firefighter
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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
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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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