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firefighter

[fahyuhr-fahy-ter] / ˈfaɪərˌfaɪ tɛr /
NOUN
fireman
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He only knows it had a firefighter who meets a girl with cats.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 4, 2026

Indonesian schoolchildren prayed for rain on Thursday as another firefighter lost his life battling drought-fuelled blazes consuming forests and peatlands and blanketing parts of Southeast Asia in a sickening haze.

From Barron's ● Oct. 22, 2026

Fauzi Rahman, another firefighter in Palangkaraya, highlighted this as one of the main difficulties confronting him and his peers.

From BBC ● Oct. 20, 2026

With some formal firefighter training and background checks, volunteers commit to following fire officials’ orders, helping residents evacuate and putting out spot fires, while leaving the ferocious front-line flames to the professionals.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 17, 2026

His son wanted to be a firefighter, but didn’t get the job.

From "Speak" by Laurie Halse Anderson

Winston Bowen quietly watched as New York firefighters looked for survivors in the rubble of a collapsed building in Brooklyn, after a deadly tragedy that he blamed on "careless" developers leading rapid gentrification.

From Barron's ● Nov. 12, 2026

The city's fire commissioner, Lillian Bonsignore, said firefighters were on the scene within minutes and called their actions "incredibly heroic".

From BBC ● Nov. 12, 2026

Three firefighters were among the injured, Mamdani said.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 12, 2026

The union pointed to a motion written by Councilmember Heather Hutt and Councilmember Park in May, which sought to explore giving firefighters extra pension credit for mandatory overtime.

From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 12, 2026

A crew of firefighters was packing up their equipment, getting ready to move out.

From "The Son of Neptune" by Rick Riordan


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