Beyond the Flames Author:Heather, Smith Thomas A SUMMER OF FIRE; A TIME OF TESTING Just before midnight on July 5, 2000, Heather and Lynne Thomas received the phone call that every parent dreads, the call that tells them one of their own has come to harm. "Andrea has been burned," their neighbor said. "She's being brought to the hospital by ambulance." The Thomases rushed from their ranc... more »h via Idaho's Highway 93 South toward the hospital in Salmon, twelve miles away, not knowing the extent of their daughter's injuries. Inside the emergency room, their daughter lay unconscious, her face covered with an oxygen mask, her legs ravaged by burns. EMTs were too engrossed in lifesaving tasks to detail the extent of Andrea's injuries for her parents, but Lynne and Heather Thomas didn't need medical terminology or statistics to tell them that their daughter's life hung by the thinnest of threads. Moments later, Andrea was transferred to the waiting ambulance and whisked off to meet the life-fight helicopter and transport to the Burn Trauma ICU at University Hospital in Salt Lake City as her family looked on, unaware they were beginning a journey which would leave them, their family, friends and community forever changed.« less