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From a link at Strong Signals.

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/25/nyregion/25BUFF.html

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With Fire in Their Eyes Buffs Find Passion in Chasing Sirens
By ROBERT F. WORTH

By day, Ira Rubin takes care of his ailing mother and works as a
production manager at a matzo factory in Jersey City.

At night, he flicks on the police scanner and enters a lurid world of
fires and disasters. 

If he hears the dispatchers call in a serious fire, he will often jump
into his Mercury Marquis and race to the scene to watch. If not, he may
simply monitor the nightly mayhem by two-way radio from the renovated
19th-century firehouse where he helps run a canteen service for
firefighters. On weekends, he often puts on a gray kilt and Glengarry hat
to play the bagpipes at fire and police department events.

In short, Mr. Rubin belongs to that quietly eccentric band of people
known as fire buffs. Their ranks include lawyers, salesmen, doctors,
locksmiths, even an heiress or two. All of them seem to share a single
experience: at an early age, they heard a siren and saw a bright red fire
engine bolt past. They have been chasing fires ever since.
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