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They did at one point set houses on fire though. I listened to a podcast on the history of firemen in the US. Mad stuff. Can't remember the name of the podcast though.
There's a nice scene in Gangs of New York, where rival Fire teams would fight it out whilst robbing the houses they were "saving"
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When you get paid to stop something bad that is happening, prevention is not in your best interest.
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Like I know firefighter put out fires, but in the US at least departments are often instrumental in making sure city streets are as unsafe as possible so they can drive their enormous trucks down them.
They will even do shit like narc out renters who have too many roommates in single family neighborhoods to city authorities, like they're not cops but some of them try really hard.
Like an order of magnitude more people die in car crashes than house fires, and more often than not fire departments are just responding to some dumbass crashing their car.
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Is that from Fahrenheit 451 by chance?
That was my first thought