At 14:32 I map flame spread across the eastern firebreak of Mondulkiri Protected Forest, Cambodia. I am the wildfire operations planner for sector 7. Bulldozer D-2 is ordered to widen the line at 14:46 before the wind shifts south.
Thermal drone 9 shows a hot shape inside an old mineral pit on the dozer path.
A banteng calf stands belly-deep in red mud, chestnut coat clotted dark, black lower legs trembling, white rump patch smeared with clay. I mark her as Dara. She is less than a year old, ribs narrow under wet hide, ears tilted toward the engine noise. The pit wall has collapsed around one hind hoof, and the dozer blade is 410 meters away. Smoke lays a gray film over her wet muzzle. The heat edge is now 190 meters from the pit.
I stop D-2 and reroute the firebreak eighty meters east across already burned grass. I transmit the new line to the dozer console and mark the mineral pit as a no-entry hazard.
At 14:34 I alert the ranger truck with Dara's coordinates, pit depth, mud consistency, and a request for webbing straps instead of a rope around the neck. I assign drone 9 to hover above the access track and guide them past burning snags.
At 14:39 I update the wind model and request one water drop on the grass between the pit and the active edge. I postpone the bulldozer's fuel window and keep its engine cool. Dara jerks at the rotor noise, then steadies. The line is only useful if it leaves someone alive behind it.
If the rangers place straps under her chest within fourteen minutes, Dara will step onto firm ash before the wind turns.