High up in the trees of the Amazon Rainforest you could see the faint glow of two shadows. One shadow belonged to an adult chimp. Another belonged to an infant the size of one big basketball. Birds flapped and flapped into the sky where the clouds hid them. Prowling panthers and pouncing parrots roamed in the bushes.  A Scientist named Lynn and her assistant Kara wandered into the thick bushy coatings of the rainforest.  Lynn was there to learn more about the rainforest and how to preserve it. Much of the life in the rainforests were found on trees but she couldn’t see any.

She whispered to herself, ”why can’t I find them?” and sat on a log. She spotted a few tree frogs hop on by and saw tiny tadpoles on their backs.

 “Can you bring the camera?” Lynn asked.

 “Sure thing!” Kara said back.

 They saw fish swim by and an endless amount of trees. They both sighed in the beauty of nature as they stared into the void of trees.

As Lynn left she saw a bright spark and then some smoke. She wondered what it might be and quickly wrote the event in her journal.

She turned up to the old Kapok tree that has survived for the past 60 years and hollered out to Kara, “Let’s go up, I need to see what’s happening.” 

Kara said back in a loud voice,” Ok I’m coming.”

 Then as Lynn turned to see the distance go up she said to herself,” It’s going to take forever.”  However, Lynn kept this to herself because she didn’t want to discourage Kara, especially since it was her first time. She chained her first chain. Clank. She put her feet up. Clack. She repeated this again and again. Click, clank, click clank. They were finally up. That’s when they found the fire.

“Kara, get the bucket of water quickly!” Lynn said in a hurried way.

Kara rushed to get the bucket of water and splashed it against the blazing fire. It calmed down. A gentle breeze blew by and the fire roze again. Lynn stepped on it. The fire calmed down again. 

“I think the fire’s gone now,” Kara declared.

 “I think so too, Kara,” said Lynn in a calmed tone. Just as Lynn finished saying that, a gust of wind blew and caused the fire to rise like a flamey tornado. Lynn tried to stay calm although it was hard since the fire had gotten so big. They both saw the fire scorch up and destroy everything in its path. They couldn’t just wait for rain either because it could take 10 minutes for a raindrop to fall to the ground due to trees. The fire got higher, stronger, bigger and more intense. They quickly dialed the rescuers and told them a fire had started. The head of the rescuers said that they’ll hurry but it’ll take at least 1 hour.

 “1 hour!” Lynn cried out. “We can’t wait that long!”

Animals were rushing away from the fire and screeching, howling and barking. Some were injured. The birds they saw earlier were covered with ashes and the once majestic tree had been burnt to the ground. 

“We’ve got to do something but what?” Kara said in a discouraged voice.

That’s when it came to Lynn. There was a creek nearby. They couldn’t stop the whole fire but they could make it smaller.

 “Get all the buckets you have Kara, we’re going to the creek,” exclaimed Lynn. They carried all they could and got buckets full of water. They splashed it again and again but it was no use. The fire just kept on getting bigger.