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Responses to emergencies by modern fire departments are very well choreographed, but it wasn't always so. In 1963, while the Matlock residence of New Hyde Park, NY was burning to the ground, the two fire departments which responded could not put out the fire, because they were too busy arguing about which department should do it.

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