Fire buff

A fire buff is a person with considerable interest (a fan) in fire fighting and emergency services, while not being an active member of these services. Fire buffs may collect or promote information about the local emergency services, raise money for them, or attend emergencies as bystanders. In the latter case, a fire buff may be considered a nuisance or even a danger to operations by active service members.[1] Many fire buffs are organized in associations, a small number of which are integrated into auxiliary services for their local fire stations.[2][3] The term 'fire buff' is said to go back to the beginning of the 20th century, when early fire buffs attended emergencies during winter time wearing fur coats, thus coming to be called "buffalos".[1]

Notable buffs
gollark: ... what?
gollark: Definitely. Not that those are contradictory.
gollark: It's probably best to just write it without much time spent trying to eke out maximum performance.
gollark: My site runs on an old tower server and is at 1% CPU almost all the time. The biggest CPU load is just the monitoring software gathering a few hundred metrics for graphs.
gollark: That would take much more work, and individual computers are very fast.

References
  1. What is a fire buff? - excerpt from Robert W. Masters: "Pictorial History of Firefighting", 1967
  2. "Sacramento Fire Buff Club Rehab Service". Archived from the original on 2014-05-14. Retrieved 2014-05-14.
  3. Some question role of fire buff, The Boston Globe, June 11, 2005
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