Which is why the Qualcomm engineer found himself one Friday in September rattling down a steep fire road in the Trinity Wilderness of northern California on his mountain bike.
Xhem Krasniqi, 31, was hit once in the abdomen after a gunman opened fire in Church Road on Saturday.
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Five children died in a fire at their home in Victory Road, Allenton, Derby.
They leave out Colin Ferguson, the black man who opened fire in a Long Island Rail Road train in 1993, killing 6 and wounding 19.
Jade Philpott, 10, and her brothers John, nine, Jack, eight, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died in a fire at their home in Victory Road, Allenton, on 11 May.
Ewan Williamson, 35, was killed while tackling a fire in the Balmoral Bar on Dalry Road in July 2009.
Critics say that the rubber meets the road when a company must fire or lay off a talented individual.
The 35-year-old was killed while tackling a fire in the Balmoral Bar on Dalry Road on 12 July 2009.
At the same time, police were called to reports of shots and a car being set on fire on Moorland Road in Maghull.
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Stephanie Wojak, 15, and her foster brother Ben McAuliffe, eight, died after being rescued from a fire at their home in Ellacombe Church Road, Torquay, on 17 October.
They are now dug in on high ground and are able to fire on any vehicles using a strategically valuable road near the town of Kargil.
Overhead video from CNN affiliate KTLA showed firefighters working to douse a fire as most of the plane, including a visible part of its wing, lay in the middle of a road.
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Emergency services were called after reports that a man had been assaulted in Petershill Road, near the fire station, at 22:30.
When the driver was hit, the Maserati continued into the intersection of the boulevard and Flamingo Road and collided with a taxi, which caught fire.
Emergency services were called to the Springburn area after reports that a man had been assaulted in Petershill Road, near the fire station, at 22:30.
The Maserati continued into the intersection with Flamingo Road and collided with a taxi, which caught fire, killing cab driver Michael Boldon, CNN affiliate KVVU said.
The Maserati continued into the intersection of the boulevard and Flamingo Road and collided with a taxi, which caught fire, killing cab driver Michael Boldon, CNN affiliate KVVU said.
The Maserati continued into the intersection of the boulevard and Flamingo Road and collided with a taxi, which caught fire, killing cab driver Michael Boldon, 62, CNN affiliate KVVU said.
France and Italy promised better safety checks for road tunnels after at least 40 people died when a lorry caught fire in a tunnel under Mont Blanc .
The group then walked to Victory Road, where the fire happened, and joined hands to form a human chain along the street.
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Like Pete said, we spent ten years on the road performing thousands of times and learned by a process of trial by fire.
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There was also a report of flooding to homes in Pandy Road in Bedwas, Caerphilly, with fire crews unblocking drains on Saturday afternoon.
Fire crews also had to remove a car which got stuck in flood water on Meaford Road.
At its height the timber-framed block of flats on Gershwin Road, Basingstoke, was "in danger of total collapse", a fire service spokesman said.
When Philpott set fire to his house in Victory Road, Derby, he was facing trial over a road rage incident in which he punched a motorist in the face.
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The battered truck was left in the middle of a narrow road on the border of Helmand and Kandahar provinces for several days after insurgents opened fire on it.
Fire crews were also involved in the incidents overnight and were called to tackle a blaze in Brunswick Road.
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Specialist fire crews have now been called to the road where the snow-covered body of a young woman was found on Saturday morning.
Rebels opened fire on an armoured car carrying aid workers and burnt out a second vehicle on a main lakeside road south of Bujumbura, humanitarian staff said on Thursday.
We're in a burned-out area of Yellowstone National Park, miles from any road, surrounded by hundreds of acres of fire-blackened lodgepole pines, the hooves of our 17-animal pack train kicking up dust.
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