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Special Hazards is a city wide truck. It responds to fires, accidents, technical rescues and hazmat situations throughout the entire city. It's district is the entire city. To say it was out of district is completely erroneous. Furthermore, firefighters pre-plan locations all the time. It's huge part of the job and is standard practice nationwide. When something is burning, it's not the time to find out where the hydrants are, where the standpipe connections are, where the sprinkler connections are etc. Companies need to know these things before a fire starts. So they go out and plan in advance. It is completely feasable that these firefighters were pre-planning and were engaged by some residents in conversation. There is nothing to suggest these firefighters "attended a party." Firefighters have conversations with residents while out and about performing functions of the job daily. Shame on the Mayor for admittedly reprimanding workers without knowing the whole story.