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There’s a reason it keeps attracting applicants. The 6.25-square-mile area that CFD serves is one of the most densely populated in Massachusetts. It includes hundreds of laboratories with potentially toxic substances. And then there’s the T, which fire officials fear could attract terrorists...
...CFD is one of only 32 “Class 1” fire houses in the country—a recognition of the CFD’s effectiveness from the Insurance Services Office, a risk information clearinghouse...
...What that means is that the boys have all the toys,” Bowden says. CFD firefighters get sent to pricey training programs in far-flung places like Alabama and Las Vegas, and they have access to water rescue equipment and other gadgets that firefighters at other fire departments can only dream...
...could be a triathlete and, after five minutes in a fire, you could be exhausted,” Brogan says. CFD firefighters, however, “are knocking each other down to get inside the [burning] building...
Brogan, 46, a member of the old guard at CFD, is the descendant of a family with a rich pedigree in firefighting: the Friels. As a boy in North Cambridge, he played at the CFD station, the same one where his grandfather had made the Friel name famous by creating the country’s second rescue team. In the office that he shares with a set of three other rotating lieutenants, Brogan proudly shows a copy of a photo of his grandfather with the pioneering horse-drawn rescue team...