Sanjay — 9:00 PM
He finished the last report at nine PM. He always worked late after major incidents — the documentation had to be done while it was current, and the debrief from Prem Lal had taken two hours, and the state authority update call had taken another hour. The helicopter pilots had filed their own reports. The hospital had filed incident reports for each patient. The district transport coordinator had filed a report that contained both accurate information and a degree of self-protective inaccuracy that Sanjay had noted and flagged in his covering memo without naming the coordinator directly, because naming him directly would produce a defensive response that would slow the corrective action, and the corrective action — which was that all district school buses needed to receive the flash flood alert before departure, not after — was more important than assigning blame.
He was tired. This was standard. He was always tired after major incidents. The tiredness was a different kind from the ordinary tiredness of long days — it was the tiredness of a system that had been running at high capacity for twelve hours and now needed to reset.
