Welcome to the next in an ongoing series of writing prompts in the Worldbuilding community !
I'm aiming to post one of these each Sunday. They aren't a replacement for the excellent daily prompts from 
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The prompt this week is - Emergency Services
When we write fiction, it's all to easy to write about armies and navies, and maybe (depending on the setting) air and space forces. But what about the other services, the civic rather than military ones ? The fire brigades and ambulance services, the disaster response and mountain rescue teams.
Tell me a story from your sci-fi or fantasy setting about an emergency service. What is their purpose ? How are they funded ? )r maybe like the Roman and Medieval fire-fighters, they're self-funding by asking for payment before springing into action. How well equipped are they, and what do they use ? How dangerous is their work - where do they get recruits, and how are they paid or rewarded ?
Just to add a bit of spice to things, the two entries I most like (and are linked in comments to this post, so I can find them !) that are posted by midnight (GMT) next Saturday will each get a prize of one Hive SBI.
This link will take you to the FAQ where you can read more about Hive SBI - it's a project I thoroughly support because it gives both the donor and winner a steady trickle of passive income paid out in the form of upvotes on posts.
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