There are a lot of old people. We end up responding to a lot of medical calls. Lots of things factor in. For example, there's poor fire awareness. They don't even have transportation.
Folks sometimes resort to portable space heaters.
It leads to a lot of alarms. Not all have happy endings. Haunting images A few years ago, Grant and longtime partner, Robert Tarkington, responded to a fire they wish they could forget. In desperation one winter a few years ago, a man took refuge upstairs in an abandoned two-story house with two young children and a baby. The man had left to get food, leaving the children alone.