I received the following e-mail from Assistant Fire Chief Ed Murphy of the Roberts Park Fire Protection District in Justice, Illinois, who advised me of the following:
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I recently heard the following dispatch; the names have been changed to protect the guilty: "Attention Department 3: Mutual aid re-quests, from department 53-58, one RIT [rapid intervention team] to the scene of a structure fire, Main Street, USA."
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