Crossword clues for firefighter
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
firefighter \fire"fight`er\, fire fighter \fire" fight`er\(f[imac]r"f[imac]`t[~e]r), n. A person whose occupation it is to go to the scene of an unwanted fire and extinguish it; a member of a fire company; a fireman[1] or a woman who fights fires.
Note: Some towns have few or no professional firefighters, and fire suppression is conducted mostly by groups of volunteers, called volunteer firefighters. The term fireman[1] was at one time synonymous with firefighter, until women began to engage in the same occupation.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
n. A person who puts out fires.
WordNet
n. a member of a fire department who tries to extinguish fires [syn: fireman, fire fighter, fire-eater]
Wikipedia
A firefighter (historically fireman) is a rescuer extensively trained in firefighting, primarily to extinguish hazardous fires that threaten property and civilian or natural populations, and to rescue people from dangerous situations, like collapsed or burning buildings or crashed vehicles. In some areas, they are also trained in Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and operate ambulances in addition to being a firefighter.
The complexity of modern industrialized life with a greater prominence of hazards has created an increase in the skills needed in firefighting technology and a broadening of the firefighter-rescuer's remit. The fire service, or fire and rescue service, also known in some countries as the fire brigade or fire department, is one of the three main emergency services. Firefighting and firefighters have become ubiquitous around the world, from wildlands to urban areas, and aboard ships. According to Merriam-Webster's Dictionary, the English word firefighter has been used since 1903. In recent decades it has become the preferred term, replacing fireman, since women also serve as firefighters, and also because the term fireman can have other meanings, including someone who sets, stokes, or tends fires, especially in designated fireplaces – the opposite of the firefighting role.
In many countries, while most firefighters are volunteers, firefighters may also be employed as full-time workers and paid a salary. Volunteer firefighters (who are theoretically unpaid) and retained firefighters (or auxiliary firefighters, who are paid for the specific time they are on duty, i.e., permanent part-time career firefighters) on call as required. In such countries as the United Kingdom, the use of additional retained firefighters is standard. In Portugal, for example, the use of volunteer firefighters is standard, along with career firefighters. In Australia there are volunteer brigades which are mostly unpaid rural services, although traditionally they are paid by their employers if called out during usual working hours.
Firefighter or fire fighter is a profession.
Firefighter, firefighters, fire fighter, or fire fighters may also refer to:
- Firefighter (fireboat), a U.S. National Historic Landmark
- Fire Fighter II a 2010 NYFD fire boat
- Firefighter F.D. 18, a 2004 action game
- Firefighter! Daigo of Fire Company M, a shōnen manga by Masahito Soda
- The Fire Fighters, a 1927 action film serial
- Fire Fighters (film), a 1922 silent short film
- The Fire Fighters Museum, in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada.
- "Firefighter", an episode of the television series Teletubbies
Firefighter is a 1986 television film directed by Robert Michael Lewis. The film is based on the true story of Cindy Fralick, the first female firefighter of the Los Angeles County Fire Department.
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.