FIREFIGHTERS
No other professional risks death more often, more deliberately, and more routinely than a fire fighter. Manhattan's 181st Street station is one of the busiest firehouses in America. New York City calls the fire department some 400,000 times a year, more than a thousand times a day. Sometimes it's a major disaster, sometimes a false alarm. More often, it's something in between, a minor catastrophe. Every call starts out the same way. Until they arrive on the scene, fire fighters can never be sure exactly what awaits them.
