![]() ![]() Everyone in the Victoria Police Arson and Explosives Squad was called back. The night before, he had been called back from paternity leave for a 6am meeting. ![]() ![]() On Saturday February 7, 2009, around 1.30pm, a fire started somewhere near here and now, late on Sunday afternoon, it is still burning several kilometres away.ĭetective Henry has a new baby, his first, a week out of hospital. On the other side, near where the road forms a T with a track named Jellef’s Outlet, stand rows of Eucalyptus globulus, the common blue gum cultivated the world over to make printer paper. On one side of Glendonald Road, the timber plantation is untouched: pristine Pinus radiata, all sown at the same time, growing in immaculate green lines. These woods are cordoned off with crime scene tape and guarded by uniformed police officers.Īt the intersection of two nondescript roads, Detective Sergeant Adam Henry sits in his car taking in a puzzle. Place your foot unwisely and it might slip through and burn. Smoke creeps around their charcoal trunks and charred leaves. Here, too, in this timber plantation, menace lingers. Woods are dangerous places in such stories, things are not as they seem. Straight black trees stretching in perfect symmetry to their vanishing point, the ground covered in thick white snow. ![]()
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