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12’s Jim Murdoch is at the West Orange fire house spending the morning with
firefighters, who are always seconds away from being called to an emergency.

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Firefighters give thanks while standing by in case of emergency

Of course. Let us talk about the millions of families who are preparing their traditional meal right about now. There are other folks who are at the ready working today for the unexpected, including firefighters. News 12 New Jersey's Jim Murdock at the West Orange Firehouse. They are cooking up breakfast as we speak. Jim, good morning, Good morning, Dylan, Happy thanksgiving and happy thanksgiving to all who are watching. Yeah, millions of people right now getting their thanksgiving dinner's ready in the kitchen and thousands of people are showing up to work like these firefighters, you know, first responders, doctors, nurses, police officers, folks who keep the community safe. We're in the kitchen here at the West Orange fire house. The kitchen almost as essential as the equipment rooms here at the firehouse is butt head chef and Captain Gabriel got, what are we cooking up this morning today? We're doing some scrambled eggs, turkey bacon, avocado toast with a little PICO de guy with simple stuff. Just something that we could do quick in case we call comes in, usually busy season busy day. So we try to make things quick and easy that we wouldn't get caught up. But yeah, right now we're dicing some onions. We've got some bacon and our head chef, you're making some scrambled eggs. You know, this is what you folks sign up to do, first responders always working on holidays so we can enjoy hours and you said it also gets busy too, doesn't it? Especially in the afternoon. You got amateur cooks, people trying to cook preheating their ovens, not checking to make sure there's stuff in the oven when they preheated turkey fryers. So yeah, it gets a little busy, but we do what we can, we're prepared for it. We get extra sleeve, we get extra food, we make sure we're good to go. You know, this is what we need to be thankful for the folks watching at home. All those first responders out there doing the job that you do. You have to make a lot of sacrifice too. And I'm sure your families are well aware about. Oh, absolutely. I mean we sometimes celebrate the day before, day after just part of the job. Like any first responders like anybody else. Like we just have our family, they're always ready for that. Hopefully it'll, it'll stay like it is now. So you can get your breakfast cooking the bacon smells good. The tomatoes, you've got some PICO de gallo over there. Oh, this is gonna be a good breakfast. Absolutely. We have to be happy and full. So we have to be ready for the big one. Always. Thanks so much and thanks for all of the men and women. The first responders that are doing what they're doing out there so we can enjoy our holiday. We are live at the west Orange firehouse in essex county jim Murdoch news, 12, New Jersey. Happy thanksgiving

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