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...rebuilding, to protect against the price gouging that often occurs after disasters. And, notes Mogil, anyone with a home worth more than $500,000 should look at a guaranteed-replacement-cost policy that pays to rebuild no matter how high costs go. Only a few companies--including Chubb, Fireman's Fund and AIG--offer such policies, but not in all states...
...some of the letters to old friends or to strangers inquiring about his childhood, I discovered things I didn't know about him. "Fire engines were horse-drawn then," he wrote about his early years, "and the sight of them made me decide I wanted to be a fireman." I also didn't know how, on a Saturday night in Tampico, Ill., a 9-year-old Dutch Reagan, along with a friend, found a shotgun belonging to the boy's father and blew a hole in the family's ceiling. We pore over our parents' childhoods when we are past...
Capt. Stanton, the department’s third-highest ranking office, said he was proud his son was following in the family tradition: His father had been a Cambridge police officer, and his grandfather was a Cambridge fireman...
...Last weekend, in a tranquil suburb 35 miles from Washington DC, a volunteer fireman's car was burgled, and his badge, helmet and radio were stolen. A couple of years ago, says Master Detective Dennis Mangan of the Prince William County, Va. Police, "we wouldn't have thought anything about it. Now we look at things differently. We have a detective assigned to the Joint Terrorism Task Force, and anything that's remotely suspicious, we send them the report." Two days earlier, a Fairfax County policeman's car, containing his badge and jacket, had been stolen in Prince William County...
Weller gravitated to literature and the stage before becoming a journalist. During his undergraduate years, he wrote a Hasty Pudding Theatricals show entitled Fireman Save My Child...