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Meals at Fire Department Station 1 in Everett, Wash., resemble Thanksgiving dinner. The station averages 1,000 calls a month and the crew fuels accordingly. “Our plates are what most people use as meat platters,” says captain Richard Langford. Four years ago, Mr. Langford, 51, realized shift meals were sabotaging his childhood dream of bodybuilding. He revamped his diet, started bringing meals to work, hired a bodybuilding coach and entered his first competition. “To get up on stage in a mankini is scary, especially when…