Private Finished Fire Safety Questions

It was a rather slow Saturday afternoon and Ivana, the fire chief of one of Manta Carlos's largest fire stations, was just washing and polishing the outside of one of the smaller fire engines. The station, itself, had just had two call-outs that morning, and only one of them was even really fire-related. The first had been a small city bus-private vehicle smash-up, where they had been called out to help passengers out of the bus and prevent any accidental damage from leaking fuel tanks. The second call-out had been, unsurprisingly, at least for the station, a small kitchen fire at one of the local restaurants that had had problems in the past with proper kitchen ventilation.

All-in-all it had been a quiet and fairly enjoyable day, and Ivana was in a good mood.


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Ivana looked up inquisitively from the tire rim she was polishing when she heard someone call out her name.

"Oh, hey, Soosei," Ivana said, flashing the kitsune a welcoming smile as she dropped the damp cloth she had been using in a bucket at her feet.

"Sure. What's up? What can I help you with?"Ivana asked as she thanked Soosei for the freshly made chocolate manju. It was one of the station's favorites.

Ivana handed the manju Soosei had made to one of her lieutenants that was coming on shift for the afternoon-evening and asked them to put it in the staffroom.

"Come, let's go and sit over there. Then you can tell me more about why you want to be more involved with the firefighters," Ivana suggested as the two of them went to sit on a bench outside the station.

Soosei's story was certainly full of sad and dramatic twists of fate and Ivana could only sit there for a moment trying to absorb everything that had happened to them.

"I'm sorry to hear that you had to suffer such loss," Ivana started. "What, or more like, how do you think I might be able to help you?" she asked Soosei curiously.

Ivana was actually quite surprised to hear that Soosei wanted to eventually become one of her firefighters.

"I see," Ivana said as she thought about a few reasonable ways for Soosei to overcome her fear of sirens.

"I don't want to traumatize you right away or anything by placing you somewhere you feel trapped," she explained. "And it should probably be a gradual, not forced exposure."

"How about for the first few days .. whenever you hear the sirens, you come to the fire station? That way you are heading towards the sirens and not running away from them?"