Wasn’t there just an eight-ish alarm fire somewhere in the US in the last month? How common are these?
Boston had a nine-alarm fire about 2 weeks go, in the Beacon Hill/Back Bay area (very nice neighborhood). Two firefighters died fighting that one.
Boston had a 9 alarm fire in late March, where 2 FF were killed. Out west, CA, maybe they had a large fire in a unfinished apartment building where a construction worker was forced to jump to a lower balcony until rescue arrived. I know that was something like 7 alarms.