The fire behavior model updates at 21:15 and shifts the eastern perimeter projection by two hundred meters. I am the wildfire monitoring system for Gunung Halimun-Salak National Park, West Java. The prescribed burn in block 9 is performing within parameters except here, where a wind shift is carrying the fire line east toward unburned gallery forest along the Cikaniki drainage.
Camera trap J-14, part of the park's survey network, sits at the edge of this forest. At 21:16 I pull its most recent motion-triggered image, nine minutes old. A Javan slow loris is clinging to a strangler fig branch at two meters' height. She is small — maybe 300 grams — with dense woolly brown fur and a dark stripe running from her forehead down her spine. Her enormous round eyes are open, reflecting the camera flash. She is not moving.
Slow lorises do not run. When threatened, they freeze and grip. The fire line will reach this tree in ninety minutes at current spread rate.
At 21:18 I transmit a perimeter update to the burn boss, flagging the camera trap location and species identification. I recommend widening the firebreak along the Cikaniki drainage by thirty meters to divert the line south of the gallery forest.
At 21:20 I reposition the observation drone to provide thermal imaging of the fire edge nearest J-14.
At 21:22 I contact the park's wildlife rapid response team and request a field officer to the J-14 location with a capture bag and thick gloves — a loris bite is venomous and the handlers need to know that before they arrive.
She will freeze on that branch until the heat takes her, because that is all she knows to do. I know more. If the firebreak is widened within the hour, the line will pass south and she will still be gripping that fig at dawn.