Author: Alex N

Bring together a group of fire service professionals and the term “public- private partnership” is not one you are likely to hear tossed around. The concept is often reserved for infrastructure projects like detention centers, highways, and the occasional fire station.

As children, we spent our summers between Ooty and Hyderabad — one cool, pleasant and infused with the fragrance of flowers, another hot and dry, but rich with history, its rocky terrain and giant boulders striking a note of other-worldliness in my childlike imagination.