.