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Article: Forest fires fought with community spirit In Rockport, scores drop work, come to aid in effort
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 14, 1995
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ROCKPORT -- When Peter A. Anderson left for work Tuesday, he was a
button-down bank president. He returned home that night a sweaty,
sooty firefighter.
Anderson was eating lunch when he heard about a call for
volunteers to help fight a relentless series of forest fires here.
Spurred both by civic-mindedness and a childhood fantasy, the
Rockport National Bank executive traded his gray suit for blue jeans,
slung a shovel over his shoulder and told his staff he'd be putting
out real fires for a change.
Anderson joined scores of volunteers who have taken temporary
leave of their jobs over the past two days to help battle the blazes.
They have included plumbers, ministers, mothers, students, ...