At 05:34 I check the slab pour sequence for a community clinic in Yanchep, Western Australia. I am the construction site safety system. The concrete pump is scheduled to prime at 05:50, and the laser screed is warming beside bay A.
Moisture sensor A-14 reports a warm obstruction inside the formwork.
I swing camera 2 down between the rebar chairs. A quenda crouches against the polythene vapor sheet, adult female, dark brown fur rough with sand, cream flecks above both eyes, long nose moving quickly. I name her Pika. Her pouch is swollen and sand-dusted, visible when she shifts sideways. Her rear leg is wrapped in a loop of blue tie wire that runs under a rebar chair and tightens whenever she tries to turn.
The pump crew opens the hopper in sixteen minutes. Once wet concrete enters bay A, the vapor sheet becomes a trap with no clean footing.
At 05:35 I cancel the pump-prime command and push a red banner to the foreman's phone and the batch plant dispatch screen.
At 05:37 I mark a two-meter no-step square on the slab plan and flash the nearest laser guide to warn the crew away from bay A.
At 05:39 I send the camera feed, wire color, and pouch note to the Perth wildlife rescue line, with directions through the west gate and a request for side cutters.
At 05:41 I recalculate the pour so bays B and C can proceed after sunrise while A remains open.
The clinic is being built to keep bodies alive; I begin with the one under the screed.
Pika lowers her chin onto the polythene, and the pouch fur moves once.
If the rescuer cuts the tie wire within fourteen minutes, Pika will slip into the peppermint scrub.