Inside One of the Country’s Busiest Fire Stations That Serves the City of Los Angeles

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The firefighters of Los Angeles City Fire Station 9 are used to distractions. Give or take every fifteen minutes, the robotic chatter of a printer typing up the details of the latest emergency call or the roar of a fire engine as it leaves the building cuts through whatever train of thought might have been humming along the brain. “There goes another one,” comments Captain Chris Sebourn, as another siren wails its way through the streets outside the fire station.

 

Station 9 is one of the nation’s busiest stations — if not the busiest. According to the most recent National Run Survey, the station answered 27,338 calls in 2015. For comparison, in 2006, the average number of calls in the nation was just 6,654. That same year, Fire Station 9 responded to more than 22,000 calls.

 

 

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