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volunteer fire-and-rescue squads.
“Twenty-four units? That sounds like a lot,” said Ray Wood, who has lived on Water Street with his wife, Pat, for 20 years.
The Woods echoed concerns about the availability of water for all the wells in the neighborhood and. potential strains on fire-and-rescue units.
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