Flickering embers dance through the air as the telltale glow of a massive blaze illuminates part of the city, here in its epicentre it is nigh impossible to tell night from day however! Originating at the base of a five-story residential appartment, flames are rapidly spreading upwards, licking along the eastern wall of the residential structure! On that side the fire had already spread to the roof, while much of the western side remains un-charred... for now.

The local fire department are already on-scene, however unprepared for a blaze of this magnitude! The most these brave mutants can do is slow down the spread of the life-gobbling inferno, and with the city's infrastructure anything but hospitable in its current state to permit them easy access to water, it was a miracle they were capable to even do so much!

The sounds of terrified screams is audible from within the structure, couples, entire families perhaps trapped within the crumbling building as smoke billows out the open windows! They didn't have much time left... Among those in the rescue effort was a small-ish fennec fox, his part in this being something he did well. Screaming at the panicked locals with a loud and commanding tone, trying to keep the terrified masses from scattering, hoping to organize them and recruit as many of them into the firefighting effort as possible.

Cinder is heading to Dicks and Durgs to oversee some of the construction when sie sees the blaze, Sie has nothing on hir to help but sie starts running over anyway! Sie sees, or rather hears Magnus and runs over to him, "Anything I can do to help?"

Zophah is aproaching the blaze, as is all fearless heroes do. She had grabbed the only two fire extinguishers she had already built and flew off with phoenix wings, her shadow dragon daughter Dios flying behind her and messaging Arris to meeet her there. When she arrived, She notices Magnus alredy trying to take care of the inferno. "How many in the building do you think there are, which way is the fire spreading, and about how much time do we have before the structure collapses?" She yells over the cataphony, drawing out her totemic bear to hopefully help with any heavy loads.

Arris rushes in shortly after Zophah does, lugging around a ten-pound fire extinguisher just behind her, careful not to let the mildly heavy tank of pressurized gas bump the pavement too hard and potentially explode right into her hands. "Sweet Mary mother of Joseph, the blaze is as bad as you said." Her gaze sweeps left and right as the heat bears down on her from all sides, eyes eventually focusing on Magnus before rushing over to him. "Oi, Mag! You got a plan for this fire?!"

Quinnthas hears the commotion and comes jogging around the corner , his eyes widen at the scene. "woah, haven't seen a fire this bad in awhile!" after noticing the shouting fox and people gathering around him he decides to go up and see waht he can do to help. "hello, quinnthas, RSX human resources, there anything I can do to help?" he says calmly as he watches teh chaos around him.

The fennec turns to face the fox and gator. "Jeeze, of all the people to show up! Glad you two are among them." He then spots Cinder and another lad he'd not yet met, his eyes going wide as he speaks, "What are..." but is promptly interrupted as the loud crackling and crashing from the structure announces that it had started to collapse from the thermal shock, the topmost floor having caved in somewhere along the roof. "We don't have time! I don't know how many are in there! What little I could do is help the fire department over there!" his finger snaps towards a group of four five brave souls, two pairs of two each firmly grasping a nozzle gushing water in an attempt to douse the flames, their efforts only enough that they merely slow its spreading. "Why are you asking me?! I don't know what to do! Go talk to the chief!" his hand then points towards a small and visibly stressed rat girl in a firefighter's uniform and distinctly brighter helm on her head, leaned over a piece of rubble she was using as an improvised desk. "Quit gabbing and get going!" Magnus then turns back around and runs off after the scattering crowd to try and organize things as best he can.

Cinder nods and runs over to the fire chief, offering hir help

"There are people in there!?" Arris promptly disregards Magnus' instructions to go talk up the chief, instead running towards the closest building to her that was still aflame, levelling her extinguisher's nozzle at it... then double-checks the intuitive picture diagrams on the side to make sure she was using it correctly. After a hasty check, she pulls the handle on the pressurized chemical container and looses its contents in the direction of the fire.

Zophah sees the stress Magnus is having and surveys the situation herself. Scouting nanomagic gave her an edge in finding the closest people in need of rescue, and she directs her daughter and her totem to help evacuate anyone in the western side of the building. "Anyone capable of flight and resistance to heat, go to the higher floors and lead them out to the fire escapes! If you find anyone unconsious from smoke, get the aid of any other rescuees to drag them out! Those with fire extinguishers focus on stopping it from spreading to the west to give everyone a chance of getting out! If anyone is injured, focus on getting them mobile first, paramedics and nanites will do the rest! NOW MOVE!" She then takes flight and pulls out a fire extingisher, diving into an open window of the upper floors.

Quinnthas as he surveys the situation his ears and glowing tentacles twitch, with a frown he gets ready to run in when Zophah starts sending people to the rescue. "I think there are 10 people on the first couple of floors. since you have rescues in hand guess I'll focus on something else." he heads over to the rat girl at the makeshift desk. "anything you need help with here?"

Sometimes, when Zephyr needed him to go somewhere and do a given thing, it was easiest to just fly himself. There was always Mike and the chopper, of course, but sometimes Acetyl had to go somewhere off the usual beaten paths, and he didn't like asking for favors - after all, he had two perfectly good wings of his own. And as a storm dragon, he sometimes craved the sky, felt a need to stretch his wings and soar for its own sake. He was no bird and couldn't soar way up in the clouds, of course, but it still felt good to be up there, muscles working smoothly to power him forward through the smoke-stained air. Hey... wait a second. Smoke? Acetyl blinked, refocusing his thoughts from his mission onto his surroundings. The air was clear when he left Xanadu. But now the stench of a building fire punched into his nostrils, and the sky was no longer clean and clear. An ugly blotch of dark smoke was spreading in the air ahead of him, with a clear point of origin. Something was definitely on fire. Something big. Right there in Fairhaven. Acetyl could be a detached sort, but the sight of that plume of smoke sent a spike of anxiety through his gut. Immediately, he got on comms and reported the fire. With permission to abort his current mission granted by his boss, Acetyl wheeled in the sky, performing a sharp wingover that made his head spin but allowed him to change direction almost on a wingtip. As quickly as he could, he flew toward the source of the smoke. On arrival, he was horrified to see a five-story building in flames. People were already there, scurrying about as best they could, but it was clear that more help was needed. So he folded his wings back and swooped down, alighting near the firefighters with their hoses. "Hey, what can I do?" He called out, looking around to see who was in charge of the operation.

Arris' actions prove fruitful as two more dazed and panicked mutants run out of the building, a doberman girl and a shy gecko male specifically! They seem on the verge of collapse, and in fact do so just short of the police chief. "The rat snaps her gaze towards Cinder and Quinn, then at the injured. "Help me over here then." she answers with a hasty squeak as her nimble hands start to unscrew the lid of a large flask. She helps with washing the soot and smoke from the rescued's faces and offers them each a drink. Zophah meanwhile crashes right into a couple of female huskies' charred appartment den, where the two survivors were a hot minute away from fainting from all the smoke they'd inhaled. They needed help, pronto!

As the events are underway, another loud crashing sound shakes the already quaking air, another room had collapsed, a loud reminder that every single second was the difference between life and death. Several figures start to hook their legs over the rims of various windows on the second and third floors of the building. PEOPLE WERE TRYING TO JUMP DOWN! "CHIEF!" one of the firefighters screams out. Their small team was helpless... The rat girl turns towards Quinn and Cinder, then Acetyl once he offers his assistance too. "If you two want to help, there are people trying to jump. Catch them, fly there and ease them down, I don't care! We don't have the manpower for this!" The desperation in her voice was as vivid as the ever-growing threat of a mass catastrophe...

Cinder quickly scans the upper floors of the building for people who are going to jump and quickly launches hirself into the air, picking people up and gliding them down safely!

Zophah needed to act fast. Fortunately she was one of those mutants that didn't need to breathe, but there were two unconsious huskies that needed her help. Zophah isn't strong, but her adrenaline was pumping and there are people to save. So she dragged the two to the window and tied them to herself with cord from her bag. And with a hop from the windowsill She tried her best to glide down on her wings like a parachute, landing rough but at least with both huskies safe. "These two have smoke inhalation." She exclams to those coming to help her. "I'm going back in." With the cord back with her she flies bac up to the 4th floor, praying that more of the building doesn't colapse before she rescues more.

The intense heat within the building hits Arris like she had ran into a brick wall, but she presses on, pushing through it to spray the chemical mist over the flames to douse them. She manages to clear out the foyer of the building of flames and let two mutants out through the passage she has made before being forced to retreat right after them herself. Once outside, she takes a moment to fill her lungs full of the cleaner air, analyzing the situation around her before making her next move.

Her attention is quickly brought up to the people attempting to jump out of the windows, and -- after some quick thinking -- she uses her tentacle nanomagic to hastily 'weave' a makeshift life net, turning her extra appendages into the elastic material of the Living Lingirie form and securing them all around the fender of a nearby car just as the mutants drop onto her. "Take care of the others! I can't handle all of the ones jumping out!"

Quinnthas gives a quick solute to the captain. "yes ma'am" then downs 5 vials as he runs to place himself under the jumpers. turning himself into a Psilocybe Dragon. with his form solidified he stretches his wings to their fullest and braces himself. "I'll catch you! you'll be safe!"

The storm dragon doesn't wait to be told twice. Taking no more time than required to snap out a crisp 'Yes'm!', the flighted mutant snapped his wings out and kicked off again, arrowing for the people in the windows. He thought about shifting to a larger form, but the situation was urgent - it seemed like a wiser use of his time to just get up there and snatch whoever he could, especially given that there were others trying to rescue the potential jumpers (and thank the Horned Serpent for that - Acetyl was only five feet four inches tall, and he knew he couldn't move fast enough to save everyone alone. The heat from the flames was terrific even flying along the outside of the building. His natural temperature resistance took the edge off, but the dragonman decided it made sense to activate cryo nanomagic. He might end up having to go inside. So even as he made for the nearest possible jumper, he concentrated, flicking the nanomagic on to cool the air around him. Out here, it was strong enough that frost might form, but he knew all too well that, if he had to go inside, it would only be able to reduce the heat... and it wouldn't last long, either. Unable to hover with the precision of some flighted mutants, Acetyl settles for a snatch-and-go, grabbing at the first person he can as he shoots by. The extra weight is difficult to maintain, but he's able to glide to the ground without anyone's bones being broken... he hopes.