From the ammount of damage given, I'd guess that this was a volunteer department. It would be easy enough to look it up and find out for sure, but I'm lazy and don't really care. The humor is in the "Fire station totaled by fire", not in the details

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I'm like one of those idiot savants...well, except for the savant part.
"In order to increase awareness of the homeless, security have been given binoculars."