Tunnel Vision

Locale: rural, lakeside family resort belonging to the family of the department's deputy chief.

Time of day: early evening, late fall

Tone: for a man down in one of the cabins

� We responded - several of us, because nothing much was going on at that particular time.

� The only one who didn't sign on was the deputy - he was at the local PTA meeting.

� Entering the cabin, they walked past a family gathered on the small porch. Heard the crying, felt the fear, but didn't really register the faces of those gathered there.

� Inside the cabin, on the floor, CPR in progress, was the deputy's father.

� It took five people to keep the deputy out of the rig. They knew his dad wasn't going to make it - it had been far too long before he was found. But they tried anyway, because the man was family.

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