Eventually, though, with a lot of hard work and some help from a local TV station that rallied park users to her cause, the public agency agreed to a one-year pilot of her idea.

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It wants to recruit people who live and work within a five minute radius of their local fire station.

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Back then, before the above 3 became popular or available, there were only a few channels on TV, a handful of newspapers to read, some mega portals, and the local radio station to listen to on the way to work.

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