The firehose_get download tool is a command-lined wrapper around the wget utility. If you do not have wget installed on your machine (you will know, because firehose_get will fail),here are some links that should help. Of course, Googling "pre-built wget binary" for your system (Mac / Windows) should get you essentially the same result.
WARNING: I make these available as a convenience,
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and have briefly tested the Mac versions. But I have not verified the integrity of these tools, nor
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can I promise that they will function on every machine. It is preferable for you to either Google your own version or download the source and build from scratch.
Macintosh
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