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To: Justin C who wrote (13875)	10/22/1998 5:51:00 PM
From: Gauguin	Respond to of 71178

Until a year ago, the siren system was still in full use in my town. Three blasts for a fire. They always ring it at noon so they know it's working. It could just about blow you off the street. Even tho they're not using it for the fire signals anymore, or else I'm losing it, they still blow it at noon. It's know as "the noon bell." I wonder why they do that still. Maybe I will call them. I mean it is kind of nice; convenient, to hear it, but they usually stop doing things. The fire chief, he was an old guy Carl, he was the only employee; they had one and a half trucks; and Carl would ride around town in an old station wagon that was the fire chief's. A safety-chartreuse painted beater. On the passenger seat, everywhere he went - I mean everywhere ~ was his doggie, some mutt kind of dog, who would poke his head out the window. Now we have two sooper-white and cherry SUV's, top-end things, four or five new trucks, and a Dalmation. Pooh. Oh: And the fire department moved out of loaned space at the bean cannery to something....upscale.