firefighter
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"I used to cry before I went to work every day, because I just felt like a firefighter."
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
He and Olivia Walker, a 30-year-old firefighter, had come to Léon from Clearfield, Utah.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 23, 2026
"We're going to stay until the last person is recovered," firefighter corporal Javier Jimenez told AFP.
From Barron's ● Aug. 16, 2026
But a Cal Fire firefighter stepped in on Tuesday, escorting a staff member to the property so she could release the critically endangered birds back into the wild.
From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 13, 2026
In Sequim your butcher might also be the volunteer firefighter who saved your house or barn, as well as the neighbor who helped you rebuild it.
From "The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics" by Daniel James Brown
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I remember the bravery of the New York firefighters and police.
From Salon ● Sep. 8, 2026
Toiling around the clock, haggard Indonesian firefighters on Borneo island cannot keep up with the blazes devouring landscapes and shrouding communities in a cloying haze.
From Barron's ● Sep. 6, 2026
Deputies and Los Angeles County firefighters responded at 2:30 a.m.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 5, 2026
“When we were little,” Natalie explains, “my sisters’ stuffed animals became astronauts, firefighters and chefs.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 4, 2026
The kids emerged from the Greystone house into a neighborhood swarming with police and firefighters.
From "The Strangers" by Margaret Peterson Haddix
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