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...second floor of the headquarters of the Cambridge Fire Department (CFD), located just south of Memorial Hall, the 30-something sits at a hallway desk, typing. Her more seasoned colleagues, half-dressed in sleep shorts and the firefighter??€™s uniform, pass behind her chair and mutter gruff greetings...
...this chair in February, after beating out thousands of firefighter hopefuls from around the country in a selective process that can stretch more than a decade. It all starts with a civil service exam, the firefighter??€™s version of the SAT. Hopefuls take the test every other year by the thousands, many of them with lifelong dreams...
...ground floor of the station, the red-and-white trucks gleam and pump diesel fumes into yellow hoses. The department has come a long way since the days of horse-drawn rescue trucks, but up a back set of stairs to the firefighter??€™s quarters, it often seems that little has changed. Green metal lockers fill one room, and beyond it scraggly mattresses rest on bed frames that Brogan, the lieutenant, jokes are remnants of World...
...entirely on location in Baltimore for three months, the most elaborate scenes focus on both house and commercial fires. Firemen and pyrotechnic technicians were on hand to advise on the accuracy of scenarios and contain the large, visceral blazes, which highlighted concerns about the heavy risks that define a firefighter??€™s life...
Last week, Davis-Mullen won the endorsement of the rank-and-file of the powerful Boston firefighter??€™s union...