THIS WASN'T OVER.

I ran up to Captain Noroski, the fire chief, who was bark-ing commands to his men searching through the house. "Lightower's sister says there was a six-month-old baby inside."

"No one's inside, Lieutenant. My men are just finishing the upper floor. Unless you wanna go inside and look around again yourself."

Suddenly the layout of the burning building came back to me. I could see it now. Down that same hallway where I'd found the boy. My heart jumped. "Not the upper floors, Captain, the first." There could've been a nursery down there, too.

Noroski radioed someone still inside the site............