It appears that fetching slots from the current (unfinished) epoch causes an error.
The below issue occurred when the current (latest) epoch was 874.
[2025-11-04T19:19:57.228770000Z INFO jetstreamer::firehose::T000] entering epoch 874
[2025-11-04T19:19:57.364322000Z ERROR jetstreamer::firehose::T000] 🔥🔥🔥 firehose encountered an error at slot 377568000 in epoch 874:
[2025-11-04T19:19:57.364480000Z ERROR jetstreamer::firehose::T000] Error reading header: early eof
[2025-11-04T19:19:57.364536000Z WARN jetstreamer::firehose::T000] restarting from slot 377568000 at index 0