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(wind blowing)

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In a small town,
we know everybody,

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and everybody knows everybody.

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And the last three calls that
this outfit has been on,

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it has not been real good.

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(siren)

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(music)

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We look after the
town of Eastend,

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which is 600 people, but we also
look after one RM completely,

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half of another one, and
so we, we have a big,

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big area in this corner of the
Province, a very big area.

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(siren)

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We\'re on call
365 days of the year 7/24.

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When that alarm goes off, a lot
of peoples\' adrenaline goes

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straight through the roof.

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There is nothing
in the world

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quite like volunteer
firefighting.

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So, I\'ve been on
the fire department

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for about 2 1/2 years now.

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I joined because I figured it
would be a good way

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to help the community.

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Every call is different, so
you\'re never ever gonna

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see the same call.

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You\'re always, your
brain is always going.

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I leave my farm and my shop, and
these people all leave their

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business, when that call comes
we walk away from our lives to

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go help somebody else.

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Who the hell runs into a burning
building or who the hell goes to

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these things in
their right mind?

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But somebody\'s got to do it.

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Holy, no way to start a day.

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(music)

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It\'s a tough racket.

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It\'s, it\'s not for the faint
of heart by any stretch of the

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imagination, \'cause
it, it can be brutal.

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(siren)

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Whoa, yeah, yeah.

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Your batteries are
out past the truck.

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(motor running)

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Any call with a death involved,

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that is a bad call when a life
is lost, and that, that, to me,

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is one of the toughest
things to deal with,

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because you know when you
go that there\'s always a

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possibility that
that\'s what it is

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and it\'s always in the
back of your mind.

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It\'s the getting on
scene and not knowing what

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you\'re gonna find dead or
alive, but you\'ll do your job.

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That\'s one big
problem for this area,

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\'cause if your accident\'s
half an hour away,

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well what are we gonna
go find in half an hour?

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When we do go to those
bad accidents when there\'s,

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you know, children involved like
we had a while ago, you know,

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you get home at the end of the
night and you realize that

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that could have been my kids.

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Whatever
we find on scene,

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we\'re gonna make a difference.

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We\'re gonna help them.

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Hopefully, possibly
save somebody\'s life.

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And if it is too late, we do
what has to be done and secure

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the scene and do what
we can for the family.

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I\'m always looking at my crew
and making sure that they are

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prepared and ready for
what could be ugly,

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and I mean really ugly.

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As far as this stressing
out and post traumatic stress,

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I am one of them that is
having trouble and it\'s because

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of the years that I\'ve
been involved in it.

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And if you talk to people like
I have, counsellors, I have to,

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as my counsellors are telling
me, to get away from this,

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or it\'s gonna eat me up.

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- Have you got a minute?
- Yeah.

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-- Okay, we\'re going.
- Okay.

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But I\'m not ready to give
it up yet, I\'m really not.

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I\'m looking at a new
fire hall down here.

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I\'m looking at a new truck.

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I\'m not ready to give \'er up.

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I\'m too goddamn ornery.

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(laughs)

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Eastend fire, just
leaving scene.

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Eastend reading the
marked time is 8:23.

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(wind blowing)

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