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2009 Table Mountain Fire

The day following the fire, four helicopters, including a defence force Atlas Oryx, were called in at dawn to water-bomb the fire, and to lift a team of firefighters high onto the mountain.

62d Airlift Wing

62 AW aircraft were also used that year to transport firefighters and supplies to Wyoming to fight major forest fires in Yellowstone National Park.

Andrée Watters

Watters' brother Patrick, who worked as a firefighter in Alberta, Canada, was killed in July 2007 in a helicopter crash while he and several hundred other firefighters combated a major forest fire near Fort McMurray in northern Alberta.

Broadford, Victoria

On the night of 9 January 2008 firefighters were called to a blaze at the Broadford RSL, but there was little crews could do to save the weatherboard hall.

Eric A. McAfee

In 2005, McAfee and longtime friend, Bob Comes, used their plane to transport firefighters from Saratoga and San Jose along with officials from CityTeam Ministries, a San Jose–based nonprofit Christian ministry that helps the poor, to areas affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Ernest Lough

He appeared as a fire control operator in a wartime propaganda film about the fire service in London titled Fires Were Started, which was filmed using actual firefighters rather than professional actors.

Erron Kinney

In 2004, Tennessee governor Phil Bredesen appointed him to a seven-year term with the Tennessee State Firefighting Commission, an organization that tests and certifies firefighters in the state.

Glen Kolkmeyer

He was a former president of Missouri Propane Gas Commission, Missouri Propane Gas Association and Lafayette County Firefighters Association.

Helena National Forest

The forest was the site of the 1949 Mann Gulch fire, which claimed the lives of 13 firefighters and which was the subject of both Norman Maclean's book Young Men and Fire and James Keelaghan's folk song "Cold Missouri Waters."

History of the Scottish Socialist Party

The SSP was active in the anti-war movement and the firefighters' dispute, and gained five additional regional list MSPs across Scotland: Frances Curran; Rosie Kane; Carolyn Leckie; Colin Fox; and Rosemary Byrne.

Jeff Adachi

When Adachi went to pay his respects at the June, 2011 funeral services honoring San Francisco firefighters, Lt. Vincent Perez and Anthony Valerio who were killed in a house fire in San Francisco's Diamond Heights neighborhood, he was asked to leave by a firefighter.

Jeff Tobolski

During the election he was endorsed by Chicago Federation of Labor, Service Employees International Union, Local 73, Chicago Firefighters Union, Local 2, LIUNA, Local 225, the Italian American Political Coalition and the Hispanic Illinois State Law Enforcement Association (HISLEA).

Joe Rosenthal

Reporters extensively interviewed Rosenthal after September 11, 2001, when Thomas E. Franklin shot a similar iconic photograph, Ground Zero Spirit, depicting the raising of the flag by three firefighters at the World Trade Center.

Life net

Researcher Cecil Adams has concluded that the life net was no longer used after 1983, and writes that they are not mentioned in current training manuals for firefighters.

During the Hotel Polen fire in Amsterdam on May 9, 1977, firefighters could not successfully deploy a life net in a narrow, congested alley.

Magadan-13 Airport

In the 1970s and 1980s it was a busy airport for charter operations (Antonov An-2, Mi-4, Mi-8, etc.) which served geological expeditions, firefighters, and local transport routes.

National Firefighters Memorial

The Princess Royal, patron of the Firefighters' Memorial Charitable Trust, attended a service and ceremony of re-dedication on 16 September 2003.

Princeton Reunions

Classes celebrating a major reunion (multiples of five—-5th, 10th, and so on) often wear themed costumes, which have ranged from Dutch boys and Roman legionnaires to firefighters and Uncle Sam look-alikes.

Rudy Giuliani: Urban Legend

In the video, New York City Uniformed Firefighters Association president Stephen Cassidy said, "The things that we needed to do our jobs even better, we didn't have, because of his administration." He added, "On the heroic memory of 343 dead firefighters, he wants to run for president of the United States. It's a disgrace."

Salerno Costa d'Amalfi Airport

The airport was exclusively used by the Carabinieri, Firefighters, flight and parachuting school and small private jets until 2007.
The airport was then developed to accommodate civil traffic on a large scale, with four check-in desks, two boarding areas, luggage belts and waiting rooms.

Schultz Fire

On June 29, firefighters continued to spray water on Doyle Peak.

St. Florian, Alabama

However historians believe the city was named after the patron saint of Firefighters, Saint Florian.

Strike Team

Strike Team, a special unit of firefighters in South Australia's Country Fire Service, and Victoria's Country Fire Authority, in Victoria a Strike Team usually refers to a unit of five appliances used to fight large, campaign-sized wildfires such as those on Black Saturday.

Tatra 17

One of them remains in application as honorary fire engine of Svatý Jan nad Malší firefighters.

Treasure Cay Airport

The aircraft, which was attempting to take off for a flight to Fort Pierce, Florida, was fully engulfed in flames when firefighters reached the crash site.

Troy Yocum

On May 26, 2011, Yocum was welcomed to Washington, DC by Congressman John Yarmuth (D-KY) accompanied by firefighters, veterans, and a police escort.

Uruapan

Also, the firefighters of Uruapan received personal equipment and vehicles from Culver City a few years ago to do a better job; they also received equipment from the Kansas City Fire Department.

Wildland Firefighters National Monument

In 1994, fourteen firefighters were killed fighting the South Canyon Fire in Colorado.

Young Men and Fire

Norman Maclean's son, John Norman Maclean, wrote Fire on the Mountain (1999 book) that told a very similar story about the South Canyon Fire on Storm King Mountain on July 6, 1994 in Colorado, which took the lives of 14 firefighters.


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