Fire Brats is a series of children's books about two teenagers, Matt and Dani, who both survive post apocalyptic World War III.
They meet each other in a theater basement, where they live on junk food and suffer a mild form of radiation sickness.
[citation needed] When an earthquake destroys the building over their heads a month later, they dig their way out to find themselves threatened by a gang of escaped convicts.
[1] Matt and Dani cross a huge river on a raft, and are taken in by a kindly old survivalist who teaches them various useful techniques and helps them destroy a pack of bandits.
As nuclear autumn persists, Matt and Dani foil a band of slave-trading bikers and save Denver from flooding caused by a lake which was formed by the bombing.