First, I couldn't be more proud of you in your pride of not needing mutual aid! YAY!! Finally we don't have to have all those fire engines driving crazy all over the place. Naturally, that reminds me of a story--a true story. When I was a young kid, I was hanging around our area firehouse the morning after a major fire that essentially burned an entire block down—it was the fire of the decade. As I was hanging out, helping clean, etc., I heard the firefighters exclaim their pride in how well things went the night before. While Iwas maybe 12 years old at the time, one comment really stuck in my head when one firefighter high-fived the other after stating: "Yeah, and we fought that fire without having to call that other fire company. We did it ourselves!!"
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