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Daisy had been in the back room of the Boars Nest serving Boss Hogg one of his mint juleps when the fire had started. She had heard the crash of something glass breaking and then the screams of "FIRE, FIRE!"

The very next thing she was aware of was the whole room in front of her going up like a torch as all the alcohol ignited. She had automatically slammed the door shut and turned to Boss Hogg, who was watching her with a panicked expression on his face.

The air in the room was heating up quickly and she knew they had only minutes to get to safety before the fire either entered the room, or the smoke did. Being brought up on a farm, she had been taught fire safety alongside her cousins. The dry hay in the barn was prone to catch fire, and all the Dukes had always drilled on fire escape routes.

The first thing Daisy did after realizing they wouldn't be getting out the door was to assess the room for any other escape routes. There were windows, but they were shut and the glass was the double safety kind that Boss used to deter people from breaking in. It was not going to be easy for her to break them alone.

She realized they were trapped and would have to await a rescue. The second thing she did was to push Boss Hogg down to the floor even as he sputtered to her. She gave him a look that commanded his attention and hollered at him. "Stay down! The cleaner air will be down towards the floor!"

There was a small sink in the corner of the office and Daisy then grabbed the towel she had been using to wipe up spills. With a strength she didn't realize she had, she tore it in two pieces and ran to the sink. She soaked them, then went to Boss Hogg and grabbed one of his chubby hands and forced the towel into it.

"Put this over your mouth and nose and breathe through it!" She ordered, while doing the same for herself. "If you don't you will be dead from smoke inhalation in minutes!" She was relieved to see him comply.

They could both hear the flames right outside the door and realized that it wouldn't take long for the dry wood of this place to be eaten up. Daisy continued to scan the room for anything she could use to break the glass on the windows.

Her eyes fell on different objects in the room but none of them would be strong enough to break the glass, or they would be to heavy for her to lift alone. Boss Hogg was now whimpering on the floor and she realized that he wouldn't be much help. He had already reached the panicked stage.

With time running out on her, she picked up a rather large paperweight and began slamming it against the window. It created a spider web of cracks in the glass but the window held. She tried again and again, trying to force the cracks into breaks, then had to stop to drop to the floor to get a breath of cleaner air. The room was now becoming more like a sauna as the heat from the fire outside now flooded the room. Boss Hogg was still on the floor, sweating like a stuck pig and his skin was beginning to match the color of his white suit.

"Boss!" she yelled at him. "We need to break that window! I need your help!" She pointed towards the window she had been working on. "It's our only way out!"

He nodded towards her but didn't make any moves. "We're gonna die!" He moaned. "Those windows were designed to be unbreakable!" He then broke out in a fit of coughing.

Daisy pressed her own cloth to her face as she realized that without his help, she was trapped with him. With the room getting hotter, the flames right outside the door, and smoke now pouring in through the cracks, they didn't have much time left.

She was already feeling light-headed. She bit her lip and picked up the paperweight and went back to the window, and resumed her slamming. This had to work, this had to. They had no other choice.

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The normal fifteen minute drive to the Boars Nest was shortened down to four minutes as the General literally flew there. When they arrived and slammed the car into park, both boys nearly had their hearts stopped at the sight. The building was engulfed in eight foot high flames.

Both boys had slid out of the windows and had grabbed the fire extinguishers from the trunk of the General that Luke had opened. Not that the little things would do anything against that large blaze.

The fire department was already on scene and spraying the building down, trying to get the flames low enough to get their men inside.

Rosco and Enos were standing by the fire truck arguing with the captain, but when they saw the Dukes, they raced right over. "They are in the back!" Rosco yelled over the roar of the flames. "They are preparing a rescue team now!"

Luke looked to where Enos was staring at a group of firemen all suited up to enter the building. The trouble was, the Hazzard Fire Department wasn't all that well trained, seeing how there was less than three fires per year in Hazzard.

"We don't have time to wait for them!" he yelled back and raced around the back of the building. Bo nodded and said, "Wait here, guys!" then took off after his cousin.

When they got around the back of the building they saw the flames eating at the dry wood. Luke spotted the spider web of cracks on the window and realized that someone inside must have made them. "In there!" he yelled and pointed. He pulled the pin on his fire extinguisher and began to spray the foam on the flames eating away at the window. The thick smoke coming off the building had both boys coughing and their eyes watering madly.

Bo waited a moment then added his own to the blaze. In minutes they had the flames controlled enough for Bo to approach the window and attempt to break it. He kicked at the stubborn glass with one booted foot. He was rewarded with it breaking. Another kick had it shattering. He stuck his head in the window and saw Daisy passed out on the floor right next to Boss Hogg.

He pulled his head out. "They are in here and they are unconscious!" Bo then slid in the empty window. The fumes inside were worse than outside. He pulled his shirt off and wrapped it around his face to help keep the noxious fumes away. By the time he was down on the floor the firemen had joined Luke.

One slid in the window and helped Bo raise Boss Hogg up and handed him out the window where he was carried to safety. Bo then grabbed Daisy who was just barely hanging on to consciousness. "You'll be alright," he told her, his voice muffled by the cloth covering his face.

The fireman jumped out the window and was preparing to take Daisy from him when the roof chose that time to collapse. Bo heard the splintering just before it fell and slid himself and Daisy under the pool table in the center of the room. He covered her slender body with his own.

Luke was watching outside as the roof caved in. "BO!" he yelled as three firemen held him back from racing to the rescue. "I gotta help him!" he yelled at them. "BO! DAISY!!" He tried to free himself but found that he was being forcibly dragged from the scene.

Bo waited until the crashing stopped before taking a moment to assess their current situation. The pool table was covered in flaming bits of the roof. The smoke in the room was thick and black. He could barely see a foot in front of his face.

The only thing going in his favor for the moment was his allergies were not acting up. Surprising seeing how smoke was definitely one of the things he was allergic to. He looked at Daisy's soot covered face and touched it gently. "I'll get you out." It was more wishful thinking now than ever before.

She nodded once then lost consciousness completely having been inside way too long. Bo felt his own hold slipping as he coughed from the smoke invading his system. He felt dizzy, and sick. With his last bit of strength, he kicked at the flaming boards lying against the pool table. A few of them fell aside, clearing a space that he could crawl through.

The room was hot, very damn hot, and he felt like all his skin was cooking from the inside out. Just when he thought he was going to pass out completely he felt something ice cold splash against his skin.

Water.

The fire department was spraying the inside of the room with cold water. He grabbed Daisy and crawled in the direction of the spray. If they could get wet, they stood a chance at surviving. The smoke inside made it difficult to find the source. Coughing and choking now, he felt around with one hand until he found a puddle, then rolled Daisy into it. He then rolled himself in the same puddle, knowing the flames would take longer to catch on wet clothing than dry.

His voice had gone by now so he couldn't yell for help. He struggled to raise her body up to the window and pass her to anyone waiting outside. He felt someone take her from him and then reach inside to take his own hand and pull him to safety.

The last conscious thought he had as they laid his body on a stretcher was the fact that he had been inside a burning building, surrounded by smoke and he hadn't sneezed once. Then he passed out completely.

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