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Fireman's carry

The "fireman's carry" was once used by Judo founder Kanō Jigorō as an unexpected method to defeat a tough opponent.


Al Ferrara

Al Sr. was a New York City fireman for 20 years who later was an air conditioning technician for Chase Bank before working the gate at Jackie Gleason’s Inverrary Country Club in Florida in his retirement.

Cupid's Fireman

Cupid's Fireman is a 1920s American film directed by William A. Wellman.

Fair Haven, New Jersey

Fair Haven has an annual Fireman's Fair during the last weekend of summer including Labor Day weekend which attracts a couple of thousand people, including noted musicians Bruce Springsteen and Bon Jovi.

Fireman Radio

The commercial-free Fireman Radio was launched in celebration of McCartney's new album, Electric Arguments, and featured music from the records of McCartney himself, Wings, and the three albums created by the Fireman, as well as some surprises.

Fireman's Wedding

Fireman's Wedding is an EP by Joe Henry, released in 1994 (see 1994 in music) which followed shortly after the album release of Kindness of the World, the parent release for this EP.

Foundling Mick

After barely surviving the fire at Ragged School which separated the friends, Grip settled as a fireman on a steam vessel Vulcan, making regular trips between Dublin and the United States.

Francisco Montañés

In 2010, before he made his debuts in the top division and thinking this was not a possibility anymore, Montañés contemplated quitting football and becoming a fireman, as his father before him.

Hiroaki Aoki

He was an offshore powerboat racer along with the 1986 APBA world champion Powerboat throttleman Errol Lanier, a former Fort Lauderdale fireman who saved his life in a near fatal powerboat crash in 1979 under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Humphrey Jennings

Jennings only feature length film, the 70-minute Fires Were Started (1943), also known as I Was A Fireman, details the work of the Auxiliary Fire Service in London.

James L. Hull

Hull was born November 27, 1873 in Patoka, Illinois and after entering the navy was sent to fight in the Spanish–American War aboard the U.S.S. Concord as a fireman first class.

James Millstone

He sued Fireman's Fund Insurance Company, who refused him auto insurance after an elderly neighbor reported him to police in retaliation for having Vietnam War protestors as guests.

Jay Silverheels

On January 6, 1960, he portrayed an Indian fireman trying to extinguish a forest fire in the episode "Leap of Life" in the syndicated series, Rescue 8, starring Jim Davis and Lang Jeffries.

Jock Somerlott

For a time after their marriage the Somerlotts lived in Garrett, Indiana, where he was employed as a fireman on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, from which he retired in 1912.

John J. Byrne

John J. Byrne (1931 – March 7, 2013) was an American longtime insurance industry executive who was CEO of GEICO, White Mountains Insurance Group and Fireman's Fund.

Jumborg Ace

He will be joining forces with updated versions of Fireman (Glen-Fire) and Mirrorman (Mirror-Knight), in addition to Ultraman Zero.

Marteinn Geirsson

He is currently the precinct captain for the Reykjavík fire department and has been a fireman for over 30 years.

Mills River, North Carolina

It is home to approximately 7,000 people, and it was incorporated into a city in June, 2003, mostly thanks to the efforts of fireman Roger Snyder, who is now the mayor.

Mumbai Fire Brigade

One fireman best described the brigades' Personal protective equipment (PPE) as similar to London's circa 1950.

Natasha St-Pier

The 9 March 2012, she got married in Lit-et-Mixe in the family intimacy with her boyfriend for a year and a half, Gregory Quillacq, a Parisian fireman.

RMS Titanic Lifeboat No. 1

In a deleted scene in James Cameron's 1997 blockbuster Titanic, Sir Cosmo Duff Gordon (Martin Jarvis) and Lucille Duff Gordon (Rosalind Ayres) are shown to be sitting in Lifeboat No. 1 with their secretary and a few crew members, when Fireman Hendrickson urges them to help people in the water.

Royston Tickner

He served in the Royal Navy in World War II and from 1947 took a break from the theatre to work as a lighthouse keeper, miner, fireman and publican, before returning to acting in 1958.

Star of the Family

Adding to his troubles are: his wife runs off with a bellhop; his 17-year-old son (Michael Dudikoff) has more muscles than brains; and his crew at the firehouse are "strange" (Leo Feldman (Todd Susman) tells his mother he is a doctor instead of a fireman, Frank Rosetti (George Deloy) has only sex on the brain and Max Hernandez (Danny Mora), a Hispanic, speaks fractured English).

Thirroul Railway Depot

In 1918 John Kerr Cummins, then a 34 year old fireman stationed at Thirroul was injured when he was operating the turntable for his train at Macdonaldtown in Sydney.

Wilburn Boat Company v. Fireman's Fund Insurance Company

Appellants J.F. Wilburn, J. H. Wilburn, and L. G. Wilburn and, The Wilburn Boat Company, and Oklahoma based corporation, obtained a marine insurance policy from the Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company for liability coverage for fire among other things, of a vessel called the Wanderer.

William Morse

On that day, while Shenandoah was at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, he and Seaman John Smith jumped overboard and rescued First Class Fireman James Grady from drowning.


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