text: Are you referring to nap time, or the time spent racing around trying to look busy at traffic accident scenes, medical emergencies, cats-stuck-in-trees, civic parades or some other function festooned with a highly visible cavalcade of duplication and redundancy involving unionized public sector emergency response employees?
  
  Certainly, ever since coal and wood furnaces and fireplaces and candles were replaced by appliances using gas, oil and electricity, actual fires have become scarce as hens' teeth.  Imagine if buggy whip makers had been 'served' by the IAFF.