Fire Marshal's Office Fire Prevention Week Apparel: School Visit Apparel, Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Apparel, Inspection Team Polos, Burn Awareness Week

It is 7:33am on a Wednesday in early September at a 12-fire inspector and arson investigator county fire marshal's office serving Williamson County, Texas with 12 sworn inspectors. Fire Prevention Week is the second week of October — five weeks away. The fire marshal is at the desk pulling up the school visit schedule and the Fire Prevention Week planning binder, sorting through the morning's tasks, and pulling up email on the second monitor. The first message in the inbox is from the fire-services-overseeing county commissioner: "Fire Prevention Week is in five weeks. We need apparel for the inspectors doing school visits, the Sparky mascot crew, and the open-house team." Last year the school visit apparel arrived after the week ended. The school principals have been asking about the FPW visits.

The fire marshal has been in the role for several years. The job description does not include apparel. The fire marshal handles the schedule, the operational logistics, the personnel coordination, the compliance paperwork, the budget tracking, the vendor disputes, the county commissioner-level reporting, and the apparel. The county commissioner does not want to spend twenty minutes researching shirt vendors. The team does not want to be on a committee. So the fire marshal does it.

A fire marshal's office of this size runs about 9 apparel touchpoints per year. Fire Prevention Week School Visit Apparel (second week of October), Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Crew Apparel, Inspection Team Polos, Burn Awareness Week Apparel (first week of February), Arson Awareness Week Apparel (early May). Open House and Station Tour Apparel, Memorial Service Apparel, Annual Fire and Life Safety Conference Apparel, Holiday and Year-End Recognition Apparel. Each of those touchpoints is a separate order, a separate design, a separate sizing collection, and a separate scramble.

The fire marshal's actual problem is not "we need shirts." It is an annual Fire Marshal Fire Prevention apparel calendar problem. The vendor relationship needed is one that handles the recurring small-volume orders without forcing the fire marshal to start from zero each time, supports the wider sizing range XS through 4XL, and operates against a published calendar so the fire marshal does not have to remember each event individually.

A print-on-demand vendor relationship oriented around the annual calendar is the structural fix. This playbook is that calendar.

The Fire Marshal Fire Prevention Apparel Pattern

A fire marshal's office with 10 to 25 fire inspector and arson investigator has a distinctive apparel pattern. The pattern is high-frequency, low-volume, with strong seasonal and event-based clustering, and a mix of staff-facing apparel and office and community-facing apparel.

The recurring apparel touchpoints in a typical year at a fire marshal's office this size:

Fire Prevention Week School Visit Apparel (second week of October). The second week of October is Fire Prevention Week. Inspectors visit elementary schools across the county. Volume is 15-25 tees.

Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Crew Apparel. Apparel for the team supporting the Sparky the Fire Dog mascot at school visits and community events. Volume is 8-15 tees.

Inspection Team Polos. Identification polos for the fire inspectors during business inspections. Volume is 10-20 polos.

Burn Awareness Week Apparel (first week of February). The first week of February is Burn Awareness Week. The office runs apparel for the awareness campaign. Volume is 10-20 tees.

Arson Awareness Week Apparel (early May). Arson Awareness Week is the first week of May. The arson investigators run apparel for the week. Volume is 5-10 tees.

Open House and Station Tour Apparel. Apparel for the inspectors at open house events and station tours. Volume is 10-20 tees.

Memorial Service Apparel. Apparel for line-of-duty death memorial events. Volume is 10-20 polos.

Annual Fire and Life Safety Conference Apparel. Apparel for the staff attending the Texas Fire Marshals Association annual conference. Volume is 8-12 polos.

Holiday and Year-End Recognition Apparel. Holiday apparel and year-end recognition for the office. Volume is 10-15 tees.

The 9 touchpoints share a vendor relationship but do not share designs, garment selection, or volume profiles. Each event is its own apparel project running against a common operational pattern.

The Apparel Budget Problem at a Fire Marshal Fire Prevention

A fire marshal's office with 10 to 25 fire inspector and arson investigator usually does not have a dedicated apparel budget line. The fire marshal funds apparel out of one of three sources: the office operating budget, the marketing budget (if the fire marshal's office has one, which most do not have at this scale), or the staff appreciation budget (which is usually a small annual amount that covers food, gifts, and apparel collectively).

The annual apparel spend at a typical 12-fire inspector and arson investigator fire marshal's office lands somewhere in the $2,000-5,000 range across the year [Inference]. The spend is fragmented across multiple small orders, each of which is typically $180-450. The orders are not large enough to attract attention from the county commissioner's monthly P&L review, but they accumulate across the year.

The structural problem is that each small order placed independently from a retail-print vendor lands at the high end of per-shirt pricing. A 15-shirt order from Custom Ink at $19-26 per shirt costs $285-390. A 15-shirt order from a POD vendor with an established account relationship lands at $14-18 per shirt for the same garment, or $210-270 [Inference]. The per-order savings are $75-120. Across 9 orders per year, the annual savings are $600-1,500.

The POD vendor relationship structure that supports Fire Marshal Fire Prevention apparel is one where the fire marshal's office has a saved account, saved design templates, saved roster sizing, and per-order invoicing that handles small recurring orders without each order being a fresh transaction.

Fire Prevention Week School Visit Apparel (second week of October)

Fire Prevention Week is the office's largest single community-education event.

The design pattern for the Fire Prevention Week School Visit Apparel (second week of October) apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal FPW School Visits 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 28-35 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $13-18 per tee at 15-25 quantity. Annual spend lands at $195-450 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal community outreach budget.

Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Crew Apparel

The Sparky crew supports the mascot's appearances.

The design pattern for the Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Crew Apparel apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Sparky Crew 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 28-35 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $13-18 per tee at 8-15 quantity. Annual spend lands at $105-270 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal community outreach budget.

Inspection Team Polos

Inspection polos identify the inspectors during commercial business inspections.

The design pattern for the Inspection Team Polos apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Inspection Polos 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 28-35 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $25-38 per polo at 10-20 quantity. Annual spend lands at $250-760 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal operating budget.

Burn Awareness Week Apparel (first week of February)

Burn Awareness Week is the winter community-education campaign.

The design pattern for the Burn Awareness Week Apparel (first week of February) apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Burn Awareness 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 21-28 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $13-18 per tee at 10-20 quantity. Annual spend lands at $130-360 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal community outreach budget.

Arson Awareness Week Apparel (early May)

Arson Awareness Week is the recognition for the arson investigation team.

The design pattern for the Arson Awareness Week Apparel (early May) apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Arson Awareness 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 21-28 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $13-18 per tee at 5-10 quantity. Annual spend lands at $65-180 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal community outreach budget.

Open House and Station Tour Apparel

Open house events bring the community into the station.

The design pattern for the Open House and Station Tour Apparel apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Open House 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 21-28 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $13-18 per tee at 10-20 quantity. Annual spend lands at $130-360 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal community outreach budget.

Memorial Service Apparel

Memorial service apparel is reserved for memorial-event use.

The design pattern for the Memorial Service Apparel apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Memorial Service 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 28-35 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $22-32 per polo at 10-20 quantity. Annual spend lands at $220-640 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal operating budget.

Annual Fire and Life Safety Conference Apparel

Conference apparel identifies the inspectors at the annual professional conference.

The design pattern for the Annual Fire and Life Safety Conference Apparel apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Conference 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 28-35 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $22-32 per polo at 8-12 quantity. Annual spend lands at $175-385 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal training budget.

Holiday and Year-End Recognition Apparel

Year-end recognition closes the year.

The design pattern for the Holiday and Year-End Recognition Apparel apparel:

• A fire marshal's office-specific design that names the fire marshal's office and the year (e.g., "Williamson County Fire Marshal Holiday 2026" with a fire marshal badge and prevention emblem)
• A garment color that does not conflict with daily uniform colors (fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors reads well)
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly
• A retail-quality blank garment because the shirt is kept and re-worn

The order pattern: the fire marshal pulls the team roster 21-28 days before the event, confirms sizes, and places a single POD order. The shirts arrive 7-10 days later and are distributed at the team meeting the day of or the day before.

The pricing at POD volumes: $13-18 per tee at 10-15 quantity. Annual spend lands at $130-270 for this event.

The funding pattern: fire marshal operating budget.

Sizing for a Fire Marshal Fire Prevention Team: XS to 4XL

A fire marshal's office team's sizing distribution spans the full range. The fire marshal needs to support the full range in a single order.

The practical sizing range that a Fire Marshal Fire Prevention apparel order needs to support: XS through 4XL at a minimum.

The sizing distribution at a typical Fire Marshal Fire Prevention order [Inference]:

• XS: 5-10 percent

• S: 18-24 percent

• M: 22-28 percent

• L: 20-26 percent

• XL: 12-18 percent

• 2XL: 5-10 percent

• 3XL: 2-5 percent

• 4XL: 1-2 percent

The distribution skews against the actual team demographic, not against a normal consumer population. The fire marshal's order should be sized against the actual roster.

The sizing-capture pattern that works for a fire marshal's office:

• Capture sizes at the new-team-member onboarding moment
• Store the size in the HR or team database
• Confirm sizes with each team member at the start of the year
• Update the database after each order based on returns or fit issues

The sizing data persists. The fire marshal who runs 9 orders per year benefits from the persistence.

Designing Fire Marshal Fire Prevention Apparel That Reads as Professional

A Fire Marshal Fire Prevention team tee is worn at events that read as part of the fire marshal's office's identity. The design needs to read as professional and credible while not being so formal that it loses its team-event warmth.

The structural design choices that work:

• Typography that reads as institutional. A clean sans-serif or a quietly editorial serif. The fire marshal's office name in clean type rather than a hand-script or a brushy font.
• Color palette that does not conflict with daily uniform colors. fire department red, navy, charcoal, prevention-blue or prevention-specific colors.
• Restrained imagery. A small fire marshal's office logo or a single illustrated element appropriate to the fire marshal's office's identity.
• A back design that names the fire marshal's office clearly.

The POD model supports any of these directions. The vendor's design team can produce a professional design or a warmer community-event design depending on the brief.

Designing Without Crossing first-responder identity and fire-trademark

A Fire Marshal Fire Prevention apparel design must avoid first-responder identity and fire-trademark territory. Use of the Sparky the Fire Dog mascot apparel requires NFPA licensing.

The safe design choices:

• General fire prevention and community safety education messaging
• fire marshal's office-specific messaging that references the organization but not any individual
• Holiday and seasonal messaging that references the team's spirit

The design choices to avoid:

• Any reference to specific individuals, even in anonymized form, if they could be identified
• Any humor that could embarrass or stigmatize members of the office and community-facing the fire marshal's office serves
• Any reference that could read as a marketing claim requiring regulatory review

The POD vendor's design team typically does not have specific compliance training, but the fire marshal and the county commissioner do. The brief sent to the vendor should be reviewed by the fire marshal before approval.

The Annual Calendar (Month-by-Month)

The recurring apparel events for a typical fire marshal:

• January: Burn Awareness Week apparel design

• February: Burn Awareness Week

• March: Inspection polo design

• April: Inspection polos; Arson Awareness Week design

• May: Arson Awareness Week; Police Week recognition for fire investigators

• June: Conference apparel

• July: Summer outreach apparel

• August: FPW apparel design

• September: FPW apparel order

• October: Fire Prevention Week school visits; Sparky crew; open house

• November: Memorial service apparel for any annual events

• December: Holiday recognition; annual apparel review

The calendar is the planning document the fire marshal uses to schedule the orders, coordinate with the county commissioner for budget approval (when needed), and align with the events team for distribution moments. A shared calendar between the fire marshal and the POD vendor's account contact prompts the fire marshal at the appropriate lead times.

Vendor Relationship Over Transactional Print Shop

The fire marshal who has ordered apparel from one of the retail-print vendors knows the pattern. Each order is a transaction. The vendor does not know the fire marshal's office. The design files for the prior recognition week are not stored. The sizing data is not stored. Every order is a fresh upload, a fresh quote, a fresh size collection, and a fresh approval.

The vendor-relationship model is structurally different. The vendor knows the fire marshal's office. The design files for prior recognition-week, holiday, and event apparel are stored. The sizing data is stored on the team roster. The vendor's account contact knows the fire marshal, knows the annual calendar, and prompts the fire marshal at the appropriate lead times.

The operational difference shows up most clearly in the time-to-place-order:

• Transaction model: 45-90 minutes per order (design upload, garment selection, size collection, shipping address entry, proof approval, payment)
• Relationship model: 10-20 minutes per order (pull the saved design template, confirm the roster, confirm the garment, submit)

For a fire marshal running 9 apparel orders per year, the time difference is several hours per year. The relationship model also means the fire marshal can hand the ordering work to a trusted lead without retraining each time. The transaction model requires the fire marshal to re-engage every order.

The POD vendor relationship model is what print-on-demand vendors with established account workflows are designed to provide. A POD vendor relationship makes this possible. The transaction model is what retail-print vendors are designed to provide.

The Fire-Services-Overseeing County Commissioner Approval Pattern

The county commissioner does not want to be involved in apparel decisions on the recurring events. The fire marshal's job is to handle apparel without escalating to the county commissioner unless an exception is needed.

The approval pattern that works:

• Pre-approved annual budget at the start of the year (the fire marshal presents the calendar and the projected spend; the county commissioner approves the annual total)
• Pre-approved design directions for recurring events (recognition-week template approved annually; Halloween, Thanksgiving, Christmas designs use the same template each year with the year updated)
• Exception escalation only when (a) a new event is added to the calendar, (b) the annual spend is trending above the approved budget, or (c) a design touches anything sensitive

The pre-approved structure means the fire marshal places orders against the calendar without re-asking for approval each time. The county commissioner sees the apparel land at events, sees the team wearing the shirts, and reviews the year-end total at the annual budget review.

Budget Planning for the Annual Apparel Spend

A fire marshal at a 12-fire inspector and arson investigator fire marshal's office can plan apparel spend at the start of the fiscal year. The spend lands in 9 distinct line items across the year.

The typical annual apparel budget for a fire marshal's office of this size [Inference]:

• Fire Prevention Week School Visit Apparel (second week of October): $195-450

• Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Crew Apparel: $105-270

• Inspection Team Polos: $250-760

• Burn Awareness Week Apparel (first week of February): $130-360

• Arson Awareness Week Apparel (early May): $65-180

• Open House and Station Tour Apparel: $130-360

• Memorial Service Apparel: $220-640

• Annual Fire and Life Safety Conference Apparel: $175-385

• Holiday and Year-End Recognition Apparel: $130-270

The total annual apparel spend for a fire marshal's office of this size is typically $2,000-5,000 [Inference]. The spend is fragmented across event-specific cost centers in most fire marshal's office accounting systems.

The POD vendor relationship that supports this is one that handles per-order invoicing to multiple cost centers and a single annual account statement for end-of-year review. The retail-print vendor that treats each order as a separate transaction does not support this.

Production Timeline and Texas Shipping

The POD production timeline for the fire marshal's typical orders is 5-7 business days from order confirmation to shipped status. Ground shipping within Texas adds 1-2 business days.

The order-to-arrival math for a Texas fire marshal's office:

• Order confirmed on a Monday
• Production complete by the following Tuesday or Wednesday
• Ground shipped Tuesday or Wednesday, arrives Wednesday or Thursday
• Total time: 9-11 calendar days from confirmation to arrival

The Texas POD vendor proximity matters for late-add orders. A vendor with Texas production and Texas ground shipping can run a late-add order in 7-10 days from order to delivery. A vendor with longer shipping distances or longer production cycles cannot.

What a Faceless Vendor Relationship Looks Like

A POD vendor relationship that supports the fire marshal's annual calendar handles the following operationally:

• A saved design library across the 9 recurring events
• A roster integration that pulls sizing from the fire marshal's office's team database without re-collecting per order
• Per-order invoicing to multiple cost centers within the fire marshal's office's accounting system
• A standing relationship with the fire marshal and a trusted lead for order placement
• A production calendar visible to the vendor so the vendor can prompt the fire marshal at the appropriate lead times

The POD model lets you operate this way at Fire Marshal Fire Prevention scale. InkMerge handles this by maintaining the fire marshal's office's account, the design library, the roster data, and the annual calendar in a single vendor relationship that operates against the published apparel calendar.

Q&A for Fire Marshals

Q: How does a fire marshal plan the annual apparel calendar?

A: Build a 9-event annual calendar covering Fire Prevention Week School Visit Apparel, Sparky the Fire Dog Mascot Crew Apparel, Inspection Team Polos, Burn Awareness Week Apparel, Arson Awareness Week Apparel, and the rest of the year's recurring events. Each event has its own design, garment selection, and roster but operates against a shared vendor relationship and a shared sizing database. The calendar is shared with the POD vendor so the vendor prompts the fire marshal at the appropriate lead times.

Q: What is the right way to handle the county commissioner's approval pattern for apparel?

A: Pre-approve the annual budget and the recurring design templates at the start of the year. Run the recurring orders against the pre-approved structure without escalating each time. Escalate only when adding a new event, when annual spend is trending above budget, or when a design touches anything sensitive.

Q: How does a fire marshal's office handle the wide sizing range (XS-4XL) without separate orders?

A: Capture sizes at the new-team-member onboarding moment and store them in the HR or team database. Confirm sizes annually. Update the database after each order. Order against a POD vendor that stocks XS through 4XL.

Q: How is Fire Marshal Fire Prevention apparel funded across 9 events per year?

A: Each event funds from a specific cost center. Recognition-week apparel runs on the staff appreciation budget. Community-facing apparel runs on the marketing or community outreach budget. Holiday tees often run on staff appreciation with optional staff buy-in.

Q: What is the production timeline for Fire Marshal Fire Prevention apparel orders?

A: 5-7 business days for POD production at typical fire marshal's office order volumes (10-25 shirts). Ground shipping within Texas adds 1-2 business days. Recognition-week orders go 14-18 days before the event. Community apparel goes 21-28 days before. Race sponsorship apparel goes 28-35 days before the race.

Q: How does a fire marshal's office avoid first-responder identity and fire-trademark design problems on apparel?

A: Keep apparel design general. Avoid any reference to specific individuals or sensitive details. The fire marshal should review the design brief before sending to the vendor; the county commissioner should review anything that touches sensitive territory.

Q: Should a fire marshal's office use the same POD vendor for all apparel orders?

A: Yes when the vendor supports a small-fire marshal's office account structure with saved designs, saved sizing, and per-order invoicing. The shared-vendor approach produces volume pricing benefits at the annual aggregate level, a consistent garment quality and design feel across events, and a single account contact for the fire marshal.

What to Do This Week

Pull the annual fire marshal's office event calendar. Confirm the dates for the recurring events. Identify the apparel touchpoint for each event.

Pull the apparel design library from prior years. Identify which designs can be refreshed versus which need a fresh design brief.

Pull the team roster. Confirm that the roster carries sizing data and that the sizes are current. If sizing data is not centrally stored, add a size-capture step to the new-team-member onboarding and confirm sizes for existing team members at the next meeting.

Pull the apparel cost-center map. Identify which budget line funds each event's apparel and confirm that the POD vendor can invoice to each line separately.

Request the InkMerge Fire Marshal Fire Prevention kit — templates for each of the 9 recurring events, sizing guidance, and pricing for the typical fire marshal's office order volumes. Reply with your fire marshal's office name and approximate team size.

Browse the InkMerge B2B fulfillment options for drop-ship terms and net-30 setup. The full InkMerge product catalog shows blank-stock options across the tee, polo, and quarter-zip ranges. The profit calculator shows the apparel pricing math for fire marshal's office of this size exploring the team-buy-in or fully-funded models.

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