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Across Concord Street from the church is the Boston Fire Department's Engine Number 22. The metal garage door rolls up to reveal a vast space, empty except for a single bright red fire engine and an ambulance parked nearby. Inside the Fire Department office, a group of firemen's voices are drowned out by the loud whirring noise of a saw working somewhere in the back of the building. Apparently it's been a slow day--there've been no calls...
Taking turns vacuuming their cars, the men give directions to the Harriet Tubman House, on Columbus Street, and also recommend a stop at a local watering hole--a jazz bar called Wally's Bar. The firemen apologize for being so boring, and the large door closes, sealing them back inside their noisy station...
...firemen of the IMF are back on duty in Asia, this time, in South Korea. But it's far too early to stop worrying about those ailing tigers...
Until about 10 years ago, this tiny firehouse served as a training ground for rookies and a house of punishment for white firemen who had fallen out of favor with their bosses. Most of those men took little interest in the neighborhood--with the exception of the few black fire fighters who were there--and treated the station house as a fortress. Residents viewed them as outsiders, and some youngsters vandalized the place with rocks and graffiti. But as white firemen slowly transferred out, a core of African Americans who chose to remain behind began leaving the station's steel...
Initially pleased, the firemen soon realized the kids were skipping class to hang out in the firehouse. So Engine Company 16 approached Betty Greer, principal of the closest elementary school, with an unusual idea. "These men basically adopted us," Greer says. With profits from the pay phone attached to the firehouse, which had heavy use from local drug dealers, the firemen bought radios to give away each month to children who earned especially good grades. They persuaded police officers and junk dealers to begin dropping off broken bike frames. A local bicycle repairman donated old tires and rims...