San Antonio firefighters gather onto an aerial platform for a demonstration during a civilian employee appreciation event at the San Antonio Fire Academy on Thursday, Jan. 31, 2013. The employees had an opportunity to see how firefighters worked a fire and took rides in fire trucks including a nearly 90-feet ride in the air in one of the department's aerial platform trucks. Photo: Kin Man Hui, San Antonio Express-News / © 2012 San Antonio Express-News
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