Fire on Belmont

We knew it was a nasty fire
Firefighters will refer to some fires as good fires while worrying that outsiders might think they are glad a building burned, when of course they arent.
What they are is grateful that, after days and weeks of waiting, when confronted by the need to do what they are trained to do, they did their duty.
A firefighter invited me to lunch at his station house. We got to talking about a fire they fought last month. Firefighters are a self-effacing bunch. Any other firefighter would have done exactly the same thing, said one, echoing a common team-effort sentiment. They were just doing their jobs, they said, but I convinced them that people are interested in those jobs, in how to fight a good fire.
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