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The weekend that was originally packed full was just disrupted by a police dispatch.
The new recruits witnessed all the subsequent work that follows a major police deployment.
Just washing and airing out the several clumps of hoses on the truck, tangled like a mess, was a big job.
There was also refilling the hoses, stowing the firefighting tools, charging the two-way radios, inspecting personal protective equipment, refueling and topping up the fire truck, and the post-battle summary meeting...
In just a short day, the fire truck was washed out twice, and it is estimated that its paint would need to be redone once a year.
More than twenty people bustled about for an entire day.
It was far from the previous imagination of just driving out to spray water and put out the fire, then returning so simply.
Firefighting not only requires courage and technique. A series of tasks also require absolute patience.
