We’ve had quite the week on the West Coast, what with most of it burning, so naturally our attention turned to fixing the problem.

Well, maybe not fixing, but certainly to those people and machines used ot make the problem go away. How did the first organized fire fighters come to be? Who thought it was a good idea and why? And more importantly, what does insurance have to do with it all? Listen in and find out on this late episode of GM Word of the Week.

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