Always eager to serve, the town’s volunteer fire brigade did manage to get caught in the hot seat from time to time
A fire is serious business, but for this teenager and his friend in the late 1950s, a fire in the town of Paris—the self-proclaimed prettiest town in Ontario— was sometimes also a source of great amusement. When a fire was reported, a siren blared its call to the volunteer fire brigade to rush to the downtown station. Three particularly memorable occasions illustrate why my friend and I made sure we were on the scene whenever the siren went off.
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