{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"","title":"Smoke in the Cut: Trapped Beneath a Desert Fire","description":"In late April of nineteen eighty three, a section hand named Earl Pruitt drives out to a stretch of high desert rail line thirty miles east of Tucson to burn off trackside brush, a job he has done dozens of times before. But when the wind shifts in the early afternoon, his own controlled burn overtakes him, cutting off any retreat along the narrow rock walled rail cut. Earl has one culvert, four feet wide and eighteen feet long, between him and the open fire. With most of his water gone and the smoke still thick, he presses a wet burlap rag to his face and crawls inside. His coworker is more than a mile away and the pipe is already beginning to hold heat.\r\n\r\nThis episode was created with artificial intelligence: AI-assisted script and AI-generated (synthetic) voice.","author_name":"Creators Obomedia"}