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On the night of Oct. 29, the Aurora Fire Department responded to a house fire on Grant Place.

Department leadership gets automatic alerts about confirmed fires at any time of day or night, and so Fire Chief David McCabe started listening to his radio. It didn’t seem to be going well — every time firefighters turned around, there was fire inside another enclosed space of the house — so he drove over, he said.

As he’s walking around the scene, watching for hazards, he felt this “aura of peace” come over him. McCabe said he isn’t really a spiritual guy, it was just that he realized all the stuff he and others in the offices at the department do that’s monotonous and stressful, and all the meetings they sit through, they do it because of this.

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