by: Kim
It was a sunny day in Hazzard High School where Luke had caught up with several of his friends after his last class in an area hidden out of view of the front of the school. Luke came to meet his friends who were smoking. One of his friends named Roy had asked Luke,” Do you want a cigarette.” Luke replied, “Sure.” Luke had his own pack of cigarettes but he had hid them in the barn so his uncle would never find them and his other pack was in his locker at school. After a few minutes, Luke had finished his cigarette, he said to his friends,” I have to go meet Bo when he is done with his last class. They all answered, “Okay. “When Luke saw his cousin coming out of the building, he yells, “Bo, over here.” Bo turned his head towards the direction that Luke was calling him from. Bo says,” You ready, let’s get on the bus before it leaves without us Luke.
As the bus lets the boys off at their stop which was a short distance from the farm they ran up to the farm house where Uncle Jesse was reading the paper, Uncle Jesse said, “Boys, you have chores to do” The boys answered. “Yes sir.” When the boys were finished with cleaning the stables, Luke told Bo that he would be in a little while. Bo answered, “Okay.” Unknown to both boys is that someone from Luke’s parents past wanted revenge on the Duke family for Jesse helping Luke’s parents put him behind bars fifteen years ago. He is watching Luke take out of his hiding place his cigarettes and lighter from the box that Luke has hidden in the barn and gives the man an idea how to destroy Jesse’s family.
When Luke saw that Bo was inside the farmhouse, he goes to the box in the barn where he has hidden his cigarettes and lighter and walks outside of the barn that faces away the farmhouse to smoke. When Bo was came into the farmhouse, his uncle asks Bo where his cousin was. He replied,” He is in the barn.” His uncle told him that he needed Luke to go into town and get some supplies. When Bo went out to call his cousin, it spooked Luke which forced him to quickly drop his cigarette and stepped on it to smother the cigarette out so it would not burn anything. Luke did not realize that the man was watching both of the boys’ movements.
Luke walked to the entrance of the barn; Bo told him that Jesse needs him to go to town to get supplies. Luke said, “I am on my way, bye.” As Luke was leaving, Cooter drove up in his truck to drop off some stuff for Jesse. He said, ” Hey Luke, where’s your Uncle Jesse at. ” Luke answered,” He is in the farm house and I am on my way to get the supplies he needs to repair the fences in the back 40.” Cooter answered, “Okay, thanks Luke.” and Luke drove away from the farm. As Bo saw Luke leave, he decided to go up into the hayloft and take a short nap because he always loved to sleep in the hayloft. Someone was watching the barn and saw that Bo had climbed up the hayloft. This person also saw Luke smoking behind the barn earlier and knew where Luke had hidden his cigarettes. He thought to himself, “Perfect, I can burn the barn down and have Luke be blamed for it. I need to sneak in there and place the gasoline container and light the straw with Luke’s lighter.” Once he lit the straw and he ran away from the barn before the gasoline container blew. A moment later, a gasoline container exploded near the ladder to the hayloft. The sound of the explosion suddenly woke Bo up and he saw the fire, he knew he had to get out of the barm quickly. He ran towards the ladder, but the fire that was feeding off the gasoline had destroyed the ladder and he realized that the fire destroyed his only way to safety.
When Cooter and Jesse were looking out the window when they heard an explosion and both of them saw that the barn was on fire. They ran outside and suddenly Cooter heard Bo yelling from the hayloft,” COOTER, UNCLE JESSE, HELP ME!” “PLEASE, HELP ME!” All of a sudden, they hear several beams that held the hayloft come crashing to the ground. Cooter tells Jesse to run into the house and call the fire department and the ambulance. I will get Bo out of the barn.” He runs into the barn to rescue Bo. By the time that Jesse comes back outside from calling the fire department, Cooter had Bo lying on the ground. Jesse saw that Cooter had grabbed the bucket that was near the farmhouse, filled it with water and put Bo’s burned hands into it in order to save his hands from getting any worse. He found a rag and soaked it into the water and applied it to Bo’s right cheek and neck that was burned.
When the ambulance arrived and loaded Bo into the back, Jesse asked if he could ride along. One of the paramedics saw the condition of the boy, he said,” Sure, you can ride along and comfort him.” Cooter told Jesse that he would be driving back to town and get a message to Luke about what had happen. After the ambulance left, Cooter started his drive back to town and saw the pickup truck coming towards him and pulled his tow truck to a stop and Luke stopped a minute later. Luke asked, ” What’s up Cooter.” Cooter replied, Luke, something happen at the farm, the barn burned down and the ambulance took your cousin to tri-county hospital. He has burns on his hands and the right side of his cheek and neck. I am on my way to the hospital.” Luke answered, “I am right behind you, Cooter.”
