Word: firebox
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bronx, fire is not the only problem a fireman faces. Because the fire truck usually gets there faster than the squad car, ghetto people commonly rush to a firebox to get help when somebody has been stabbed, shot, raped, run over or overdosed. Fireman Smith spends much time caring for the victims. He doesn't complain about these extra social services; he grew up in a slum himself, and in helping poor people he feels he is helping his own kind. What stuns him, what drives him almost to despair, is that in return for his help almost...