一个morning conversation at the firehouse goes something like this:
While en route to the call, the dispatcher advises you that the hotel staff is currently evacuating the hotel guests. Whether you’ve just started your tour or you’re a volunteer on duty at the station, what are you thinking about while you’re preparing the rigs? A chemical release? Weapons of mass destruction (WMDs)? A radiation dispersal device? Ventilation system dust burning on the heating coil (again)?
一个lthough this story seems fictional, it is not. On a very cold post-Thanksgiving Day in 2008, the Mechanicstown (NY) Volunteer Fire District was dispatched to an incident with approximately 20 people complaining of breathing difficulties.
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