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Battling the Blaze: Artifacts from the history of firefighting
Artifacts from the history of firefighting
If you’re like most Americans, your brain is cluttered with facts or suppositions about Elon’s kids, Bezos’ divorce, Warren Buffett’s car, and all sorts of other stuff about Rich Guys that is much less important for you to remember than that meeting you forgot about earlier today. Much of it is thinly sourced or exaggerated for effect — search for the “richest person in history,” and you’ll enjoy a lukewarm buffet of AI slop combined with slapdash currency conversion and inflation calculation. It takes a special type of person to sign up for a job that involves risking your life, breathing smoke, and battling deadly flames — especially at a time when the technology that might protect them was so primitive.
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