firefighter
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He and Olivia Walker, a 30-year-old firefighter, had come to Léon from Clearfield, Utah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
“I want to be a firefighter in the future, hopefully go through paramedic school,” he said.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
Ryder told the president that he wants to be a firefighter someday.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 17, 2026
"We're going to stay until the last person is recovered," firefighter corporal Javier Jimenez told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
As one firefighter later put it, “From the beginning of that fatal fire, everything went wrong!”
From "The Great Fire" by Jim Murphy
A visually stunning stretch of Highway 1 in Big Sur has reopened to travelers after a 12-day closure, even as firefighters continue to battle the persistent Timber fire.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 22, 2026
The unexploded ordnance, some of which was heard going off during the dayslong effort to quench the fire, made it harder for firefighters to get close to the blaze.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
Around 350 firefighters and other emergency personnel remain deployed in the effort, as do the many farmers who mobilised in support of the operation since last week.
From Barron's ● Aug. 20, 2026
Pronto envisions unmanned tanks aiding firefighters in other former battlegrounds such as Syria and—eventually—Ukraine, part of an array of devices aiding firefighting in hazardous terrain.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 20, 2026
The firefighters chose it as the site of their last stand.
From "Seabiscuit: An American Legend" by Laura Hillenbrand
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