Word: alarming
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fire, or when the Rescue Co. is at a medical emergency, the men are completely involved in their work. It is nothing like an office or factory job where only half of one's faculties are engaged. It is a job over which the men can get excited. Every alarm represents a potential challenge, a chance to learn something new. There is seldom any boredom or complacency, especially since the firehouse next to Mem Hall is one of the busiest in the city...
...fire, the company's job is to remove people from danger, provide medical attention, and then assist the other companies in fighting the fire. Most of the crew's time, however, is not taken up by fires but by stills (when people call Fire Alarm instead of pulling a fire box in the street), which usually involve some sort of medical emergency. Thus the Rescue company is far busier than any other company in the city, averaging close to 5000 runs a year...
...lieutenant said that action has a way of coming all at once. Fires, especially, tend to come in bunches. One group in a company seems to get all the fires--it will get a three-alarm, have all the fires for a few weeks and then get another three-alarm to end the cycle. He said that it probably was not statistically true but it always seemed to happen that...
When they finally got back to the firehouse, the guys immediately went to sleep in the big dormitory on the second floor. They say that they can never sleep as well at the firehouse as they can at home. Part of you is always awake, waiting, listening for the alarm...
Around 6 a.m. the aerial tower unit went out on a false alarm, but for the Rescue Co. the city was peaceful the rest of the night...