Waiter, I ordered this steak cooked rare
As if we didn't need another anecdote about the fire station's importance to the Point. Here comes Mike Nova, the Rosamaria's Cafe owner. He had just sat through today's business associaton meeting where he listened to the uproar over the station's expected closing.
Outside Hotel Mac, a Hidden City Cafe cook told him about a kitchen fire a few minutes before. The staff had emptied their extinguisher trying to put it out, then ran to the fire house for help. A couple of firemen ran over and put the fire out with their much bigger extinguisher.
Imagine if Hidden City had to wait 12 minutes--the expected response time after the station closes. How much of the city's tax base would have been lost in the resulting conflagration and then later as the Point dies of the wound?
What can you do? I don't know yet.