According to Echo Three, even as the president’s protective detail hustled the president and his family into the sanctuary, the EMTs were treating R...ptor and Echo One while the backup detail cleared the steps. Echo Three told her the second team and MPD Detective Suzanne Fredericks had shot the second gunman dead, and the counter assault team had neutralized the first gunman across Wisconsin Avenue.Raptor didn’t really understand what made her move to protect Sunshine, only that she’d acted. A glow was coming right from where the factory was at. I made it half way down the street to where the firemen had blocked all the traffic. The entire factory was engulfed in flames. I parked my car on the side of the road and joined some other co-workers nearby who were staring at the flames. No one had any idea what happened. It was obvious there was not going to be any work, at least for today.About an hour later one of the supervisors came by and told everyone to just go home and someone. Finally the speeches finished and we all started chatting again, but it was obvious to me that Carrie was only interested in talking to Phil....and this was very much reciprocated. Eventually we moved out into the bar area, I invited Phil to stay with our group as he was in his own. He was more than happy with this arrangement and positioning himself so he could look straight at Carrie (she had a green halter neck dress on that was just above her knee. Underneath she had a strapless mint green. Even so, his little flare up vanished quickly. Regardless of what he felt, Gort knew that I would do the same for him and for anyone else in my community if it was needed, and I was the chief. He just nodded his understanding and he went off to do was I had asked.“So you can speak to them?” Carmen asked as she got to work on Gus.“Who are ‘them’?” I enquired curtly in reply.The tone of my voice startled Carmen and Gus. Both looked at me and then they looked at each other. Finally Carmen bit her.