firefighter

Example Sentences

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If firefighters hadn’t been ordered to leave a New Year’s Day fire before all the embers were extinguished, would flames have flared up on the same spot amid hurricane-force winds on Jan. 7, 2025?

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She said she noticed only small differences, such as “mistakes” being changed to “challenges,” and the removal of firefighters’ names.

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Looking back on the fire itself, Taylor said, “It’s so easy now to be like, ‘How dare there be a shortage of firefighters on the Eastside when that fire was on its way toward us?’

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The first draft of the after-action report said that the department’s decision not to fully staff up and pre-deploy available firefighters ahead of the ferocious winds “did not align” with policy.

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He was transported to the hospital in stable condition while 70 firefighters worked to extinguish the stubborn fire.

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