Their firehouse is located about seven miles from the Purcells' home.
But all those very good feelings have created a department that's incapable of change, and a city in which many firehouses are located where they were needed in the 19th century but not now.
A former high-level city official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity as the mayor is a wealthy fellow with a long reach, said: "Firehouses are located on a 100-year-old map that we should have torn up a long time ago.
O'Malley, who once worked for the U.S. Representative Dan Rostenkowski, runs the re-purposed firehouse, Chicago Firehouse Restaurant, which is located around the corner from the home of Mayor Richard M. Daley, who has been a steady customer.
The triangular-shaped paved property, opened by the department of parks in 1942, formerly housed the Black Stump School and subsequently the Black Stump Hook, Ladder and Bucket Company, a firehouse staffed by volunteers, located on what was then Black Stump Road.
As part of budget cuts announced last November, the Fire Department closed the Bronx fire marshal's office, which had 24 marshals and was located in an old firehouse at Park Avenue and 161st Street in the Melrose neighborhood.
Located in a converted firehouse, this restaurant has its fish flown in daily from the coasts and is decorated with eye-popping colors in a casual setting.
Alpert is the Co-Founder/Co-Executive Director of the Downtown Community Television Center (DCTV), the oldest and most honored non-profit community media arts center in the country that's located in a landmark Tribeca firehouse in New York City.
He also was the author of "The Old Stentorians," a history of the Fire Department's integration, and a founder of the African American Firefighters Museum, located in the old quarters of a segregated firehouse in South Los Angeles where he was stationed in the 1940s and early '50s.
"We don't build firehouses across the street from buildings we think are going to burn, but in centrally located areas".
