" Gabrielli: "Then firemen came from every direction come in.
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We end our movies—the art docs—in the firehouse for the firemen, and the firemen in the group watch what their colleagues made from the artwork that has just been produced.
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The National Association of Professional Firemen and the Professional Firemen&aposs Trade Union issued a joint statement saying that the government&aposs recent reorganization of firefighting capabilities need to be reassessed and rethought.
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The firemen pretended not to notice when I started crying.
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"The firemen said there were little fires everywhere," Lexie says.
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Firemen, soldiers and police will keep a lower pension age.
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After an hour, firemen came; by then, the house was ashes.
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Locals applauded as it burned and some tried to obstruct firemen.
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In New Zealand's capital city, Wellington, firemen congregate between two streets.
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Several firemen were hurt while trying to put out the fires.
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News quickly spread and some firemen jumped on board as well.
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Firemen trying to douse the fire at Delhi's Natural History Museum.
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Like the Englewood firemen, Ashland's tried to save structures and people.
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You have firemen who understand the mechanics of how fire spreads.
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Firemen, soldiers and police were still scouring for a missing child.
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We got down about seven or eight flights, and suddenly, firemen appeared.
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Exhibit A: Chrissy delivering McDelivery merch to a group of enthusiastic firemen.
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He lived in a neighborhood with the firemen, police, plumbers and electricians.
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Experienced firemen said there was roughly a 20-minute window to evacuate.
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Some 150 firemen are putting out the fire and searching for survivors.
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Some teachers and firemen also said they would not recognize Spain's authority.
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The greatest army of firemen will be irrelevant in the digital world.
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"At least when the firemen are done with the hoses," Allen said.
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Your people could be cops, firemen, and the wives could be nannies.
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We saw a big fire and firemen trying to put it out — crazy.
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Roads were closed and firemen were on hand to put out the blaze.
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"Firemen were going inside the middle building looking for people," Mr. Pustelny said.
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In the final grouping, dilapidated buildings burn surrounded by debris, firemen, and police.
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A fourth member of the crew was thrown overboard and survived, firemen said.
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"I spoke to coaches, referees, firemen, policemen about the most promising," he said.
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The firemen opened the door and three dogs in wheelchairs came running out.
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Both policemen and firemen earn more than the average salary for men in America.
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The efforts of the firemen prevented the blaze from reaching the cathedral's two belfries.
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It has failed to pay teachers, doctors and firemen and to maintain public services.
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It took about 250 firemen working more than two days to put it down.
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I didn't think that the firemen were going to be able to stop it.
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Firemen and other officials are investigating what may have started the fire, he added.
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The firemen had great difficulty accessing the part of the building affected, he said.
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Before the riots, our neighborhood was filled with cops, firemen, construction workers and teachers.
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The firemen put out the blaze without much damage, and no one was hurt.
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The rescue was carried out by a team of 175 firemen and 14 fire engines.
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They're the volunteer firemen, they're on the board of education, they're committed to an area.
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"The firemen could hear cries for help from inside the building," spokesman Soiman Jahid said.
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Anybody who's drooled over a sexy-firemen calendar knows that: Blue-collar dudes are hot.
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It's for firemen, X Games medallists, and Civil War reënactors just like you and me.
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Everyone knows kitties in trees are for firemen to rescue, but puppies in storm drains?
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In it, doctors, firemen, grocers, pharmacists and police are shown working during the coronavirus pandemic.
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The firemen discriminate against no one: Texts in Chinese, Hindi, Persian and Spanish all burned.
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Police said the firemen had "privileged information and images of the fires" that were suspicious.
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Patrol officers, firemen and trauma surgeons all need the ability to project and communicate efficiently.
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Firemen and paramedics risked their lives to tame the raging inferno and save whoever they could.
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So, the caring citizen reached out to a team of firemen who made a heroic rescue.
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"Police officers are here in the world today so firemen can have heroes too," said Barbieri.
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He paid for former colleagues' kids educations, like John, and supported the children of fallen firemen.
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Every so often, firemen emerged with a pot or a painting they had managed to rescue.
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Apart from policemen, firemen and medics, the government is absent from the scene of the crime.
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"All three firemen were thrown over the guard rail and into the water below," Matey said.
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The blast, which left one person dead, was initially attributed by firemen to a gas leak.
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Only a few firemen remained, battling to save the harbour by re-directing the lava flow.
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It is not possible to think of women as soldiers and sailors, police patrolmen or firemen.
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It's visible throughout our homeland, when firemen and policemen put their own safety second to ours.
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I'm sure you could go online and find bleating goats that sing 'Let It Go.' Firemen.
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Firemen were putting out a fire at a building near the Champs-Elysees, a Reuters witness said.
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He then shot at firemen responding to put out the blazes as well, injuring three more people.
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There were two of those giant bathtubs set up with two pumper trucks and dozens of firemen.
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"The natural Trump coalition—farmers, firemen, policemen, veterans, small businessmen—has always been my coalition," he says.
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Because this authoritarian regime takes the book ban so seriously, "firemen" in this society actually start fires.
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Not long after, firemen dressed in waders knocked on the door, telling them they needed to evacuate.
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If we couldn't have shirtless firemen, we were determined to at least be blessed with drink specials.
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The firemen came in with a cart and a big can of water, no hoses, just buckets.
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The worst of these plans, that for Firemen, has only 3.57 years of benefits in the bank.
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At Garth Gardiner's, the firemen told Gardiner they would try to save his house, and they did.
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In 1997, Byrne joined a Berkshire Hathaway-backed company that made uniforms for police, firemen, and military.
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Firemen were being shot at because LAPD wouldn't cover them while they were putting out the fires.
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Everyone from the mayor to a group of firemen, students, and families sit down and eat together.
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Four firemen have also died, one by heart attack and three while bathing in a local lake.
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Our next-door neighbors were African American, and our block was comprised of cops, firemen, and immigrants.
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A Reuters photographer at the airport saw firemen enter a Turkish Airlines plane parked on the tarmac.
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Shortly after police and firemen arrived, Shannon Perez took out her cellphone and started recording the rescue.
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"People who have chosen to become firemen, policemen, and soldiers, they're likely to get hurt," Raymond Jr. says.
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The photos in its three ads show firemen putting out fires at restaurants in Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Italy.
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That's it — the policemen, the firemen, the construction workers, the lathers, the sheetrock workers, the electricians, the plumbers.
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Firemen were checking house by house in the area for possible dead and injured people, emergency services said.
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Residents say firemen and police refused to move it because of a beehive in one of the branches.
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Firemen shout slongans under an Estelada (Catalan separatist flag) during a march in Barcelona, Spain, October 27, 2017.
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Some 200 firemen are putting out the fires and are cooling the derailed tanks to avoid further blasts.
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He told the crowd he was stuck in an elevator for 25 minutes before being freed by firemen.
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"There might be some firemen who don't think it's a good idea to show them," Lieutenant Redpath said.
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One of the firemen got in my brother's face and threatened him, and another swung on my brother.
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The next day, a mob estimated at 10,256 burned down the hall -- as police and firemen stood by.
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You won't have as many people pursuing law enforcement or becoming EMTs, firemen and members of the military.
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Firemen rescued two paralyzed dogs that were inside, but two senior cats did not make it, Grim said.
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By the 21.1s and 252.8s, public-sector unions grew quickly to include teachers, firemen, police, and prison guards.
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Novice candidates include business people, teachers, doctors, 11 farmers, two firemen, a fighter pilot, a mathematician and a hairdresser.
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Thirty-one plant workers and firemen died in the immediate aftermath of the accident, mostly from acute radiation sickness.
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The SoCal resident, who grew up in New York City admiring firemen, got her Hollywood ending on Dec. 5.
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Do we have any firemen kicking down a burning door to save a child in any of these movies?
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These little piggies are going "wee, wee, wee" all the way home thanks to the work of dedicated firemen.
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The government employs a task force of people, called Firemen, to set the books on fire when they're discovered.
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Firemen in the state of Washington rescued three small animals from an apartment after a cooking session went awry.
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Hands-free Scott's idea was to integrate the thermal camera into the mask all firemen already use, the respirator.
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Thirty-one plant workers and firemen died in the immediate aftermath of the accident, most from acute radiation sickness.
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As the stunned feeling wore off, we were talking to one another and to the cops and the firemen.
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It took 590 firemen along with thousands of policemen from all sections of the force to calm things down.
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"Our firemen are still struggling to find a way in as the fire is still burning," Mr. Duterte said.
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My brother also said some of the firemen had destroyed some furniture that had no fire damage at all.
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He balked and removed the dynamite when he discovered that the explosion would likely kill twenty or more firemen.
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Firemen hosed down the narrow cobbled street, washing away cups and saucers, women's clothing, and hundreds of cocktail forks.
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"The refinery is continuing with its operations thanks to our firemen," the refining center added, without providing further details.
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Hallmark films tend to center on independent women with interesting jobs (novelists, chocolatiers) and appealing romantic prospects (princes, firemen).
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Five hours later and with no time to spare, a rescue crew reached the firemen via a ventilation duct.
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But once the music hit, the firemen swept the ladies off their feet, showcasing their cha-cha and foxtrot skills.
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" The star also applauded the first responders saying, "Thank you to all the brave firemen fighting this fire back home.
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The mix includes a lot of "Blue Lives Matter," and "Firemen Are Heroes," and entreaties not to forget 9/11.
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Minutes later, he spotted a fireman's helmet and held that up on stage as well, touting his support among firemen.
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Last Saturday, when a record 268 fires blazed countrywide, the government requested water planes and firemen from other European countries.
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The Englewood firemen had advised her to go, but as they watched the flashing lights recede they felt completely alone.
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Firemen and volunteers risked their lives time and again to pluck struggling flood victims from the swirling waters around Toronto.
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Firemen battled a huge fire outside a Methodist church in the main Hennessy Road where water canon were moving in.
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I've got cops and I've got firemen going and risking their lives each and every day in New York City.
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Firemen were on the scene in Brasilia but there were no immediate reports of people being killed, wounded or trapped.
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It's the firemen, the cops, the soldiers, the sailors; the people that coach our Little Leagues, that build our churches.
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And Nuclear family from Texas suggested these heroes: The person of the year should be all the firemen in California.
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Firemen had broken down the front door and smashed the windows; an acrid smoke still drifted from the lower ones.
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BELLAFANTE: And can you talk a little bit about the way you engaged firemen and what you learned about the culture and community of firemen that influenced — GANG: What we really noticed was the firefighters — they're actually rescue workers, not firefighters — like to eat together, and they stay there a few days at a time.
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Plante also said as part of the city's plan, firemen and police officers will be visiting about 5,000 homes in Montreal.
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It ends with a crowdfunding campaign for £300 (about $390) to fix a bathroom window that a crew of firemen destroyed.
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Local firemen successfully doused the flames, but not before Dornacher could snap a few pictures of the massive fireball for proof.
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In surveys of public confidence in professions, judges come way ahead of politicians (though well behind firemen, the most trusted group).
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The people responsible for policing those books are called "firemen," who are responsible for starting fires rather than putting them out.
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Dumont hatched the idea after watching a Sunday baseball game between circus clowns in Wichita for the week and local firemen.
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Eventually, Jordan became so nervous about the mother's behavior that she contacted VIPKid's 24-hour support team, known as the Firemen.
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However, it still took 19 fire engines and 110 firemen to control the situation, according to the South China Morning Post.
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Photos posted by Mehr showed bloodied pilgrims laid out in the street and firemen rummaging through the ruins of the guesthouse.
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We have a ton of doormen, firemen, school kids, older women, people that have been coming for generations, generations of families.
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The water is changed twice a year, with local firemen called in to remove and safely put back its enormous fish.
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Firemen said they struggled to get enough water to douse the flames and had to pump supplies from a nearby mosque.
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The details: Redding fire inspector Jeremy Stoke and a bulldozer operator were the firemen who lost their lives in the blaze.
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"Firemen, gas workers, even policemen need to be able to smell to detect marijuana, or alcohol, or gas leaks," said Cowart.
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I'm close to grass roots, I'll have over $28500 million [in the bank] and I'm very close to cops and firemen.
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Hundreds of firemen of the Paris Fire Brigade are doing everything they can to bring the terrible #NotreDame fire under control.
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"My heart will be with our firemen and those whose heart is continually skipping a beat during these fires," she wrote.
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The neighborhood where the plane crashed was heavily populated, and people looked on as police and firemen worked the rescue mission.
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Truffaut, she said later, liked her uniforms for the futuristic "firemen" (who actually burn books) because they had a Nazi quality.
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Visuals of soldiers and police, biker babes, and firemen, bros in cutoffs, whiskey bottles, melting steel, more bikes, more welders, tanks, fireworks, army soldiers, more video vixens, more firemen, more flags, a cigar, more scantily clad girls, flags waving, and finally Kid Rock, the avatar of the American dream, singing in front of Betsy Ross' finest handiwork.
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ADEN, Yemen — Ambulances rushed to retrieve bodies and firemen extinguished clouds of black smoke that emerged from the obliterated buildings around us.
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An elite squad of 19 Arizona firemen were killed in Arizona in 2014, the worst U.S. wildland firefighting tragedy in 80 years.
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The first is the hero phase: Rescuers rush in with boats to pluck stranded people off rooftops; firemen run into burning buildings.
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" Firemen are, as Beatty says, "custodians of our peace of mind, the focus of our understandable and rightful dread of being inferior.
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Luckily for the driver, firemen and local residents came equipped with hoses to keep the fish alive while the truck was reloaded.
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"When our alarm goes off, it's like (we're) firemen," he said, recalling the loud beeping that interrupted last year's Super Bowl showdown.
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A single spark from the tools on metal could reignite the whole well, so firemen constantly soak the wellhead with their hoses.
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Barrett's father and his uncles were volunteer firemen in the area, and, growing up, he often accompanied them in the fire truck.
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Twice every year, Boston graduates a new class of firemen to serve in one of the oldest fire departments of the nation.
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Several times, the fire's front line jumped over the trucks, and the firemen kept from burning by spraying a mist around themselves.
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We have chicken pie and mashed potatoes for dinner and my parents start talking about whether volunteer firemen get paid or not.
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Civil servants, firemen, bus drivers and many more have backed one of the protesters' chief demands: an independent inquiry into the crisis.
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Heading to a hotel across town with five other firemen, he struck a bump in the road and flew off the scooter.
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He was shot and killed by a sniper — firemen rode on the outside of the truck, clinging to the railing back then.
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We helped organize some 300 tractor trailers that were all donated by various big companies for support for the firemen and the ironworkers.
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Any profits the sharks earn from their investment will be given to a charity helping firemen who have become sick after 9/11.
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With an investigation on the causes of the blaze ongoing, witnesses, firemen and mayors agree on one thing: There was no evacuation order.
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They did not call authorities to say they had escaped, and six firemen who had rushed into the building to save them died.
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Some 900 firemen were brought in to tackle the blaze which broke out late on Monday afternoon in the picturesque Calanques national park.
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Bumping over rough ground, the trucks threw the firemen around, banging them up and bruising them as burning sparks went down their necks.
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Liam says he'll donate the money beyond the cost of repairing the window to two charities: one for toilets and one for firemen.
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The Hoops went down 1-0 to a semi-professional team from Gibraltar, whose players moonlight as military policemen, customs officers and firemen.
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"We do want to create societies where policemen and firemen and nurses can work and then live in the same community," he said.
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Surely some channel had covered a new theater production or a team of Egyptian firemen rescuing a pharaonic-looking cat from a tree.
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This part is where the firemen get involved:Unfortunately for my date, at this stage I could see only one way out of our predicament.
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In Fahrenheit 451's future, books are outlawed, and Firemen like Montag and Beatty are tasked with setting them ablaze to suppress their ideas.
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This time, taxi drivers burned tires on the ring road around Paris, blocking cars until firemen could stop the fire and remove the tires.
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Firemen rescued 20 people who were trapped in the hotel and another 80 were evacuated from the building, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
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"I don't know that a whole lot of people — maybe doctors and firemen — get that feeling of appreciation for what you do," he says.
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"We're just firemen," Mark Akahoshi, a leader of the task force, said later over a late-night package of Oreos in the Florida Keys.
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The implication is that's how much money Ellison should personally be on the hook to return to Oracle's coffers should Firemen win the case.
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Sure, firemen, policemen and teachers could see the values of their pension plans go up if stocks go up from a corporate tax cut.
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I saw it in the abandoned buildings, the fires, the stabbings, people openly shooting up heroin, cops and firemen being very brutal to the community.
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This is far from the first adaptation of Ray Bradbury's classic sci-fi novel about "firemen" who burn illegal literature in a dystopian, totalitarian regime.
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His father, who served in the department for decades, fired 62 black firemen in the early 1990s ostensibly for their support of affirmative action efforts.
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While some may prefer a hot and steamy firemen calendar for the holidays, one Oklahoma fire department opted to go in quite a different direction.
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Among people McKenzie grew up with who still live in Atwater, most work in agriculture, medicine, education or public services, as either police or firemen.
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A man, center bottom, bleeds from his injured leg as he gets helped from paramedics, firemen, and police in Central Park in New York, Sunday.
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Over 63 firemen worked over several hours to douse the fire, which started on the top floor of the building and swept across the museum.
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These vehicles, acquired from the military and the forest service, have been modified for prairie firefighting by the firemen themselves, all of whom are volunteers.
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"The people that I've interviewed include a fire chief, paramedics, firemen .... former doctors, people in retirement, business owners, people who worked for government," Mills said.
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The images he captured—firemen wielding shotguns, flame-engulfed storefronts, and mostly empty streets at night—were like something out of a post-apocalyptic movie.
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Dr. Ronald E. Brown: California's law for mandated reporters hit in the 80s, so firemen, nurses, doctors, teachers [are legally required to report suspected abuse].
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Firemen alerted Grim that his nearly 200-year-old St. Louis-area farmhouse was on fire with a bang on the door late Saturday night.
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In all, 2,500 people were involved in containing the fire and helping the injured, including police, firemen, doctors, and nurses, The New York Times reported.
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The theme of censorship is the template for Ray Bradbury's novel, "Fahrenheit 451" where the dystopian society has banned books and firemen burn down houses.
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And in Montreal, police officers and firemen went door to door to check on elderly residents during a weeklong heatwave that killed more than 70 people.
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A far cry from nude ladies or sweaty firemen, Australia's national weathercasters have compiled a calendar we can get behind — one overflowing with serious storm porn.
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To prove his point he screened a film showing firemen pumping water from the pristine blue pool, set to an elegiac soundtrack of "O Sole Mio".
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A state of emergency has been declared in central Evia as more than 227 firemen, supported by six helicopters and six other aircraft, battle the blaze.
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But the firemen were on top of it because within like five minutes you just saw a huge line of them just driving up the hill.
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Eyewitnesses of the tragedy reported seeing a massive fireball and plume of smoke when the plane crashed, which sent firemen and police scurrying to the scene.
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Huard said Brady once gave his teammates a pep-talk to make sure they wouldn't lose to a group of local firemen in a charity game.
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Firemen were stationed on every floor, with security guards in the basement, as a precaution after the scare but Chiller said such measures would not continue.
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Firemen and police officer positions have been cut, the sanitation department has been privatized, and the local farmers market was also sold off to private investors.
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In my own reporting, I've come across perps who were assistant managers at fast-food chains, university professors and CEOs, firemen and cops, dentists and doctors.
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Although he doesn't admit to being a cat guy, he sprinted out of the office to check on his cat, and found firemen at his building.
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"I was watching the firemen the other day, and they were raking areas, they were raking areas where the fire was right over there," Trump said.
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Iran's Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, issued a statement Thursday supporting the firefighters' rescue efforts and giving his condolences to the families of the firemen who died.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - German firemen on Wednesday removed a golden statue of Turkish President Tayyip Erdogan on security grounds after it provoked an angry response from local people.
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Firemen waded through thigh-deep water to rescue women and children in flooded villages while rescue teams used inflatable boats to reach people stranded in urban areas.
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Instead of being mid-level functionaries, firemen are stars in a COPS-like internet reality show, where they can bask in waves of floating emoji during busts.
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The comedy—in which Adam Sandler and Kevin James lead as Boston firemen who construct a sham marriage for insurance reasons—is downright hard to sit through.
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When a building would catch on fire in Ancient Rome, he would appear soon after with his a slave army of firemen, and a bag of money.
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And it was very interesting, I was watching the firemen and they're raking brush — you know the tumbleweed and brush and all this stuff that's growing underneath.
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"Search and rescue operations are still on," said P.S. Rahangdale, chief fire officer of the Mumbai Fire Brigade, adding two firemen were injured during the rescue operation.
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More than 3,000 troops, police and firemen were dispatched to the area from around Japan, and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said more would be sent if needed.
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The Englewood volunteer firemen had already given up trying to stop the ranks of flames rolling across the prairie and were focussed on saving people and structures.
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Firemen, caked in coal dust, blinded by wind and smoke, had to make sure that the engine didn't explode, an eventuality they weren't always able to forestall.
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One of the troublesome pair was captured almost at once; the other climbed on a high ledge and showered the policemen and firemen with bric-a-brac.
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By the time he was 210, he was editor of the national magazine of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen, then an important union of skilled railroad workers.
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Suddenly, a fire truck pulls in, followed by a CHP patrolman and another cop car, and before they know it, they're hanging out with cops and firemen.
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In a screenshot of text, Hart referenced "a news anchor or journalist" as well as basketball players, architects, CEOs, firemen and doctors, and focused on learning and growth.
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I also think that even though there are obviously threats to women in urban environments, there are police and firemen and other people and other women and structures.
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There are also many teachers, civil servants and doctors, 11 farmers, two firemen, a hairdresser, an ex-professional golfer, a theologian, a mathematician and a female fighter pilot.
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Two hundred and twenty-five firemen worked to put the blaze out for 15 hours, at the peak using 36 pumps to spray 2003½ million gallons of water.
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You don't hesitate—you take out your phone, and you call the fire department, or animal control, and then firemen/raccoon-wranglers are promptly dispatched to your home.
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About 120 gendarmes, 300 firemen and four helicopters were deployed in the area and emergency services rescued a total of 119 children, local authorities said in a statement.
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No. These are the names of the firemen, called out by the narrator as the stop-motion characters slid down the pole in the children's TV show Trumpton.
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When I arrived in Amatrice at 7 PM on Wednesday, policemen, firemen, soldiers, and Civil Protection units were digging in the rubble and trying to coordinate the operation.
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Giuliani is the grandson of Italian immigrants, born to a working-class family comprised of firemen and policemen, which he said gave him an appreciation for public servants.
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Its overdeveloped thematic superstructure includes not only the Sabines, whose leader, Hersilia, makes occasional spectral appearances, but also Grace's obsessions with abandoned mines, perpetual fires and hunky firemen.
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But now I was making a film adaptation of Ray Bradbury's seminal novel, "Fahrenheit 451," which presents a future America where books are outlawed and firemen burn them.
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The suggested banning of words is reminiscent of Ray Bradbury's 1953 futuristic novel, Fahrenheit 451, wherein reading was outlawed and firemen were ordered to burn all the books.
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About 12,300 soldiers, policemen and firemen clambered across expanses of debris of splintered wood and mud hoping to reach about 500 people cut off by landslides, NHK reported.
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In the Paris metropolitan area, 10,300 police, gendarmes, soldiers, firemen and other personnel will be deployed, police said, fewer than the 11,000 in 2015 just weeks after the Nov.
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Here's Wikipedia with some of the descriptions that made the rounds at the time: Two volunteer firemen who saw it said it was a "large bird with red eyes".
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Miss Behave, who hosts an evening billed as a "game show, variety show, and disco" will perform; as well as the Circus Firemen, whose acrobatics act includes fire juggling.
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A civil defence department made a set of reaction images featuring firemen last year, while Beijing highway police used rage comics in public service messages as early as 2013.
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Jill Freedman, the 77-year-old street photographer famous for her work documenting cops, firemen, and circus people, will be showing and participating in Art Basel Miami this weekend.
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My roommates were crying and freaking out; there were the firemen, police, vice squad, reporters, it was a traumatic thing... Meow Wolf kept us afloat over the last year.
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By the time I got to my mother's apartment 10 minutes later, she had set the fire alarm off and the firemen were already pulling hoses off their trucks.
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"I was watching the firemen the other day and they were raking areas, they were raking areas where the fire was right over there," Trump said in the interview.
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Adapted from the classic dystopian novel by Ray Bradbury, this cautionary tale imagines an entertainment-obsessed future where "firemen" wipe out history by burning books and their digital reproductions.
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Ayatollah Khomeini assumes power in Iran; Margaret Thatcher becomes the British Prime Minister; and, in Santa Barbara, Dorothea Fields (Annette Bening) invites a squad of firemen to a party.
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As part of the deal, any profits the sharks earn from the investment would be given to a charity helping firemen who became sick after 9/11, the Sharks said.
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That movie, which debuts on May 19th, stars Michael B. Jordan and Michael Shannon as "firemen" in a dystopian future where books are banned and they're tasked with destroying them.
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Picture this: The stoic-looking heartthrob (and also everyone's dad) sitting in a fire simulation room surrounded by real firemen, a fire truck, gear and equipment hanging from the walls.
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Click here to view original GIFRay Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 tells the story of a dystopian future where books have been outlawed and are destroyed by firemen who set them ablaze.
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You have to remember you're in a LA, a city with 10 million people, and at night there's fires burning and there's only firemen, myself, and a few people around.
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"Firemen had trouble reaching the area because of small alleyways," Mr. Tiu said of the warren of closely built homes, some constructed of no more than plywood and scrap metal.
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With our colleagues from the Reparto Mobile Senigallia and the firemen, we dug with our bare hands for nine hours, and at the end we were able to find the girl.
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Police said they could no longer guarantee people's safety so firemen used a large crane to take away the statue under the cover of darkness in the early hours of Wednesday.
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You see firemen laughing about that comment from the sex worker that worked on another thing, who is reacting to what, and why, and how are they interpreting this [other thing].
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More than a hundred firemen battled for about three hours to douse the flames that broke out early on Tuesday on the top floor of the National Museum of Natural History.
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Firemen scrambled to put out at least 60 to a 100 fires burning across Massachusetts cities of Lawrence, Andover and North Andover after a series of gas explosions occurred Thursday evening.
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It can also drive firemen mad, as attested by this cute warning, issued by Zagreb, Croatia's Fire Department, which had to rescue a number of people from handcuffs on the Feb.
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Prior to 2011, warning broadcasts were mostly limited to television, radio, and city officials on loudspeakers, with volunteer firemen in trucks roaming the roads, telling residents to flee to higher ground.
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Brazil's most well known state has been unable to tap debt markets and is thus struggling to pay its teachers, firemen, doctors and keep up on all number of public services.
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Back on the roof, by 3 PM, security guards, health officials, firemen, and police officers had clambered up to try to dissuade Little Huang, Junjun, and the two others from jumping.
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Notre-Dame's spire was destroyed and its roof gutted but the bell towers were still standing and many valuable art works were saved after more than 400 firemen contained Monday's blaze.
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PADUA, Italy (Reuters) - A high-speed power boat trying to set a speed record crashed into an artificial reef in the Venitian Lagoon on Tuesday night, killing three people, firemen said.
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And since there aren't many books left, firemen have turned to torching things like films and old computers, even though the fumes would be incredibly toxic and the whole practice completely unnecessary.
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A couple of thousand more will be employed as firemen and "vehicle inspectors" in Borno; a "sizeable chunk" will be sent to farm with "modern agricultural equipment", says the state's attorney-general.
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Le Petit Palais, a Paris city museum, owns an enormous 1851 Courbet painting, "Firemen Running to a Blaze," which is so dark with old varnish that firefighters have receded into the shadows.
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When we got back, the fire had been extinguished, but my brother had accused a few of the firemen of pocketing some jewelry and smashing some framed family pictures on the floor.
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Firemen used a metal basket on the end of a crane to lower themselves into the church, whose roof has collapsed, to rescue relics such as an antique icon and a broken crucifix.
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"I got in a rowboat with a bunch of firemen because they were so tall and handsome," said Hibbs, who spoke to BuzzFeed News while she got her hair cut, curled, and styled.
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In early June, some of the carpenters, roofers and firemen of HEART 9/11 came to a screening of the film at The 9/11 Memorial Museum, along with Perez, Rodriguez and Keegan.
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Firemen exist because racial minorities fought to ban books that insulted or dehumanized them, then other people adopted "minority" labels to ban books that insulted them, and soon all books were considered offensive.
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Beatty (The Shape of Water villain Michael Shannon) is grooming Montag to take over his department and lead a new generation of firemen, but it's not clear that people need their services anymore.
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With his job on the show focusing on tackling personal style and fashion, France has won the hearts of millions of viewers with his sweet and sensitive advice to firemen and pastors alike.
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"I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-Eleven, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down," Mr. Trump said on Monday evening.
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In addition to the luxury housing, offices, retail spaces, hotels and entertainment venues — the mini-city will also include "Workforce Housing" for people who serve the community (nurses, teachers, firemen, police officers etc.).
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Sometime between 10:00 and 11:00 last Monday morning firemen who had put out a blaze in an apartment in a large building discovered the body of a toddler among the debris.
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Organizers will also be implementing additional safety measures including bomb-sniffing dogs and searches, and have stationed 50 extra people at the entrance alongside 400 security personnel and multiple police, lifeguards, and firemen.
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The street remained closed for nearly two hours while approximately 25 firemen and a handful DreiMeister employees cleaned the street with hot water, a roofing torch, shovels, and "Muskelkraft" (German for elbow grease).
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Andrea Walls, writer and resident of the neighborhood: The building is on fire, with firemen on the scene, and everyone agrees not to fight the fire and to allow 60 homes to burn.
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In a small painting entitled "I Really Like the Way Firemen Smell" (1988), Wong describes his fixation with remarkable erotic candor: I really like the way fireman smell when they get off work.
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" He added: "They're the policemen, they're the firemen, they're the teachers, they're the civil servants of America today who have their money in public pension funds being managed in the U.S. equity market.
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"As firemen were looking for a gas leak in the building, a dramatic explosion took place," Interior Minister Christophe Castaner said, adding that one fireman had been buried under debris for several hours.
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In the early part of the 20th century, American Halloween costumes were usually DIY projects: homemade outfits for child-sized firemen, police officers, and clowns that looked quaint or even laughable by modern standards.
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In a recent video from Xavier García Albiol, a candidate for Prime Minister Rajoy's People's Party, firemen in Catalonia were putting up flyers demanding the freedom of the political leaders currently imprisoned in Spain.
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As many readers likely know, the novel Fahrenheit 451 is set in a future in which books are illegal, and instead of putting out fires, "firemen" hunt down caches of literature and burn them.
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In a separate incident over the weekend, a shelter for asylum seekers was set ablaze in the city of Bautzen, also in Saxony, with several spectators applauding and some hindering the work of firemen.
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Photos posted on Twitter showed fires in multiple locations across the city, and firemen attempting to put out the flames while masked protesters flung rocks and other items Valparaíso, 2017 de Mayo de 2016.
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"I was watching the firemen the other day and they were raking areas, they were raking areas where the fire was right over there," the president remarked in the interview, according to The Hill.
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The amount that should be paid the police or firemen and like employees in New York City should be fixed and determined by the proper departments in that city rather than at the Capitol.
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Police and firemen were among around 420 personnel participating in the exercise, held in front of the Olympic Stadium at Pyeongchang, just 80 km (50 miles) from the heavily fortified border with North Korea.
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"Since yesterday it's just been a deluge," said Jerome Coiffier, an inhabitant of Longjumeau, less than 20 km (8.603 miles) south of Paris, where firemen wading thigh-deep in water rescued inhabitants using inflatable boats.
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Some of the most outlandish and ironic moments are drawn from actual fact, such as firemen dousing the flame in water and one of them touching a piece of exposed graphite with his bare hands.
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His smart home tells him that it was a misconception that firemen ever extinguished fires, and his boss tells him that people are "made equal by the fire," and that when they're equal, they're happy.
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Maria told the news outlet that she begged the firemen to help upon their arrival and even told her daughter to "fight like a warrior" before she was transported to Children's Medical Center in Dallas.
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Terrorism, and the widespread belief that President Barack Obama's progressive agenda is naive, have fuelled strong support for Donald Trump in the Redoubt, which has a disproportionately large population of former policemen, firemen and soldiers.
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Lyon, France (Reuters) - A large fire broke has broken out on the rooftop of a university in the French city of Lyon and firemen are on the scene, the Lyon 1 faculty said on Thursday.
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"When people write 'never forget 9/11,' to me it's all these people — the 343 firemen who died on 9/11 and everyone else — but these guys are dying, how many a day?" she says.
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It's like if your house is on fire, and the firemen are all there, and they agree that the flames are presently consuming your center hall colonial, but the fire chief keeps tweeting, 'Fake news.
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At least 35 people were killed when a bridge collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa, police said on Wednesday after firemen worked through the night looking for any survivors buried under the rubble.
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Some used it to demonstrate how a Muslim neighborhood is just an American neighborhood: In #MyMuslimNeighborhood the firemen live next door to us with a dog named 'Freckles' & the police academy is down the street.
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To make sure he had adequate oxygen supply, the firemen first forcibly separated the drum from the washing machine frame, and then carefully broke it while the man's head was still inside, according to the statement.
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Afterwards, the girls claimed they had dozed off and woken up when "the house was suddenly on fire," but the firemen concluded that a burning candle had been moved to a spot right below the curtains.
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The Sky Net shells might be the cheapest and most practical in an isolated setting, like the Arizona firemen whose helicopters and planes couldn't approach a forest fire in June because a hobbyist's drone hovered nearby.
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Their petition has garnered more than 500 signatures from community members including firemen and police officers, and has reached the desks of Canadian Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, Ontario Premier, Kathleen Wynne and Toronto Mayor, John Tory.
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Despite the announcement, firemen decided to help callers from the building, according to Masters, who said that rescue personnel ended up evacuating about 60 people and took them to a shelter at a nearby high school.
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There's no specific release date yet for HBO's Fahrenheit 451, an adaptation of Ray Bradbury's 1953 novel about a future dystopia where books are illegal, and "firemen" are special operatives who find them and burn them.
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He has seen it used to guide firemen in emergency-rescue situations, help a hearing-impaired person have a coherent conversation, or even give those with motor skill disabilities an option to communicate through brain signals.
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On top of all that, different types of MetroCards could be issued to students, seniors, and workers like police and firemen with as many types of granular privileges as deemed necessary by the almighty MetroCard programmers.
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"I believe it was three firemen went and pulled a man out and we were really upset because we did not know anybody was in there," one neighbor who was watching the rescue told the station.
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At a suburban Mexico City house where beehives sit in long, damp grass, Pena said the organisation wants to train the city's firemen to handle the sensitive insects correctly and stop swarms getting out of control.
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He took a video showing how the crowd at the arrivals area burst into a spontaneous round of applause as the firemen started streaming in with their bags of gear, ready to get down to work.
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Earlier in the day, when her car—in fact, her ex-husband's Ford Galaxy—burst into flames in a parking lot, the firemen extinguished the blaze, so what better way to give thanks for services rendered?
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For example, the very strong returns we generate, particularly in the current low interest rate environment, enabled teachers, police officers, firemen and other public and corporate sector employees to retire with sufficient savings and secure pensions.
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Pictures posted on the internet also showed firemen trying to extinguish a blaze in an office building in central Tripoli belonging to Mellitah Oil and Gas, a joint venture between Libya's National Oil Corporation and Italy's Eni.
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The importance of this legendary hotel in Parisian lore may be part of the reason why the city s fire department sent 60 firemen and 15 firetrucks to battle the blaze that broke out at 7 a.m.
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According to the local Padua news outlet Il Mattino di Padova, both the woman and her local firemen were embarrassed as she admitted she had lost the key to the padlock that opened the iron sex cage.
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I got over to the side of the fire truck, knocked on the doors ... and two firemen came out, picked me up and put me in their fire engine and put a fire blanket on the windows.
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Firemen found the bodies of three women in the basement of a flooded house in Simbach am Inn 120 km (75 miles) east of Munich, and the body of a man at another property in the town.
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All the old regulars were there: Buddy the blind contractor, Father Vincent and his cabal of vampires, a half-dozen go-gos from Coyote Ugly and three others hired to dance, bikers and firemen, punks and metalheads.
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WARSAW (Reuters) - More than 20,000 policemen, firemen, border and prison guards gathered on Tuesday in Warsaw to decry "outrageous" working conditions and demand pay rises, in what they described as the biggest protest in Polish police history.
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He co-founded Killing Joke in 1113, is one half of The Firemen (the other half being Paul McCartney), and produces as Youth—a moniker under which he has worked with everyone from Pink Floyd to The Sugarcubes.
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Magic Mike Live trolls other stripping shows, making fun of the typical cliches (strippers dressed as firemen, cowboys and sailors.) When the performers actually are wearing clothes at Magic Mike, they are typically donning jeans and t-shirts.
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Fueled by the gusting winds of autumn in northern California known as "El Diablo", the fire engulfed the town so quickly it caused water mains to burst, leaving firemen with no water to douse the flames, he said.
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Late last year, about a month after the incident Jordan witnessed, the company also introduced a "critical safety concern" button, which makes it easier for teachers to alert the Firemen if they think a child is in danger.
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"My biggest concern is complete and utter disrespect that he has shown to the first responders, the firemen, the police," Rosenello said, citing dramatic video of first responders in waist-deep water and rescuing people from flooded cars.
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"If you were to ask the pensioners and you were to ask our clients, who are teachers or firemen, whether we've contributed to their well-being, they would say that they, we, contribute," he told NPR last week.
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Policemen, firemen, athletes and workers marched along Banja Luka's streets while Serb members of the Bosnian army stood aside, after being warned by the Sarajevo-based defense ministry and by NATO that their presence would be deemed illegal.
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Pictures posted on the internet also showed firemen trying to extinguish a blaze in an office building in central Tripoli belonging to Mellitah Oil and Gas, a joint venture between Libya's National Oil Corporation and Italy's Eni (ENI.MI).
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" And in "Fireman Meets Samurai Sword" firemen advise, "Let's get out of here alive at the end of each day"—because, like the rapper-rocker sez to the recovering crack addict, "Every Day Above Ground Is a Good Day.
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"The Last Memory" is an intense vision layered with charcoal rubbings of images of a child being strangled by a screaming soldier, firemen with hoses, collapsing bricks, white men in ties and sunglasses, and black women burning in flames.
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If your police officers, firemen, soldiers, Marines, sailors or airmen need equipment, uniforms, weapons, ammunition, body armor, vehicles, transportation or any of the myriad other things we provide them with so they can serve us, let the dummies pay!
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MARSEILLE, Aug 10 (Reuters) - Several wild fires broke out in various parts of southern France on Wednesday, causing a major firefighting operation in which four firemen were injured, three of them seriously, the interior ministry said in a statement.
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MILAN, Aug 15 (Reuters) - At least 35 people were killed when a bridge collapsed in the Italian port city of Genoa, police said on Wednesday after firemen worked through the night looking for any survivors buried under the rubble.
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Firemen have their overalls, doctors wear scrubs, and if you're a supermodel, more often than not your work ensemble consists of little more than a black thong and a handful of accessories, as Bella Hadid demonstrated in her latest Instagram post.
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It operates a deferred-retirement option plan (DROP) which allows police and firemen who have qualified for retirement to keep working, while their benefits are kept in a separate account earning an interest rate that has been 8-10% a year.
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Firemen rushed to rescue costumed dancers caught in the tangled top section of the Unidos da Tijuca samba school, which lost precious time and points in the 75-minute competition down the half-mile parade ground known as the Sambadrome.
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SAO PAULO, May 1 (Reuters) - A 26-floor building engulfed in flames collapsed in the center of Brazil's largest city early on Tuesday and firemen said at least one person was killed as he was being rescued, Globo TV reported.
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Tall, strong and fearless, he spent 22008 years in the fire service in Southern California and earned a Medal of Valor for rescuing two firemen who had been buried under a collapsed wall while fighting a commercial fire in 113.
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Yet the notion of "firemen" whose job is to burn books and stamp out learning doesn't ignite in the way that director/co-writer Ramin Bahrani hoped, or carry the level of real-world relevance to which it clearly aspires.
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Instead, his refusal to show respect for the nation is an insult to the thousands of working Americans who go to work daily — many of them risking their lives as cops, soldiers, firemen, nurses and teachers — for a much smaller paycheck.
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"A railroad is the architect of progress," he said in a speech at the Grand Lodge of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen in 1877, the year the President of the United States sent federal troops to crush a railroad workers' strike.
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As railroads adopted technologies such as diesel-electric engines and automatic air brakes – eliminating the need for positions such as firemen and brakemen – at the time labor nevertheless claimed that any reduction in train crew staffing would pose serious safety risks.
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"I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen, down on 7-11, down at the World Trade Center, right after it came down, and I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action," he said.
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But by the early 1890s he had come to feel that craft unionism, which focused exclusively on the organization of skilled workers like the locomotive firemen (almost entirely white, native-born and male) was a dead end for the labor movement.
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The cathedral spire was destroyed and its roof gutted but the bell towers were still standing and many valuable art works were saved after more than 400 firemen worked to contain the blaze, finally quelling it 14 hours after it began.
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The audience is overwhelmingly older and white with many men in khakis and navy blue jackets plus a smattering of the kind of middle-class residents — police officers and firemen and others — that I and my siblings grew up with.
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It's Welcome to Night Vale by way of NPR — that is, it sounds like a news program, if the news were covering a town full of deeply surreal and discordant weirdness, from faceless firemen to terrifying wooden shapes in the forest.
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"Mr Trump unearths a shocking fact Open all hours"It's very close to my heart because I was down there, and I watched our police and our firemen down at 7-Eleven…and I saw the greatest people I've ever seen in action.
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Two is they don't interact with society where the people that support our services and our most critical infrastructure, including those that serve — and whether it's police, firemen, or fire people, Air Force, Marines, pick your favorite — they don't meet those people.
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"The most shocking thing was that the hold was packed with five people per square meter," said Romano, who led a team of 348 firemen to extract the victims from the hold, which prosecutors believed was locked at the time of the shipwreck.
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A quick perusal of the "subjects in the archive" tab at the SMH website reveals something of the scope and breadth of the situation, with sections pertaining to Aboriginal people, to Actors, Artists and art, Fires and firemen, Motor cars, and Yachting.
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THEY'RE THE POLICEMEN, THEY'RE THE FIREMEN AND THE TEACHERS, THEY'RE THE CIVIL SERVANTS OF AMERICA TODAY THAT HAVE THEIR MONEY IN PUBLIC PENSION FUNDS BEING MANAGED IN THE U.S. EQUITY MARKET SO YES WE'RE HELPING AMERICANS BY DELIVERING RETURNS BACK TO THEM.
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After a jungle-themed excursion for their second birthday, a museum party (with mechanical polar bears!) for their third and a palace firemen visit last year, something a little more special was going to be required to ring in their fifth birthday.
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He turned to a childhood friend and New York City firefighter, Joseph Gonzalez, part of an all-volunteer band of roofers, carpenters, police officers and firemen already on the island providing aid through the non-profit HEART 9/93 (Healing Emergency Aid Response Team).
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Since it is mounted on an essential piece of equipment, every member of a rescue team gets one, which it's hoped will increase safety as it means firemen can see for themselves, rather than rely on voice indications from a team leader wielding the camera.
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When their bathroom ceiling caved in last February, the firemen who arrived were concerned; Ruth was 91 and had dementia; Ed, 93, was clearly struggling to take care of her and the last of their many beagles — this one hadn't left the apartment for months.
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"We send our deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who have tragically lost their lives, and the brave firemen who continue to risk their own lives to save the lives of others," said William, the second in line to the throne.
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Civil service unions try to assure teachers, cops and firemen are paid fairly but also assure that they are protected when a spurious complaint is brought against them or a political appointee wants to fire them for optics, despite what may be right or wrong.
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As emergency services rushed to the Maelbeek station this morning to escort the injured to safety, clouds of smoke had already enveloped the southern half of the European Quarter, where medics and firemen disappeared into the smoke, bringing back the injured covered in dust and blood.
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"Sean is very interested in elements of sciences and mysticism, and I tend to write from a more human element," Claypool says, citing his history of writing from a blue-collar place, his songs narrating the stories of meth-head tweakers, firemen, and race car drivers.
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About 1,200 firemen battled the blazes, backed up by firefighting airplanes, Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told French newschannel BFM TV. One of the fires affected the town of Fos-sur-Mer, 40 km (25 miles) northwest of Marseille, France's second-biggest city where petrochemical plants are located.
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All these men reported to the conductors, who had the top job, and, on trains owned by George Mortimer Pullman, one of the richest men in the United States, all of them—the engineers, the firemen, the brakemen, the switchmen, and even the scrapers—outranked the porters.
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And three, maybe most important, we begin to see large numbers of people—in particular nurses, home health care providers, doctors, policemen, firemen, and teachers who have had the disease—are immune, and we have tested them to know that they are not infectious any longer.
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"They were playing a shell game of such epic proportions that years later, to unwind this, the city had to take money from people who serve, firemen, policemen, in order to replenish those capital projects," Amie Riggle Berlin, senior trial counsel for the SEC said in her closing argument.
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Read: Watch Three Buddhist Monks Fight in Front of a Temple We are more than a decade into the 21st century, a fantastical time once imagined to be a utopia of flying firemen and underwater whale buses, but instead brought the world fast-food saunas and unqualified presidential candidates.
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"Fahrenheit 451," which was first adapted by filmmaker Francois Truffaut in 1966 and screened out of competition this year at the Cannes Film Festival, tells the story of Montag and his superior Captain Beatty, played by Michael Shannon, who work as "firemen" enforcing laws against literature, art and history.
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Five days after Hurricane Maria devastated Puerto Rico in September of 2017, Bill Keegan, a retired lieutenant with the Port Authority Police of New York, and a band of New York City firemen, police officers and tradesmen from his nonprofit HEART 9/11 were there on the ground to help.
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That's not the case just a few miles in any given direction, where policemen block off roads so firemen can work in 24-hour shifts to contain more than a dozen wildfires that have killed at least 17, and destroyed more than 1,500 buildings across a combined 115,000 acres of land.
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Anyone who lived in downtown Manhattan during 9/11 remember to this day the feeling of being all in together as complete strangers would pause at the local elementary school where kids had hung up thank yous to the local firemen, many of whom perished while working to save others.
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Moving to New York from San Francisco in 1978, Wong painted his Lower East Side neighborhood and neighbors — poets and prisoners, addicts and immigrants, street kids and firemen — with a mix of compassion and matter-of-factness that provides uncanny insight into the time and place in which they were made.
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If they were lucky, and lived long enough, firemen usually became engineers, which was safer than being a switchman or a brakeman, jobs that involved working on the tracks next to a moving train, or racing across its top, in any weather, at the risk of toppling off and getting run over.
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Firemen continued to fight the fire that spread to an adjacent building that had been evacuated and was not in danger of collapsing, Sao Paulo Fire Brigade Lieutenant André Elias told Globo TV. The fireman said the cause of the fire on the sixth-floor was still unknown and there could be more victims.
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In the wake of the Panic of 1873, he lost his job at Vandalia and tramped to East St. Louis looking for work; then, homesick, he tramped back to Terre Haute, where, in 1875, he took a job as a labor organizer, and, later, as a magazine editor, for the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen.
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In one laminated black-and-white picture, local firemen pose in front of a fighter plane that landed on the lake ice during a military exercise before World War II. In another, more recent photograph, Miyasaka and a group of local leaders stand precariously on the lake to examine an ice fracture beneath their gumboots.
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"When you're walking through the house and it's just charred and black as black everywhere you look and there's water still dripping everywhere and the firemen have left…and I remember thinking, 'I was just in here this morning getting ready for school and now it's just — '" Continuing, he added that just thinking about it gave him chills.
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Not at this moment, because I really believe in, you know, smelling the people who are sitting next you in the Pavilion, sweating in the summer here, and to see how the different scenes interact with each other; you know, I don't want the firemen to just be at home on their computers watching their own movie.
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It is designed to help provide medical care for more than 95,000 firemen, police officers and other first responders and laborers who worked at the site of the destroyed World Trade Center twin towers in New York, the damaged Pentagon just outside Washington and a field in western Pennsylvania where one of the planes crashed after passengers fought with hijackers.
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This is the imagery of Wong's neighborhood: Storefronts featuring Chinese characters and Spanish; the variegated concrete of prison cells that form the backdrop for a Renaissance-style annunciation; an elegy for a handball court; a paean to the "hickory smoked rubber and B.O." scent, as the artist once described it, of firemen coming back from work; and above all, expanses of brick, each slab and joint individuated.
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Playlist: "What's That You're Doing" (with Stevie Wonder) / "Only One" (with Kanye West) / "The Girl Is Mine" (with Michael Jackson) / "You Want Her Too" (with Elvis Costello) / "Ebony and Ivory" (with Stevie Wonder) / "Sing the Changes" (with Youth, as The Firemen) / "FourFiveSeconds" (with Rihanna and Kanye West) / "Out of Sight" (with The Bloody Beetroots) / "Say Say Say" (with Michael Jackson) / "Cut Me Some Slack" (with Nirvana) Spotify | Apple Music
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And to the police officers, and the firemen, and the first responders, the heroes who rushed in to burning buildings instead of out of burning buildings, the last seven years of having a president, having an attorney general that demonizes you, that vilifies you, that sides with the criminals land looters instead of the brave men and women of law enforcement, that will end on January 20, 2017.
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