In Twin Cities, they're 'not just firefighters anymore'

Star Tribune: Most of the time when a fire truck rumbles out of a ­Minneapolis fire station, it’s not going to a fire.

Only 4 percent of Minneapolis Fire Department’s 36,985 runs in 2012 involved running a water line to fight a fire in a house, commercial building, car, dumpster or a field. The rest of the time, firefighters were racing to a heart attack or some other medical emergency, a rescue, a hazardous condition or a false alarm.

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