A member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires

Usage examples of firefighter.

How was she supposed to know that every firefighter in Boise loved to ride his motorcycle there on a Sunday afternoon for the ambiance?

From the corner of her eye Anna could see Leonard Nims planted just outside the tent flaps, the only agitation between two lines of patient firefighters.

However, a former Marine firefighter pointed out that lexan shatters fairly easily when chilled.

Deane soon discovered, firefighters had no particular eagerness to enter burning structures in any form of attire, but most especially not in something that heated up like a kettle and made them clumsy into the bargain.

Because of the wealth of ruins and artifacts on the mesa all wildfires were put out in their infancy by a crew of wildland firefighters flown in by helicopter.

About the Author Clayton Emery has been a blacksmith, a dishwasher, a schoolteacher in Australia, a carpenter, a zookeeper, a farmhand, a land surveyor, and a volunteer firefighter, among other things.

Upon further investigation, firefighters discovered remnants of precursor chemicals used in the manufacture of methamphetamines .

Special Agent Raman promised, helping Ryan into it, and disguising him as one of the several hundred firefighters roaming around.

In this culture, however, in the last fifteen years, as women have become police officers and firefighters and attorneys general in life, fictional women warriors in great numbers have been taking the tripin the form of female private eyes.

He followed these with half a dozen rounds of canister shot-leather bags of fist-sized stones that burst when fired-and cleared away all the firefighters and soldiers who were foolish enough to expose themselves.

Firefighters were present, as were other emergency service workers, but they were no match for the ferocity of the flame.

More firefighters hauled a smoke evacuator up, thrust its intake nozzle into the room, and switched it on.

Working together like firefighters maneuvering an extension ladder, they raised the tape carefully from the floor, moving it slowly so that it wouldn't kink and bend, and turned it until the top end leaned against the edge of the desk.

Places where the firefighters had used water were frozen, making the footing treacherous.

Over the last two years he's been training firefighters and getting the island councils to clean up obvious fire hazards.