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District of Columbia Fire Department employment advantages
The District of Columbia Fire Department offers permanency, free medical care, free street car rides in uniform, full pay when sick, a two shift system, twenty days furlough yearly, and pension provisions for disabled firefighters and for widows and children if killed or dying in service. Firefighters are praised as minute men protecting Greater Washington, symbolizing heroism to citizens and children alike.
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