My mother and the rest of the firemen's wives had the duty of bringing coffee and other drinks to the firemen. |
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The top end of the lorry's trailer was left hanging over the back of the car, which had to be cut out by firemen. |
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We were the first to get alarm bells in our houses, to carry defibrillators and we got our bleepers before the retained firemen. |
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Mr Marshall then went back into the tunnel with firemen to uncouple three of the tankers and drive them to safety. |
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They were rescued when firemen put ladders up to the bedroom window, smashed the glass and guided the trio to safety. |
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I believe the firemen deserve a decent pay rise but they were unwise to ask for 40 per cent. |
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Most of the remaining workers held unskilled positions such as brakemen or firemen. |
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Judging by the burnt blankets that the firemen have left beside the building, someone was squatting in there. |
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The story may have appeared reliable because firemen supposedly don't tell old wives' tales. |
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The Bunclody firemen will have their annual car wash on the Market Square on Saturday, August 31 starting at 10 am. |
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In what was described as a chapter of accidents, firemen had to break office windows to gain access to three Land Rovers at the terminal. |
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Officially they are referred to now as firefighters, although the old-fashioned and presumably chauvinistic word firemen is more descriptive. |
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On hearing about financial problems striking firemen may face this Christmas, a boy persuaded his mum to buy some gifts for their children. |
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Even with four firemen in their squad, Hoylake simply found him too hot to handle. |
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At first the firemen saw no humor in the escapade but finally let it pass without charging any one for turning in a false alarm. |
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During both fires, which occurred simultaneously at 11pm on Friday, firemen faced a severe shortage of water, leaking hoses and dry hydrants. |
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During the 1977 strike, firemen recall the police waving their overtime payslips in front of the picket lines. |
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In some cities firemen have been pelted with rocks and even attacked with fireworks. |
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At first I think the firemen were a bit bewildered but after 20 minutes or so on their hands and knees they were finding seed pips. |
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The municipal fire department was called and the firemen battled in a fruitless attempt to control the blaze. |
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We came upon a firehouse, and as Tara is collecting photos of Ambulances and Firetrucks, we asked the firemen if we could see the trucks. |
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Under the scheme, retained firemen answer medical emergency calls to deliver advanced first aid. |
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They're being drawn to careers of service, as police or firemen, emergency health workers, teachers, counsellors, or in the military. |
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In France, three volunteer firemen died yesterday while fighting a blaze that engulfed a barn. |
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Flames were shooting out through the first floor of the building when firemen arrived. |
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The firemen arrived within minutes and managed to put out the fire quite quickly. |
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Thousands of firemen, police, soldiers and volunteers sifted through the landscape of twisted metal and smashed concrete. |
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Local firemen were called to the scene and took a number of hours to get the blaze under control. |
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The driver was trapped inside and had to be rescued by firemen using cutting gear. |
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In one week firemen were called to the block 13 times because of teenage mobs wrecking it. |
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After three hours the couple were freed by firemen who rescued them from a window. |
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The firemen who put out this mess have far better things to do that to chase around after mindless little prats like you. |
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Even firemen during their recent industrial action answered the call where life was in danger. |
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The seamen who steer the ship, lookouts, the firemen in steamers, and greasers in the engine room would also be allocated two watches. |
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The firemen rush in and immediately hear muffled groans coming from the aisle. |
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The warden pounced after firemen pushed the car to the side of a busy dual carriageway to allow traffic to flow freely. |
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The union executive spent the weekend consulting local officials and individual firemen and women to gauge their mood. |
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Nationally three retained firemen have died within the past three years on active duty. |
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He even turned his hand to inventing, designing, among other things, a device for raising sunken vessels and a smoke helmet for firemen. |
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But there to greet them on the main bridge was the fearless firemen, with hoses at the ready. |
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And then quite suddenly you stumble across a little knot of firemen, armed only with picks, small forks, and their bare hands. |
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Four lorries were also wrecked in the blaze which was fought by 35 firemen at Barlows Mill off Stand Lane. |
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Greater Manchester was put on alert today as firemen prepared for the start of a national strike. |
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Oh good I thought, but apparently I slept through the car being set alight, the firemen coming and a tow truck. |
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Over the years, firemen have been rendering exemplary service at the most testing times. |
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For one thing, even on their existing pay, firemen are in the top half of the league table of full-time workers. |
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There were also employees responsible for the locomotives themselves, the drivers, the firemen and the cleaners. |
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Striking firemen have been warned to watch out for letter bombs after three Yorkshire men received devices through the post. |
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The chief fire officer signed him in as a firemen, when he arrived at the station. |
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Santa's reindeer left him in the lurch when they abandoned him on a church roof, leaving firemen to come to the rescue. |
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The club announced it was donating the entire evenings takings to the families of the missing firemen. |
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Imagine the field surgeons with scalpels and the firemen with the jaws of life. |
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Because of what the fire administration is terming an unauthorised visit, some firemen are up for disciplining for allowing you entry? |
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The firemen did heave a sigh of relief after pulling the deer out, but did not settle down and relax. |
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The rich moved complainingly into well-fortified hotels, and the police and firemen helped themselves to the contents of bombed or abandoned homes. |
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Every now and then the two firemen would shovel coal in to the boilers. |
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We need to be problem solvers, like rat-catchers and firemen. |
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On the St Clair Avenue side of the yards, there is an old house, now used by the locomotive department as a bunk house for the locomotive drivers and firemen. |
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The firemen confer with the organizers and then beckon them toward the front of the bus. |
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As well as the damage to the roof and cream carpet in the lounge, firemen were also forced to sweep water from the garage, which had been flooded from the freak storm. |
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And in Farnworth, firemen are the latest victims of baying, bottle-throwing youths who objected to them dousing a fire in the area where they congregate and upset residents. |
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Policemen all over the country and firemen are employees of governments. |
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The first rescue attempt was made by a team of firemen, but the current was too strong, so by 6pm a specialist civil defence team were drafted in. |
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They are seen, like firemen and policemen, as guardians of the public good, of the res publica, those things of the public that we all care about. |
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Without warning, there was a sudden stampede running full pelt up from the disaster site, men and women in fatigues, burly construction workers, firemen in bunker gear. |
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Staggering house prices are forcing qualified teachers, nurses, firemen and police officers to leave the borough because they cannot afford to buy in the area. |
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Teams of coastguards, paramedics and firemen had walked for two-and-half hours over the sands to get to the casualty, who had already spent a night trapped in torrential rain. |
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Bugles sound taps for the police persons, firemen and city and government and at times white doves are released at mourning services that bid farewell to groups. |
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Military resources will be stretched during the expected conflict making it difficult to deploy troops to cover again for striking firemen and women. |
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Ever seen two inebriated off-duty firemen at a local pub about to come to blows? |
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Striking firemen left their picket line to save a drowning horse. |
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When the towers collapsed, my building was shrouded in a debris cloud that shut out the light of day and muffled the sounds of firemen shouting and sirens wailing. |
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The firemen found they also had to manually install the pump that would deliver water from the sea. |
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As the rafters supporting the floor above were near this beam, which had to be removed, that portion of the second floor had to be propped by the firemen. |
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If that is so, Gordon, you will be able to loosen the purse strings a little to find something extra for the firemen. |
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He hoped that the River Fleet would form a natural firebreak, making a stand with his firemen from the Fleet Bridge and down to the Thames. |
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A group of nine volunteer firemen on a suburban New York brigade were once arrested, charged and convicted of pyromania. |
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We went down Auchengeoch pit against safety advice from pit bosses, attended fires and went in with firemen to help the injured. |
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Two firemen showed up in a fire truck and local residents grabbed fire hoses to try to help put out the flames. |
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The moving human mass and their bundles and carts made the lanes impassable for firemen and carriages. |
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But, even though 89 fire engines and over 400 firemen arrived they were unable to extinguish it. |
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The men form on either side of the rope to be hauled, and walk away with it like firemen marching with their engine. |
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The typical paddle wheel steamship was powered by a coal burning engine that required firemen to shovel the coal to the burners. |
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The fire took the lives of six firemen and drew national attention as one of the worst firefighting tragedies in the late 20th century. |
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To the firemen, this fire in the house was as unaccountable as, to the coroner, was the burned body in the unscorched clothes. |
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Mrs Prins also questioned the amount of time it took for firemen to reach the property. |
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The garrison at the Tower took matters into their own hands after waiting all day for requested help from James's official firemen who were busy in the west. |
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The police force was divided into cohorts of 500 men each, while the units of firemen ranged from 500 to 1,000 men each, with 7 units assigned to 14 divided city sectors. |
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She says there was a fire in a flat recently and as everyone milled about cluelessly and thought it a bit of a romp the firemen came and brought some order into the place. |
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The more experienced firemen were clamouring for demolition, but Bloodworth refused on the grounds that most premises were rented and the owners could not be found. |
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