
Escape Pod 821: Payday Weather
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Safe Zone, Secto or Cow Fire Prevention?
Shane Carrey worked contract fire suppression for two years in Tacoma, Washington. The city had been hit hard by typhoon roke and filed for bankruptcy three weeks after the storm made landfall. He says he was nervous as hell running through an obstacle course on a high school sports field before easter. After passing with 62 seconds to spare his solo cheering section included a 60-year-old woman who looked like she'd spent more than 40 years out in the sun.
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