"If you go to a firehouse and there isn't ice cream, it is a code violation," joked Hyde, one of seven career and 11 volunteer firefighters who rode out Hurricane Irene Saturday night at the West Annapolis Fire station on Jennifer Road.
It wasn't that the veteran firefighter didn't want to respond to an emergency. And it wasn't that there were no emergencies to be found as the storm dumped several inches of rain.
There just weren't many catastrophes in the Annapolis area...
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