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The job of a fire marshal in the United States is often like the job of a private investigator: thankless and fascinating. But a private investigator’s role is usually punitive: figure out who’s scamming the insurance company, say, or where the ex-convict who broke parole ran to. A good fire marshal, on the other hand, never forgets one critical rule: fire safety comes first, no matter what.