Chasing fire for hire

This time in 2012 i was roaming the countryside reading electric meters for Florida Power and Light. It was a great job. I had thirty routes that went all over the countryside surrounding Lake City. Some routes I drove, some I walked, some a combination. One such route I really enjoyed took me out on Gum Swamp Road and into the Osceola National Forest to read a cell phone tower. Along the way I read all the dwellings along Gum Swamp.
This afternoon, after everyone had left for the week-end at Disney, I was riding over to get the mail and check on my sisters in town when I saw that the Osceola was being controlled burned. So instead of taking the left on 100 I went straight and into the forest via the Still Road and onto Gum Swamp. I wound up at Ocean Pond where I went out on the dock, the cold wind off the lake quite shivery. I then went into Olustee looking for the dwelling of Geech Brown, the old black man I photographed for the Tallahassee Democrat in the 80's. Then, Geech, an Ogeechee black from Savannah, Georgia and a pulpwood worker, claimed to be the oldest living active worker in Florida, in his 80's then. I drove all around and through the black neighborhoods and saw nothing that looked like his shanty. I am sure it has been torn down long ago.
Only one black person was out with a brown paper bag bottle, sitting next to a fire, but I did not stop and ask. He or she, I could not tell for the bundle, looked too young to know of Geech.
And so I came on back and continued on into town to do what I meant to do several hours earlier.
Such was the afternoon chasing fire, of which I actually never found, only the smoke all about.