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Originally Posted by Tealeaf

I suppose there was no justification for a fire station in Ossy in the first place; surely it would have been far better for all of us to let the entire town just burn down.

Right there was no justification for Ossy to have a fire station many years before it was eventually closed, just as Rishton & Clayton's fire stations were closed in the late 1940's.
All the major employers at one time had a fire brigade, Lang Bridges & Howard & Bulloughs etc.
Retlaw.