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The Disaster Engineers: THE FIRE LINE: Book Two in The Disaster Engineers Series
Paperback
Series: Disaster Engineers, Book 2
General Juvenile FictionScience & Nature
Publisher: Independently Published
Published: Apr 6 2026
Pages: 78
Weight: 0.26
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
The mission continues. In the second installment of the Disaster Engineers series, the threat isn't just coming-it's already at the door.
Twelve-year-old engineering prodigies Leo and Maya find themselves standing on a bone-dry mountain ridge with a shifting wind and a massive wildfire moving uphill at four miles per hour. While most people would see a wall of flames, Leo and Maya see a series of complex thermodynamic equations.
With the clock ticking and the air thick with ash, they must take Extreme Ownership of their survival. Armed only with an engineering notebook, a roll of aluminum flashing, and the immutable laws of physics, the duo must transform a wooden cabin into a fortified Heat Shadow.
In this mission, you will discover:The Physics of Siphons: How to move water uphill using gravity and the Bernoulli Principle.
Thermal Engineering: How to use emissivity to bounce radiant heat away from a structure.
Fluid Dynamics: The secret to building Ember Baffles that stop firebrands in their tracks.
Subsurface Forensics: How to hunt invisible root fires before they destroy a foundation.
From building high-pressure gravity cannons to outsmarting the waxy chemistry of burned soil, the Disaster Engineers prove once again that in a crisis, your greatest asset isn't your gear-it's your brain.
Stop guessing. Start calculating.
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