• Relatively little of that goes to the Nomex-clad fire-fighters shown battling heroically on the evening news.

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  • As search-and-rescue teams checked the conditions were safe enough for a diving team, fire-fighters combed the riverbank.

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  • Rather inconveniently, some of the paratroopers destined for the Gulf have this week been covering for striking fire-fighters.

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  • Only about 90 people live in Vernon, many of them cops and fire-fighters.

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  • It is hoped that it could provided vital communication between soldiers in the field or fire-fighters, displaying warnings when normal radios can't be used.

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  • Retained Fire-fighters respond to emergency incidents including fires, road traffic collisions and other specialist service calls such as chemical spills, collapsed buildings and other types of rescues.

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  • Yet spending cuts are now resulting in "thousands of fire-fighters losing their jobs, dozens of fire stations closing, and response times going through the roof", he said.

    BBC: Communities questions

  • Anyone convicted of threatening politicians or employees of the state such as fire-fighters or doctors and their families faces two years in prison and a fine of 30, 000 euros.

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  • The fires started on Christmas Day and have continued ever since, despite the efforts of thousands of fire-fighters in New South Wales, and reinforcements from other Australian states and New Zealand.

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  • As a tactile set of symbols it is believed that the technology could also be used by fire-fighters to communicate with each other in smoke-filled buildings when hand or radio communication is not possible.

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  • The kind of details the paramedic and fire-fighters will give out include the work involved in cutting someone free from a wrecked car, the risk of a vehicle bursting into flames with people trapped inside and the kind of injuries sustained by different parts of the body in a crash.

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  • But there are some privately run fire fighters - for example, at East Midlands Airport.

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  • Orkney and Shetland MP Alistair Carmichael said 321 of Scotland's 391 fire stations were staffed by part-time retained fire fighters.

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  • Mr. Laub, who didn't disclose any potential acquisitions from Tribeca, singled out a few documentaries for attracting strong interest from his colleagues, including "Don't Stop Believin'" and two titles that focus on social issues: "Burn, " an audience award-winner about Detroit fire fighters, and "Revisionaries, " which won a special jury prize for its close-up on the ideological battles dividing the State Board of Education in Texas.

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  • But in his memo, Mr. Cook admits this is a long shot, as is a challenge based on technicalities like the law's carve-out for police and fire fighters.

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  • "The firefighters who responded today were performing a selfless, meaningful service to their community, unaware that a cold-hearted maniac was planning to ambush them and take their lives, " said Harold Schaitberger, general president of the Washington-based International Association of Fire Fighters.

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  • The U.N. monitors, whose numbers gradually rose to about 300, were sent in to ensure that both government and opposition fighters were abiding by the cease-fire and other elements of Annan's peace plan.

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  • Fire fighters used breathing apparatus to allow them to work in the smoke-filled section of the building.

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  • In addition to providing a nationwide, interoperable network for Public Safety for the first time, it would provide the ability to view real-time video, check license plates in real time, and download building layouts so fire fighters could see how the building is laid out and if there are any hazardous materials inside.

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