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The Importance of Professional Tree Surgery Services in Lyons

Trees are a vital part of any landscape. They add beauty, provide shade, support local wildlife, and even increase property value. However, maintaining the health and appearance of trees requires more than just occasional watering and pruning. In areas like Lyons, where changing weather conditions and urban development can stress trees, professional care is essential. That’s where Tree Surgery…

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Kent & Medway Medical School, Canterbury

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Kent & Medway Medical School in Canterbury

6 Jan 2021

Kent & Medway Medical School

Architects: Hazle McCormack Young LLP

Location: Canterbury, Kent, South East England

Three storey University building to accommodate a new Medway Medical School in Kent, UK. The building provides teaching facilities and staff accommodation for 300 students.

What was the brief? The new Kent & Medway Medical School (KMMS) is a partnership between the University of Kent and Canterbury Christ Church University. It will be Kent’s first medical school, bringing together the existing centres of excellence in health and medical education provided by the two universities as well as local healthcare organisations, thereby offering a new model of patient-focused medical education. The Medical School will also be an essential part of the solution to recruiting and retaining medical professionals in the region.

Having received funding in the summer of 2018 the University of Kent had to provide a new building on its Canterbury Campus to deliver courses from September 2020. The Pears Building as it has been named accommodates a 150-seat lecture theatre, specialist seminar spaces, simulated GP surgery suite and staff accommodation. Specialist practical teaching facilities are accommodated at the Canterbury Christ Church University campus in their new Science & Engineering Building.

Key requirements of the brief are that the building should support future adaptation and change, that (to cater for the particular needs of visitors with disabilities) it be ‘super accessible’ and that it should achieve a BREEAME ‘Excellent’ rating.

What building methods were used? The building is constructed with a Hybrid of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panel floors/roof/staircase walls and a steel frame with lightweight steel framing infill. CLT was also used to construct the staircases which resolved access to each floor and the roof for the contractor during construction.

This methodology enabled the building to be made watertight early on in construction. Brickwork consists of brick slips bonded to insulation panels which does not require teams of skilled bricklayers as the traditional method would require and the system improves airtightness and thermal performance.

What are the sustainability features? Low energy consumption is integral to the design of the building through natural ventilation, PV panels, good daylighting and a highly insulated airtight external envelope. The building is designed to achieve a BREEAM ‘Excellent’ rating.

The use of off-site manufacture using cross laminated timber panels for floors, stair core walls and roof reduced the amount of concrete required in the building and its carbon footprint.

Roof mounted windcatchers provide ventilation to the first floor seminar rooms (via vertical ducting through the second floor) as well as the second floor meeting rooms and break out space. Night time cooling is supported through the provision of external louvres in the ground floor administration and meeting rooms and the first-floor seminar rooms, break out, group room and resources rooms.

How is the project unique? The Kent & Medway Medical School will play an essential part in the recruitment and retention of medical professionals in the region, helping to address the national and local shortage of medical staff. The current Pandemic has highlighted the need for such a facility and its inherent flexibility will enable the University to meet the current and future demands of the healthcare profession.

What were the key challenges? Programme The University had to deliver the building within 22 months from appointment of HMY. This required a co-ordinated design team effort and from HMY’s appointment in October 2018 we had submitted a full planning application in early 2019.

New Model of Education The building design had to develop alongside the client team establishing the course curriculum. This required a proactive approach to changes during the project and informed the choice of construction.

Covid Pandemic The team had to deal with the nationwide lockdown in March 2020 but the course starting date remained unchanged. The use of off-site construction enabled the building to be weathertight early. There were some delays in obtaining materials for example external cladding but the watertight shell enabled the interiors to be pushed forward. The project was completed on time and defect free.

Restricted site The proposed site for the KMMS Building is at the heart of the campus and on a constrained site. In addition, there were a number of underground services and features that had to be relocated ahead of construction starting on the building.

What were the solutions? A limitation on height to three stories combined with the close proximity of the adjoining single storey workshops and an objective to minimise the loss of existing trees constrained the new building to a simple orthogonal footprint.

The main entrance has been located on the north/east corner of the building adjacent to the existing pedestrian footpaths. The existing slope across the site from east to west has been utilised to provide a lower ground floor level to the lecture theatre to accommodate the height required for the raked seating.

The disposition of the required accommodation within the three-storey volume informs the façade design, each element expressive of the different uses within. The ground floor takes the form of a massive brick clad plinth from which the two stair cores extend to roof level. In contrast the upper floors of accommodation are expressed as a contrasting volume. The articulation of the massing is further informed by the idea of a ‘skin’ wrapping the building’s inner workings.

The University appointed Willmott Dixon Construction through the SCAPE Procurement Framework to deliver the building and HMY worked closely with their team learning the lessons from previous projects with the University. This enabled a rapid start on site for enabling works and for the off-site procurement and manufacture of the structure using a hybrid of Cross Laminated Timber (CLT) panels and a steel frame with lightweight steel frame infill. The CLT provides an exposed timber soffit within rooms which contrasts with the suspended acoustic rafts, lighting and encased steel frame. All services are concealed within a raised access floor and rooms are created with dry lining partitioning. This solution creates spaces that could be adapted during construction to meet the evolving brief and in the future.

Kent & Medway Medical School in Canterbury, England – Building Information

Architect and Principal Designer: Hazle McCormack Young LLP

Structural & Civil Engineer: Lyons O’Neill Mechancial & Electrical Consultants: Westec Engineering Ltd Principal Contractor: Willmott Dixon Construction Ltd

Project size: 2365 sqm Site size: 2135 sqm Project Budget: $10000000 Completion date: 2020 Building levels: 3

Key products used: B&K Structures – cross laminated timber floors, roof and walls IKO plc – roofing system Velux – rooflights Bilco – roof access hatches Kingspan Insulation – external walls Metsec SFS infill panels – external walls Gebrick Insulating Brick System – brick cladding Eternit Equitone Natura – rainscreen cladding IKO plc – roof system British Gypsum – dry lining & suspended ceilings Rockfon – demountable suspended ceilings Kawneer – windows, doors & curtain qalling John Watson Joinery Ltd – internal doors Planet Partitioning glazed screens Ezyglide sliding folding partitions Kingspan – raised access floors Cemex – screeded floors Milliken – carpet tiles Interface – modular vinyl sheet flooring and carpet tiles Tarkett – vinyl flooring Howdens Joinery – kitchens Venesta IPS duct panels Sanitaryware Armitage Shanks/Ideal Standard Gartec Lifts Heatrae Sadia – electric water heaters Honeywell – BMS Johnson Controls – access control MK Electric – electrical accessories Marley Plumbing & Drainage Solutions – above and below ground drainage Mitsubishi Electric Europe – air conditioning NuAire Ltd – extract fans Schneider Electric Ltd – distribution boards Solar UK – PV system Static Systems – fire alarm Thorlux – luminaires

Photography: Gordon Young

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When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Monday, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote property in rural Washington state, where wildfires turned pastures of 4-foot-high sage into dust.Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1-year-old son, Uriel, were visiting their land in Okanogan County when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Relatives couldn’t reach the couple, or emergency services, because power lines were down.On Tuesday, Mabry discovered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quarter of a mile from the land. The vehicle had blown through a barbed wire fence. Its windshield had melted, and the steering wheel and dashboard were obliterated, he recalled.“When I first saw the truck, I didn’t want to search,” Mabry told The Daily Beast. “I was so convinced I was coming across remains. Because I didn’t see any chance of them making it.”Yet the Hylands made a harrowing escape, relatives said, abandoning their small pickup truck and heading to the Columbia River, where rescuers miraculously found them Wednesday morning. Their little boy did not survive.Grandmother, 12-Year-Old Grandson, Four More Die as Wildfire Smoke Enshrouds Oregon and California in DarknessNow Jake, 31, and Jamie, 26, are hospitalized in critical condition, their bodies covered in burns. Jamie, who is pregnant, has burns on 50 percent of her body, mostly on her arms, hands and face, Mabry told The Daily Beast.“It’s a miracle with a sad ending,” he said. “They survived, but lost a child.” He added, “They loved their son. He was their ray of hope.”A GoFundMe page—which shows a photo of the couple and their baby smiling on their remote property just a few months ago—has raised more than $117,000 for the family. Jake, his family said, is expected to have at least four more surgeries and will be in the intensive care unit for at least two weeks.The Cold Springs wildfire is just one of a slew of blazes to decimate swaths of the Pacific Northwest and California in recent days, with fires killing at least a dozen people in that state alone, according to the LA Times. In Lyons, Oregon, 12-year-old Wyatt Tofte died beside his dog. His grandmother, Peggy Mosso, was also killed in a blaze. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise in California, Oregon, and Washington, where thousands of residents have faced evacuation orders. In California, the ferocious August Complex fire—which had burned more than 471,000 acres and was only 24 percent contained as of Thursday afternoon—was the largest blaze in state history.Also on Thursday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported 102 fires had burned through 4.3 million acres throughout the country, mostly in the West. The Cold Springs fire, which burned 172,000 acres, was 10 percent contained.Mabry said Jake’s property was deeply isolated—no cell service, electricity, or running water. The closest town is a 45-minute drive. Jake and Jamie stopped at the property to drop some supplies at their Quonset hut on their way home from a wedding in Spokane, Mabry explained, noting that the blaze started around 9:45 p.m. local time Sunday, and reached the property hours later. “People have been making rude comments, about how dumb they are that they didn’t get the evacuation notice,” Mabry’s wife, Tammie, told The Daily Beast. “It is off grid. I don’t think people understand that.”Mabry said the Hylands ditched the truck, which hit some rocks, and fled in the darkness early Monday morning, carrying their son and a jug of water.Authorities scheduled a search for Wednesday at 10 a.m., but Mabry said the couple was found earlier thanks to a family member’s Facebook post on a local fire watch page. A boat from the Colville Tribe’s fish and wildlife agency discovered the couple.According to local news channel KREM, detectives with the sheriff’s office and tribal police are investigating the child’s death as a homicide since the fire could have been “human-caused.”Two hundred miles away, the wildfires came for virtually an entire town.Larry Frick, 53, told The Daily Beast he was visiting his son in Pullman—about 47 miles south—when heavy winds set his community of Malden ablaze on Monday.He and his wife, Chandelle, rushed home to save their dogs and cats, one of which has gone missing. They also believed Chandelle’s mother was home at the time; luckily, she’d left before the fires consumed their neighborhood, ultimately destroying roughly three quarters of the homes in the town.They passed through smoke, fallen trees, and the torched houses of their neighbors. When they got home, their deck and shed were on fire, and they worked for hours to douse the flames with a garden hose and sprinkler. “The whole time, it literally felt like a war zone. Explosions were going off all through town, ammunition, propane tanks, fires blowing up,” Frick said. “A couple made the ground shake.”“We’re still in shock,” Frick added. “I feel a sense of guilt. We have everything and we really don’t need anything but our power back on, and everyone around us has lost everything. They just have the shirts on their backs.”As for the Hylands, relatives said they were shocked and thankful Jamie and Jake were discovered alive. “When you look at the scene, we were like… we don’t know how they could have survived. The truck is like something you couldn’t believe,” Tammie Mabry said. Jim Mabry said he’s gone through a rollercoaster of emotions since his cousin vanished. First he was told the Hyland family survived. Then he learned Uriel had died. The child had joined his parents on a visit to the property last spring during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when they took a walk to the river where they were later rescued.One recent photo shows little Uriel in a carrier on his mother's back as they roamed the land.“Being a mom was her dream,” Tammie said of Jamie Hyland. “She was made to be a mom.” —with additional reporting from Tracy ConnorRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Monday, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote property in rural Washington state, where wildfires turned pastures of 4-foot-high sage into dust.Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1-year-old son, Uriel, were visiting their land in Okanogan County when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Relatives couldn’t reach the couple, or emergency services, because power lines were down.On Tuesday, Mabry discovered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quarter of a mile from the land. The vehicle had blown through a barbed wire fence. Its windshield had melted, and the steering wheel and dashboard were obliterated, he recalled.“When I first saw the truck, I didn’t want to search,” Mabry told The Daily Beast. “I was so convinced I was coming across remains. Because I didn’t see any chance of them making it.”Yet the Hylands made a harrowing escape, relatives said, abandoning their small pickup truck and heading to the Columbia River, where rescuers miraculously found them Wednesday morning. Their little boy did not survive.Grandmother, 12-Year-Old Grandson, Four More Die as Wildfire Smoke Enshrouds Oregon and California in DarknessNow Jake, 31, and Jamie, 26, are hospitalized in critical condition, their bodies covered in burns. Jamie, who is pregnant, has burns on 50 percent of her body, mostly on her arms, hands and face, Mabry told The Daily Beast.“It’s a miracle with a sad ending,” he said. “They survived, but lost a child.” He added, “They loved their son. He was their ray of hope.”A GoFundMe page—which shows a photo of the couple and their baby smiling on their remote property just a few months ago—has raised more than $117,000 for the family. Jake, his family said, is expected to have at least four more surgeries and will be in the intensive care unit for at least two weeks.The Cold Springs wildfire is just one of a slew of blazes to decimate swaths of the Pacific Northwest and California in recent days, with fires killing at least a dozen people in that state alone, according to the LA Times. In Lyons, Oregon, 12-year-old Wyatt Tofte died beside his dog. His grandmother, Peggy Mosso, was also killed in a blaze. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise in California, Oregon, and Washington, where thousands of residents have faced evacuation orders. In California, the ferocious August Complex fire—which had burned more than 471,000 acres and was only 24 percent contained as of Thursday afternoon—was the largest blaze in state history.Also on Thursday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported 102 fires had burned through 4.3 million acres throughout the country, mostly in the West. The Cold Springs fire, which burned 172,000 acres, was 10 percent contained.Mabry said Jake’s property was deeply isolated—no cell service, electricity, or running water. The closest town is a 45-minute drive. Jake and Jamie stopped at the property to drop some supplies at their Quonset hut on their way home from a wedding in Spokane, Mabry explained, noting that the blaze started around 9:45 p.m. local time Sunday, and reached the property hours later. “People have been making rude comments, about how dumb they are that they didn’t get the evacuation notice,” Mabry’s wife, Tammie, told The Daily Beast. “It is off grid. I don’t think people understand that.”Mabry said the Hylands ditched the truck, which hit some rocks, and fled in the darkness early Monday morning, carrying their son and a jug of water.Authorities scheduled a search for Wednesday at 10 a.m., but Mabry said the couple was found earlier thanks to a family member’s Facebook post on a local fire watch page. A boat from the Colville Tribe’s fish and wildlife agency discovered the couple.According to local news channel KREM, detectives with the sheriff’s office and tribal police are investigating the child’s death as a homicide since the fire could have been “human-caused.”Two hundred miles away, the wildfires came for virtually an entire town.Larry Frick, 53, told The Daily Beast he was visiting his son in Pullman—about 47 miles south—when heavy winds set his community of Malden ablaze on Monday.He and his wife, Chandelle, rushed home to save their dogs and cats, one of which has gone missing. They also believed Chandelle’s mother was home at the time; luckily, she’d left before the fires consumed their neighborhood, ultimately destroying roughly three quarters of the homes in the town.They passed through smoke, fallen trees, and the torched houses of their neighbors. When they got home, their deck and shed were on fire, and they worked for hours to douse the flames with a garden hose and sprinkler. “The whole time, it literally felt like a war zone. Explosions were going off all through town, ammunition, propane tanks, fires blowing up,” Frick said. “A couple made the ground shake.”“We’re still in shock,” Frick added. “I feel a sense of guilt. We have everything and we really don’t need anything but our power back on, and everyone around us has lost everything. They just have the shirts on their backs.”As for the Hylands, relatives said they were shocked and thankful Jamie and Jake were discovered alive. “When you look at the scene, we were like… we don’t know how they could have survived. The truck is like something you couldn’t believe,” Tammie Mabry said. Jim Mabry said he’s gone through a rollercoaster of emotions since his cousin vanished. First he was told the Hyland family survived. Then he learned Uriel had died. The child had joined his parents on a visit to the property last spring during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when they took a walk to the river where they were later rescued.One recent photo shows little Uriel in a carrier on his mother's back as they roamed the land.“Being a mom was her dream,” Tammie said of Jamie Hyland. “She was made to be a mom.” —with additional reporting from Tracy ConnorRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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‘Miracle With a Sad Ending’: Couple Survive But Lose Baby in Wildfire Chaos

When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Monday, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote property in rural Washington state, where wildfires turned pastures of 4-foot-high sage into dust.Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1-year-old son, Uriel, were visiting their land in Okanogan County when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Relatives couldn’t reach the couple, or emergency services, because power lines were down.On Tuesday, Mabry discovered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quarter of a mile from the land. The vehicle had blown through a barbed wire fence. Its windshield had melted, and the steering wheel and dashboard were obliterated, he recalled.“When I first saw the truck, I didn’t want to search,” Mabry told The Daily Beast. “I was so convinced I was coming across remains. Because I didn’t see any chance of them making it.”Yet the Hylands made a harrowing escape, relatives said, abandoning their small pickup truck and heading to the Columbia River, where rescuers miraculously found them Wednesday morning. Their little boy did not survive.Grandmother, 12-Year-Old Grandson, Four More Die as Wildfire Smoke Enshrouds Oregon and California in DarknessNow Jake, 31, and Jamie, 26, are hospitalized in critical condition, their bodies covered in burns. Jamie, who is pregnant, has burns on 50 percent of her body, mostly on her arms, hands and face, Mabry told The Daily Beast.“It’s a miracle with a sad ending,” he said. “They survived, but lost a child.” He added, “They loved their son. He was their ray of hope.”A GoFundMe page—which shows a photo of the couple and their baby smiling on their remote property just a few months ago—has raised more than $117,000 for the family. Jake, his family said, is expected to have at least four more surgeries and will be in the intensive care unit for at least two weeks.The Cold Springs wildfire is just one of a slew of blazes to decimate swaths of the Pacific Northwest and California in recent days, with fires killing at least a dozen people in that state alone, according to the LA Times. In Lyons, Oregon, 12-year-old Wyatt Tofte died beside his dog. His grandmother, Peggy Mosso, was also killed in a blaze. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise in California, Oregon, and Washington, where thousands of residents have faced evacuation orders. In California, the ferocious August Complex fire—which had burned more than 471,000 acres and was only 24 percent contained as of Thursday afternoon—was the largest blaze in state history.Also on Thursday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported 102 fires had burned through 4.3 million acres throughout the country, mostly in the West. The Cold Springs fire, which burned 172,000 acres, was 10 percent contained.Mabry said Jake’s property was deeply isolated—no cell service, electricity, or running water. The closest town is a 45-minute drive. Jake and Jamie stopped at the property to drop some supplies at their Quonset hut on their way home from a wedding in Spokane, Mabry explained, noting that the blaze started around 9:45 p.m. local time Sunday, and reached the property hours later. “People have been making rude comments, about how dumb they are that they didn’t get the evacuation notice,” Mabry’s wife, Tammie, told The Daily Beast. “It is off grid. I don’t think people understand that.”Mabry said the Hylands ditched the truck, which hit some rocks, and fled in the darkness early Monday morning, carrying their son and a jug of water.Authorities scheduled a search for Wednesday at 10 a.m., but Mabry said the couple was found earlier thanks to a family member’s Facebook post on a local fire watch page. A boat from the Colville Tribe’s fish and wildlife agency discovered the couple.According to local news channel KREM, detectives with the sheriff’s office and tribal police are investigating the child’s death as a homicide since the fire could have been “human-caused.”Two hundred miles away, the wildfires came for virtually an entire town.Larry Frick, 53, told The Daily Beast he was visiting his son in Pullman—about 47 miles south—when heavy winds set his community of Malden ablaze on Monday.He and his wife, Chandelle, rushed home to save their dogs and cats, one of which has gone missing. They also believed Chandelle’s mother was home at the time; luckily, she’d left before the fires consumed their neighborhood, ultimately destroying roughly three quarters of the homes in the town.They passed through smoke, fallen trees, and the torched houses of their neighbors. When they got home, their deck and shed were on fire, and they worked for hours to douse the flames with a garden hose and sprinkler. “The whole time, it literally felt like a war zone. Explosions were going off all through town, ammunition, propane tanks, fires blowing up,” Frick said. “A couple made the ground shake.”“We’re still in shock,” Frick added. “I feel a sense of guilt. We have everything and we really don’t need anything but our power back on, and everyone around us has lost everything. They just have the shirts on their backs.”As for the Hylands, relatives said they were shocked and thankful Jamie and Jake were discovered alive. “When you look at the scene, we were like… we don’t know how they could have survived. The truck is like something you couldn’t believe,” Tammie Mabry said. Jim Mabry said he’s gone through a rollercoaster of emotions since his cousin vanished. First he was told the Hyland family survived. Then he learned Uriel had died. The child had joined his parents on a visit to the property last spring during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when they took a walk to the river where they were later rescued.One recent photo shows little Uriel in a carrier on his mother's back as they roamed the land.“Being a mom was her dream,” Tammie said of Jamie Hyland. “She was made to be a mom.” —with additional reporting from Tracy ConnorRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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When he couldn’t reach his cousin Jake Hyland on Monday, Jim Mabry drove to his family’s remote property in rural Washington state, where wildfires turned pastures of 4-foot-high sage into dust.Jake and his wife, Jamie, along with their 1-year-old son, Uriel, were visiting their land in Okanogan County when flames from the Cold Springs Fire ripped through the area. Relatives couldn’t reach the couple, or emergency services, because power lines were down.On Tuesday, Mabry discovered Jake’s truck stuck in a ravine, about a quarter of a mile from the land. The vehicle had blown through a barbed wire fence. Its windshield had melted, and the steering wheel and dashboard were obliterated, he recalled.“When I first saw the truck, I didn’t want to search,” Mabry told The Daily Beast. “I was so convinced I was coming across remains. Because I didn’t see any chance of them making it.”Yet the Hylands made a harrowing escape, relatives said, abandoning their small pickup truck and heading to the Columbia River, where rescuers miraculously found them Wednesday morning. Their little boy did not survive.Grandmother, 12-Year-Old Grandson, Four More Die as Wildfire Smoke Enshrouds Oregon and California in DarknessNow Jake, 31, and Jamie, 26, are hospitalized in critical condition, their bodies covered in burns. Jamie, who is pregnant, has burns on 50 percent of her body, mostly on her arms, hands and face, Mabry told The Daily Beast.“It’s a miracle with a sad ending,” he said. “They survived, but lost a child.” He added, “They loved their son. He was their ray of hope.”A GoFundMe page—which shows a photo of the couple and their baby smiling on their remote property just a few months ago—has raised more than $117,000 for the family. Jake, his family said, is expected to have at least four more surgeries and will be in the intensive care unit for at least two weeks.The Cold Springs wildfire is just one of a slew of blazes to decimate swaths of the Pacific Northwest and California in recent days, with fires killing at least a dozen people in that state alone, according to the LA Times. In Lyons, Oregon, 12-year-old Wyatt Tofte died beside his dog. His grandmother, Peggy Mosso, was also killed in a blaze. Officials said the death toll was expected to rise in California, Oregon, and Washington, where thousands of residents have faced evacuation orders. In California, the ferocious August Complex fire—which had burned more than 471,000 acres and was only 24 percent contained as of Thursday afternoon—was the largest blaze in state history.Also on Thursday, the National Interagency Fire Center reported 102 fires had burned through 4.3 million acres throughout the country, mostly in the West. The Cold Springs fire, which burned 172,000 acres, was 10 percent contained.Mabry said Jake’s property was deeply isolated—no cell service, electricity, or running water. The closest town is a 45-minute drive. Jake and Jamie stopped at the property to drop some supplies at their Quonset hut on their way home from a wedding in Spokane, Mabry explained, noting that the blaze started around 9:45 p.m. local time Sunday, and reached the property hours later. “People have been making rude comments, about how dumb they are that they didn’t get the evacuation notice,” Mabry’s wife, Tammie, told The Daily Beast. “It is off grid. I don’t think people understand that.”Mabry said the Hylands ditched the truck, which hit some rocks, and fled in the darkness early Monday morning, carrying their son and a jug of water.Authorities scheduled a search for Wednesday at 10 a.m., but Mabry said the couple was found earlier thanks to a family member’s Facebook post on a local fire watch page. A boat from the Colville Tribe’s fish and wildlife agency discovered the couple.According to local news channel KREM, detectives with the sheriff’s office and tribal police are investigating the child’s death as a homicide since the fire could have been “human-caused.”Two hundred miles away, the wildfires came for virtually an entire town.Larry Frick, 53, told The Daily Beast he was visiting his son in Pullman—about 47 miles south—when heavy winds set his community of Malden ablaze on Monday.He and his wife, Chandelle, rushed home to save their dogs and cats, one of which has gone missing. They also believed Chandelle’s mother was home at the time; luckily, she’d left before the fires consumed their neighborhood, ultimately destroying roughly three quarters of the homes in the town.They passed through smoke, fallen trees, and the torched houses of their neighbors. When they got home, their deck and shed were on fire, and they worked for hours to douse the flames with a garden hose and sprinkler. “The whole time, it literally felt like a war zone. Explosions were going off all through town, ammunition, propane tanks, fires blowing up,” Frick said. “A couple made the ground shake.”“We’re still in shock,” Frick added. “I feel a sense of guilt. We have everything and we really don’t need anything but our power back on, and everyone around us has lost everything. They just have the shirts on their backs.”As for the Hylands, relatives said they were shocked and thankful Jamie and Jake were discovered alive. “When you look at the scene, we were like… we don’t know how they could have survived. The truck is like something you couldn’t believe,” Tammie Mabry said. Jim Mabry said he’s gone through a rollercoaster of emotions since his cousin vanished. First he was told the Hyland family survived. Then he learned Uriel had died. The child had joined his parents on a visit to the property last spring during the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, when they took a walk to the river where they were later rescued.One recent photo shows little Uriel in a carrier on his mother's back as they roamed the land.“Being a mom was her dream,” Tammie said of Jamie Hyland. “She was made to be a mom.” —with additional reporting from Tracy ConnorRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Juventus On Top Of Serie A At Halfway Stage

The perennial champions once again sit atop the tree in Italy.

Paddy Agnew’s Notes From Italy: Juventus On Top Of Serie A At Halfway Stage

The Italian title, “Campione D’Inverno” (Winter Champions), awarded to the team which is top of Serie A at the exact halfway point in the season, is of course simply a media fantasy rather than a concrete reality. Much loved by headline writers, however, this media fantasy bears a heavy symbolism.

Just to make the point – six times in the last eight years, Juventus have been winter champions and six times they have gone on to win the scudetto. Being Juventus, they also went on to win the title in the two other years, 2015-2016 and 2017-2018, when they were NOT winter champions.

In that context, Juve’s 2-1 Sack of Roma on Sunday night has a look of déjà vu about it. With 19 of the 38 Serie A games played, Juventus are back on top of the table, two points clear of Inter and six clear of third-placed Lazio. Plus ca change, plus…?

What was stunning about Sunday night’s game is that, for all practical purposes, it was all over after just 10 minutes. Juventus, the team that twice lost to Lazio, first in Serie A and then in the SuperCoppa final, in the last weeks of December, would appear to have left those hiccups far behind. Or have they?

The thing is that no team concedes two goals to Juventus in the first ten  minutes and then lives to tell the tale. This was a night of untold misery  for Roma. Firstly, two outstanding defenders in Serb Aleksandr Kolarov and Englishman Chris Smalling failed to clear a third minute free kick from Argentine Paulo Dybala to allow Turkish defender Merih Demiral a free shot on goal from the six yard line. 0-1 down.

Six minutes later, the Roma defence compounded the misery. Opting to play his way out of defence, Roma goalkeeper Pau Lopez passed to French midfielder Jordan Veretout, right on the edge of the penalty area. It was, to say the least, a debatable pass since Dybala, who was lurking close by, promptly caught Veretout off guard, challenged him and forced the Frenchman to foul him, thus conceding a penalty. The boy Ronaldo promptly slotted that one home for his 14th goal of the season. Ten minutes gone, 0-2 down and it was “Game Over” for Roma.

From then on, Juve understandably administered the game to a large extent, giving the impression however that if they really wanted to, then they could easily score a third goal. Indeed, they did score that third goal through Argentine Gonzalo Higuain, only for it to be overruled for an offside.

Roma’s first half misery had been further compounded just after the half hour point when Nicolo Zaniolo, not only Roma’s best player on the night but also one of the most talented players in Roberto Mancini’s Euro2020 Italy squad, fell awkwardly after an inspired slalom run through the Juventus midfield. Zaniolo’s howl of pain could be heard on the stands of the 60,000 plus packed Olimpico.

From the moment he fell, it was obvious that this was a bad injury. Zaniolo’s desperation, the sick, worried look of the other players and the seemingly useless attempts of the Roma staff to ease his pain all pointed only one way. Before the match was over, we were informed that, as many had suspected, he had torn his right cruciate knee ligament.

Zaniolo is now almost certainly out for the rest of the season. He will be badly missed not only by Roma but arguably even more by Italy at Euro2020. Nor did the Sporting Gods finish their dastardly deeds there.

Ten minutes before Zaniolo was stretchered off, Demiral, scorer, of the first goal had also limped off with a serious looking knee injury which on Monday morning was confirmed as another cruciate ligament tear. For Demiral, as for Zaniolo, this season ended at the Olimpico on Sunday night with both players now facing surgery and a four to six months rehabilitation period.

The match, however, was not yet over. Against all the odds, Roma got back into the game for the last 20 minutes, following a 68th minute penalty scored by Argentine forward, Diego Perotti. What was surprising about this period of the game was that in re-finding their courage, in taking the game to Juventus, Roma appeared to cause Juventus some bother.

Indeed, the champions, who for long had appeared totally dominant, spent the final five minutes of time added-on, hanging on anxiously for the final whistle. That little moment of apparent frailty may yet give some courage to those who think that the title contest is not yet over and decided.

The anti-Juve camp, though, has to process some pretty intimidating information. Firstly, as we move towards the spring and the resumption of the Champions League, Juve, who face Lyon in the second round, are gearing up.

Secondly, their main man, Cristiano Ronaldo is looking very perky indeed. He has now scored nine goals in his last six games. He remains a phenomenally self-centred but absurdly talented player capable of producing moments of pure magic such as he did when drifting past Chris Smalling, no defensive sluggard, with mesmerising footwork, halfway through Juve’s stunning first half.

Whilst coach Maurizio Sarri continues to rotate his attack, sometimes lining out with the terrible three, Ronaldo, Dybala and Higuain or sometimes just Ronaldo and Dybala plus an attacking midfielder such as Aaron Ramsey, one thing remains clear. The one player whose name will always be in the team sheet is that of Ronaldo.

Thirdly, the anti-Juve camp have taken plenty of courage in the last month from the rise of and rise, not only of Inter but also of Lazio.  Inter’s 1-1 Saturday night draw at home to Atalanta, however, showed that they are feeling the pressure of matching strides with Juventus. Admittedly, Atalanta are an excellent side, capable of playing high quality, intensive football. Had they beaten Inter, who opened the scoring with a 4th minute goal from Argentine Lautaro Martinez, Atalanta would have stolen nothing.

Those who believe in destiny might argue that Juve’s only other serious rivals, namely 3rd placed Lazio, could end up becoming bigger obstacles to the Old Lady than Inter. Last Saturday, Lazio, continued their magical moment winning their 10th consecutive league game 1-0 at home to Napoli 1-0.

Here again, the Sporting Gods had a heavy say. With the game evenly balanced on 0-0, Napoli goalkeeper Colombian David Ospina, in the 82nd minute unwisely attempted to dribble his way past Serie A’s leading goalscorer, Ciro Immobile, rather than pass to one of two defenders or to just blast it upfield. Immobile predictably took the candy from the baby to slot home his 20th goal of the season, despite the frantic clearance efforts of defender Giovanni Di Lorenzo who only managed to knock the ball into his own, unguarded goal.

In this, the year when Lazio celebrate their 120th anniversary, this is the first time ever that they have won 10 Serie A games in a row. There are those tempted to think that Immobile’s goal is a sign of destiny for Lazio in this special year. That could be but World Soccer remains unconvinced by Lazio’s comparatively weaker overall squad strength

For the time being, we can be grateful that this year at least, the Old Lady is not running away with the title, without at least a struggle on the road to the scudetto. She might be “campione d’inverno” but she still has to win the real title.

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A Michigan community has been left heartbroken and stunned after one of their high school football players unexpectedly died on Friday after recently undergoing knee surgery.

Trevon Tyler, a 16-year-old junior at South Lyon East High School who played guard and tackle for Cougars, suffered a torn meniscus during an Oct. 4 football game, Detroit Free Press reports.

After suffering the season-ending injury, the 6’4″, 300-pound starting lineman underwent a routine knee surgery, which his head coach Joe Pesci said went successfully.

“He had surgery maybe three or 3½ weeks ago to have that fixed,” Pesci told the local outlet. “That surgery went really well. They fixed everything up. He had been doing physical therapy with our trainer at the school.”

However, things took a turn for the worst last week when Pesci said Tyler went back into follow-up surgery, where he suffered major complications.

“I guess he had to go back in, to get something cleaned up, a week ago last Monday,” he explained. “They said that went well. They took care of everything. Everybody went on break. He was in good spirits.”

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“I guess, Thursday night, maybe late, he developed a blood clot,” Pesci continued. “And Friday morning, we were told he developed a blood clot, which led to a heart attack, and he passed away Friday morning. It’s somewhat mind-boggling that it could happen.”

The tragic news was confirmed in a GoFundMe page, which was set up by the football boosters on behalf of Tyler’s family to assist with the “unexpected expenses”. The description says that Tyler’s death was a result of a complication from his recent surgery.

“His community is heartbroken,” the page reads. “He wasn’t just a player respected by his coaches and teammates he was a friend and student loved by so many here at South Lyon East High School and in the South Lyon Community.”

“More importantly, he was a son, a brother and loved family member,” the page continues. “He will be missed by his family, teammates, coaches, and everyone who was blessed to have known him.”

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Additional comments on the page from Tyler’s loved ones remembered the teen as a “very nice student and young man” with a “colorful smile and infectious positive attitude.”

“Trevon was one of my good friends who impacted many lives and never stopped caring for people,” wrote someone, while another coach of Tyler’s added, “Coaching Tre was a great joy in my life. He always had everyone laughing. I was looking forward to watching him grow up.”

“He was a great kid; I remember him always having a smile on his face,” added another person.

Following news of Tyler’s death, Pesci said the coaches at South Lyon East held a meeting with their players to help them cope with the sudden loss, which fell on Thanksgiving break.

Pesci told the Detroit Free Press that they invited the players to their locker room, where they could cry and grieve over Tyler’s tragic death, as well as share memories of the teen.

“We had about 20 guys there, six coaches and my athletic director,” Pesci explained to the outlet. “For about an hour we sat in the locker and talked about the situation about Trevon.”

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“It was tough. The guys start coming in. All you want to do is hug each one of them and tell them that you love them,” he continued. “We hugged every kid on the way in, and then on the way out it was the same thing. You are still kind of numb and don’t know what to do. We just want to make sure we are there for our kids.”

Pesci also noted that the coaches made sure to emphasize to their athletes the importance of speaking to someone during this difficult time.

“We just expressed to our guys, ‘We are all hurting. You are going to be hurting for a while. The big thing is, don’t keep it in. Make sure as feelings start to build up, reach out to one of us, to a teammate, a parent, whatever. Just to get it out,'” he recalled.

In the wake of Tyler’s death, South Lyon East held a schoolwide whiteout on Monday. The Michigan community also showed their support for the late teen and his family by tying white ribbons around their trees, according to the GoFundMe page.

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As for the football team, Offensive Line Coach Chad Stuckey told the Detroit Free Press they plan on honoring Tyler in the offseason, as well as in the coming football seasons.

“We have a saying at East. It’s called ‘Be EAST’. We tell the kids, ‘Be Engaged, Be Accountable, Be Selfless and Be Tough,'” he explained to the outlet. “When we break a huddle, we chant, ‘We are?’ And everybody goes, ‘East!’ And then, ‘We will?’ … Our slogan for next year is going to be: ‘We are East! We will? Play for Tre!'”

“I think he could have played at the next level,” Stuckey continued of Tyler’s legacy. “He was an athletic kid, good feet. Hardworking kid.”

But it’s not just his performance on the field that Tyler will be remembered for.

“As a kid, just the nicest, most fun-loving, caring kid,” added Pesci. “Walked with a pretty big pep in his step. He always said hi to everybody. Everybody loved him. He was a little bit of a jokester. Had this big laugh. Always made you smile.”

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Cameron Norrie struggled to cope with the Wawrinka serve

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British number two Cameron Norrie was knocked out in the first round of the Fever-Tree Championships at Queen’s Club by Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka.

Three-time Grand Slam champion Wawrinka, who has dropped to 261 in the world after injury, won 6-2 6-3 against the world number 80.

He next faces 2010 champion Sam Querrey, who beat 19-year-old Briton Jay Clarke 6-3 6-3.

Britain’s Andy Murray makes his return to competitive action on Tuesday.

Croatian top seed and 2012 champion Marin Cilic progressed with a 6-3 6-4 win over Spain’s Fernando Verdasco.

Sixth seed Jack Sock of the United States lost 7-5 6-3 to 22-year-old unseeded Russian Daniil Medvedev.

Luxembourg’s Gilles Muller won 7-6 (9-7) 7-6 (8-6) against Canadian teenager Denis Shapovalov.

Wawrinka too strong for Norrie

Norrie, 22, has enjoyed a rapid rise this year, climbing into the top 100 for the first time and reaching his first ATP Tour semi-final on the clay in Lyon.

On his way to the last four he earned the biggest win of his career against American world number 10 John Isner, then pushed French number one Lucas Pouille in their French Open second-round match.

But going into Monday’s match against Wawrinka, Norrie had won only two tour-level matches on grass.

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Victory was only Wawrinka’s second on grass in the past three years.

However, his greater pedigree – and power – told as Norrie was far from his best.

Norrie saved a break point in his first service game, only for the powerful Wawrinka to take another opportunity for a 3-1 lead.

Wawrinka dominated the first set, based on some big serving and dominant groundstrokes, and broke again in the final game to wrap up the opener in 27 minutes.

The former Australian Open, French Open and US Open champion broke again early in the second set, going on to seal a comfortable win in less than an hour.

I’m happy to be back healthy and fit – Wawrinka

Wawrinka sat out the second half of the 2017 season after needing knee surgery following his early Wimbledon exit last year, before suffering another setback earlier this year.

Victory over Norrie was only his fifth since his first-round SW19 defeat by Daniil Medvedev in July.

“I’m really happy. It was a really good start – it is never easy, the first match on grass. I served well and I’m happy to be back healthy and fit,” said Wawrinka, who lost in the first round of the French Open last month.

“In general it has been improving and now I feel really good on the court. I feel strong physically.

“I know I will have some ups and downs. I need to be patient, especially mentally, and ready to accept the frustration of not playing my best tennis.”

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How To Save A Life || Bonfamille’s Anatomy

Summary: Intern Beredith Berlioz Bonfamille is in for a night of #drama and #death when #disaster strikes Swynlake.

this is not good. 

[BERLIOZ V.O.]

“You know, people ask surgeons all the time—why’d they do it? Why’d they become surgeons? Why spend so much money, give away six to eight years of your life, abandon friends and family and your social life for the opportunity to cut someone open? How is it possibly worth it?

It’s not. Not for me. I come from a long line of surgeons. My dad owns one of the biggest hospitals in France with a research center that churns out new medications, new findings, and new doctors. My brother is a gifted cardiothoracic demi-god who knows how to make hearts beat again.

But I’m just an intern. And my scrubs are too short. Do you know how embarrassing that is, walking the hospital hallways with my scrubs looking like they’re hiked too high? Me, the brother of the Heart God, walking around in scrubs that don’t fit. Someone just kill me now.

‘Course, bad luck to say that in a hospital, eh? Death never turns down an invitation.” 

-

The fire hit Swynlake the eve of Halloween, erupting from one of the newly refurbished dorm halls in Pride University. From there, it spread like an unnatural beast, leaping from building to building. It spread into the trees. It darted down the main street. The firefighters tried to control it but it was all over the place. It was alive. Like it had a mind of its own.

The 2017 class of interns were gathered together by their resident who was already tying up her thin plastic yellow cover over her scrubs. “Alright listen, because they’re gonna come in waves and they’re not gonna stop,” spat Andrina Triton, fourth year resident. “Keep your head above water. Merida, you’re in pit with Berlioz. Mowgli—where the fuck is Mowgli?” she said, twisting all around. Her voice raised and snapped like a whip, “MOWGLI!”

“Here!” squeaked the boy, sliding in and bringing the thick smell of smoke with him. Ber’s eyes widened at his frazzled hair, a few burns on his hand and soot on his face. He pulled off his civilian shirt and bounded toward his locker.

“Hey, what the hell are you—why weren’t you here?” Triton growled, then sucked her teeth. “You know what, nevermind, I literally do not have the time for this. Seeoonee, you take the camera, start snapping pictures and get a board together for the family members when they get here. I need all hands on desk, people!”

“She sure loves her ocean metaphors,” grumbled Merida as they followed Andrina out into the emergency room. “I jus’ hope I get a surgery outta this.”

“People are gonna be in so much pain, how could you say--” hissed Ber back at her.

“Hey! Bonfamille. Clam up!” yelled Triton. Of course.

But Berlioz did not have time to complain. Because wham!—the door was kicked open and in rushed a firefighter, cradling a girl in his arms.

“I need help, I need help over here!” Paul Patts shouted. He bolted toward the bed, lying the girl down. Merida rushed forward at once.

“She’s got burns covering over forty percent of her body. What’d you give her in the field?” Merida jabbered off.

But Berlioz could only stare. Through the gap between Paul and Merida’s body, he can still the trembling, shocked face of Kiara Lyons, the cousin of Simba Lyons—chief neurosurgeon.  She was a fresher at the dorms, she was—supposed to be at a party tonight. That was all, a party. How could this have happened?

He had to tell Simba.

He had to tell Simba before he saw it himself.

“BONFAMILLE, what are you doing! Didn’t you hear Nurse Dearly, she needs help intubating that patient!” Triton snapped. Ber swallowed and looked toward the nurse who was shouting for help. He gave one last look at Kiara and then darted toward Dearly and the man she was trying to hold still. He was so badly burned Ber couldn’t make out who it was. But it wasn’t just burns. He could tell by the way the man’s leg was positioned.

“What—”

“—happened? He ran into a burning building to help the kids escape,” sighed Nurse Dearly. “And then he jumped out of it when the stairs collapsed. He had no other choice.”

Ber swallowed rough. “Is … he…”

“We’re going to everything we can, Berlioz,” Nurse Dearly said softly, smiling a little at him. She usually worked in the pediatric ward. Ber would not mind working in pedes if he were honest, but he knew that his family would never allow it. It would be a blight to the Bonfamille name.

“I was paged about head trauma,” came the voice of Dr. Acheron, scrub cap firmly in place.

“Oh yes, Dr. Acheron thank goodness—this young man jumped out of a third-story building. We’re looking at several crushed vertebrae as well as fractures to the tibula and fibula—”

“Oi, I was paged about tibulas and fibulas, alright,” said Dr. Calame, popping up from behind Acheron with a concentrated look on her face, grabbing the chart from Acheron. Ber instantly stepped back, trying to blend into the curtain they’d pulled around this broken man. “Is this our John Doe? God, he’s already a mess.”

“I need to get in there right away, Calame,” gritted Acheron.  “This man’s probably paralyzed for life, nothing you can do about his legs. I, on the other hand, could stop what is probably a brain bleed—”

“What if I could save the use of his legs eh, what then? Don’t you think a man like this, six foot five, runs into burning buildings, wants the use of his legs?”

“We’re taking him for a trauma panel. Bonfamille, order a CT right away. Ignore everything Calame says,” instructed Acheron as though Dr. Calame had not talked at all. Ber swallowed, nodding quickly.

“Y-yes, Dr. Acheron. Uh—Dr—Acheron—” he stepped forward, then quickly stopped again, like his feet were stuck in glue. The neurosurgeon turned around, cocking a brow.

“Yes, Bonfamille?”

“It—is—Dr. Lyons in surgery?”

“Why don’t you ask his wife?” Dr. Acheron said and then sauntered away.

Dr. Calame scoffed. “Don’t worry about him, he’s nothin’ but hot air. Do you need my husband for something?”

“N-no, I—” He swallowed, seeing a flash of Kiara’s charred, burned body before his eyes. He knew that Nala Calame would want to know too. He opened his mouth—

Beep beep beep.

“Shit, gotta run. Hey, let me know about those CT results too! Acheron’s not the only one with work to do!” She called back over her shoulder as she disappeared around the corner.

-

Ber took his John Doe up to CT as instructed, making awkward small talk with the technician, Milo Thatch. As he waited for the scans to get pulled up, he pushed out the small room, feeling claustrophobic. He wanted to pace, to fidget, until he couldn’t stand it anymore. It might be all hands on desk, the hospital a mad house as more victims from the fire pour in, but someone has to tell Simba about Kiara. Someone.

Even if it was Berlioz.

Last time he and Simba had spoken about something not surgery-related was over a week ago, in the on-call room, huddled in bed together. They’d started sleeping together days before Berlioz’s internship, though in his defense—he’d not known he was sleeping with Simba Lyons, chief of neurosurgery. Back then, he’d just been a guy in a bar.

Who knew that that guy in the bar, the one with terrible jokes and a too-loud laugh and enough confidence to fill this hospital twice over with cocky surgeons, would be Berlioz’s boss? His married boss? Married to his other boss?

A week ago, Berlioz had asked him if he was gonna ever leave Nala.

A week ago, Simba had hesitated.

A week ago, they’d got into their first fight. It had flared up fast and got out of control, and by the end of it, Ber was pretty sure his not-relationship was burned to the ground and his “career” in “surgery” was over.

But now, a week later, Kiara Lyons was in a bed downstairs and as far as Berlioz knew, Simba didn’t know.

Beep beep beep. It didn’t take very long for Simba to saunter down to CT. He walked with a confident, fast gait like always, though on any other day, he’d be smiling. Not that he’d ever smile at Berlioz ever again.

“Yes?” he said as he arrived, tugging tighter on the ties of his scrub cap.

“I—need an opinion on this CT,” Berlioz lied. Simba’s eyes flick over Ber’s shoulder to the room and then he brushes past Ber into it. Ber closed his eyes. It felt like a punch to the stomach.

“He’s got—a subdural hematoma right here. C’mon, get a look,” instructed Simba. Ber swallowed and dragged his feet—one after the other. Simba pointed out the hemotoma again, though ‘course Ber saw it himself. That wasn’t what he needed to say.

“Prognosis?” murmured Simba, glancing at Ber. Ber stared at the scan. He could not look at Simba. Not right now.

“We ah, we watch it. Patient’s sustained a lot of trauma and severe burns, surgery might kill him,” he uttered.

“Uh-huh,” uttered Simba. “Good.” He straightened, a hand on the table, body turned toward Berlioz. He didn’t move. Ber couldn’t move either. He swallowed again, biting down on his lip—he didn’t know. Obviously, he didn’t know, or he wouldn’t be here.

Ber jerked his head away from the scan and met Simba’s eyes. For the first time in a long, long time, they were soft. Ber wanted nothing more than to say nothing at all.

But he couldn’t, so, “Kiara was at the party where the fire erupted,” he said quickly. “She’s down in the pit. I thought you should know—”

The light drained from Simba’s eyes at once. All that softness went hard and Simba shoved his way past Ber.

“I can’t BELIEVE you didn’t say that FIRST THING—” snarled Simba.

Ber moved without thinking, rushing after him—stopping half-way in the hall as he realized he bloody couldn’t leave a bloody patient unintended—

He looked around and spotted Nurse Takayama. “Oi, can you—I need you to bring my patient to the ICU, page Dr. Acheron and Dr. Calame—thanks! Sorry! Uh—gotta go!”

“Er—you’re welcome?” called the Nurse in confusion but Ber was already racing down the hall.

He barely slid into the elevator after Simba in time, the doors shutting with no sound at all, which somehow made it more ominous. Simba glared at him, his hands going to his hips. “What the fuck are you doing in here, Berlioz, you were with a patient—”

“I, I know, I—”

“You paged me as I was closing a patient, you realize that, yeah? As I was closing a patient. What the fuck—”

“I know—”

“This is why we—” Simba motioned between them, “—would never work. You’re irresponsible, you’re selfish—you have no sense of judgment, no common sense at all—”

“I know—”

“Stop saying you know!” snarled Simba. “You don’t know or you wouldn’t have done it, you wouldn’t have followed me in here—why the hell do you think that would ever be okay—”

“Because I love you!” blurted Berlioz before it was too late to say it, and too late to take it back.

Simba’s face twisted. The elevator shuddered as it went down, down, down…

Berlioz took a shaky breath in himself. “I know…that now is not the time to say it. I know that we’re never going to work. I know it’s over. But Simba, I couldn’t—I wanted you to know about Kiara. The chief wouldn’t have told you. Not until after all the surgeries—“

“So I could stay focused. That’s why the Chief would…” started Simba, but he sounded confused, trailing off half-way through his sentence.

“I know,” said Ber. “I’m sorry I keep—saying that, but—I just don’t think... that’s right. I’m sorry. I messed up, I’m not m-my brother o-or my dad, or--  I’m not a good surgeon. But I love you, and I’ll do anything I can to make sure Kiara is okay. I-if you can’t be there, then I’ll—I’ll be there.”

Simba stared. Then he took a step forward. Berlioz’s heart dropped again and he opened his mouth--

Ding.

Both Simba and Ber jerk their heads to the side to see Chief Ficente standing in her scrubs, arms folded. She tilted her head and a tiny smile twitched onto her lips.

“Dr. Lyons, Dr. Bonfamille,” she greeted. “Going down to help the barrage of victims of this horribly awful, unpredictable fire, are we?”

Ber and Simba nodded in union, both ducking their head and stepping out of the elevator quickly.

“Good,” said Chief Ficente. “Let’s save lives tonight, gentlemen.” And as the doors closed on her again, Berlioz and Simba’s pagers both went off, a chorus of beeps, one after the other, almost like they were in song.

Course that wasn’t it at all—nothing about he and Simba was a song. Not anymore.

Ber checked his pager and saw it was Nurse Takayama. Simba checked his too. “Shit, I got surgery—”

“I’ll check on Kiara as soon as I can,” said Ber. He began to back up. “I promise. I’ll make sure she doesn’t—I promise!” Then his shoes squeaked on the tile as he turned and bolted down the hall again, back to his John Doe.

-

 “We’re doing surgery?” uttered Ber, blinking rapidly at Hades. “But—it’s small, it—it could go awa—” He stopped mid-sentence, feeling Dr. Acheron’s eyes bore into him. He wanted to shrink back into the wall again.

“I’m not a wait and see kind of bloke—not my speed. If this goes south, it will go south fast. By the time I open him up, he’ll be braindead.”

But what if he dies because of the surgery? Ber wanted to say. He swallowed the words back though and just nodded.

Dr. Acheron pushed off from the wall. “Well? Don’t just stand there like a moron—are you going to scrub in or not?”

And Berlioz, honestly—he knows for the first time today the exact right thing to say.

“Actually, Dr. Acheron, I think I’ll be more useful in the pit. There are a lot of injuries. If you—if you don’t need me, th-that is.”

Dr. Acheron made a face that—actually—looked…impressed? “Fair enough, Bonfamille. I don’t need you. I’ll page you for post-op.”

“Thank you Dr. Acheron,” said Berlioz. His feet were already in motion, taking him back down the hall, back toward the elevator—back where his promise waited for him.

  At 01:42, John Doe was pronounced dead. It was Merida who told ‘em, frolicking in where he sat in a room with Kiara, checking her vitals, keeping post—just as he said he would. Merida wore a big grin on your face. “Looks like your guy kicked it, eh? Didn’t even scrub in too.” She tsked and shook her head.

Ber just stared at her. “You’re…awful, you…realize that yeah?”

Merida shrugged. “Least I’m not the family disappointment.” She gave a hearty chuckle, then turned to go. “See you later, Berlioz!”

2:29. A soft chuckle jerked Ber awake and he blinked blearily toward Simba, who leaned again the frame of  Kiara’s room. Ber’s feet fell back down on the ground, from having tried to curl ‘em up in the chair all awkward. His knees cracked and he swallowed and rubbed at his face.

“I love those stupid short scrubs on you,” commented Simba, wandering in and around the bed. “Unfair, really.”

“If by unfair, y’mean I should get some scrubs in my size,” mumbled Berlioz. And Simba laughed again, soft. Not quite a Simba laugh. But almost.

“You really did it,” he said, after. For a second Ber has no idea what he meant. Did what? Let his patient die? Let Acheron walk all over him? Shirk surgeries and probably get a lecture about it from Lou tomorrow—again?

But no, Simba meant what Ber was doing right now: sitting with Kiara.

“Yeah, I—yeah,” he said. “She’s uh, she’s doin’ good. She’ll be okay, I mean—it’ll be a long road, and—and plastics, probably but—” Ber moved his hand and awkwardly pat at the side of Kiara’s bed, as if to say Atta girl!

God, he hated himself.

But then Simba’s hand fell on top of his and Ber froze in place.

“Thank you,” said Simba.

And he curled his fingers over Berlioz’s and kept them there. And neither of them moved or said anything else. They just listened to the calm and steady sound of the heart monitor as though it were singing: alive, alive, alive.