In the biggest high-profile incident in the U.S. in recent years, more than 3, 000 passengers aboard the Carnival Splendor were towed to shore in 2010 by a Mexican tugboat after an engine-room fire cut off the ship's electricity.
"We will not stand by and watch our fire service cut back to a Victorian age, " he said.
However, it would be a last resort to close fire stations and cut the number of fire engines.
That would be like allowing fire insurers to cut off coverage for houses once they catch on fire.
The team had hiked two miles from their base camp into the forest to cut fire lines.
Fire department personnel cut through the trains to help people from the wreckage, officials said at a press briefing.
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Torquay's second fire engine would also be cut from full time to on call, as would the second fire engine in Taunton.
The laser, which made a rapid-fire popping sound, cut cleanly and quickly through the outer shell of a hard-boiled egg.
Electricity has been restored to the Bath transmitter which feeds television and radio broadcasts to 80, 000 homes after a fire caused a power cut.
Ilfracombe's fire station faces being cut from day-crewed to on call.
Even the EU, leaders at previous climate conferences, are taking fire for refusing to cut emissions further - they're being held back by eastern European nations led by Poland.
And they are learning that when they have to cut a fire line, they have to go back and help that soil rehabilitate, because soil only burns a couple of centimeters.
Louzado took a 5 percent pay cut at the fire department, necessitated by the struggling economy.
Expect Icahn to storm in with a plan to sell off assets, fire employees, re-cut licensing deals, you name it.
Police said a convoy had delivered equipment and resources to the Tasman Peninsula - cut off by fire for several days - on Sunday.
However, this appears to have been contradicted by reports of sometimes poorly-equipped volunteers scrabbling through the rubble and the apparent starting of a fire by people trying to cut their way through the building.
Chicago Fire Chief James Joyce said he ordered power cut off to three buildings, including the one over the site of the fire.
Emergency fire and ambulance crews had to cut people out of the wreckage.
It comes after Berkshire Fire Authority agreed last year to cut operating hours and provide a service from Slough between 2000 and 0800 BST.
At a meeting of the police and crime panel to confirm the post, Mr Wilsher said he would cut back on national fire service work to "free up time".
On Wednesday, Steve Bellone, the Suffolk County executive, blamed the breach Sandy cut in an eastern Fire Island preserve, the Otis Pike Fire Island High Dunes Wilderness, for making the bay more volatile.
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Chris Gunter freed Davies down the right who cut back to Edwards to fire into the bottom right-hand corner.
To get there though, he had to shut down five factories, fire 20% of the staff and cut out half of his parts suppliers.
Hereford and Worcester Fire Service is meeting over plans to cut 32 of 322 frontline firefighter posts, including 14 of the 28 positions at Bromsgrove.
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Corbi has a contract with a local helicopter company that will help his family escape if the mountain roads are cut off by damage, fire, or smoke.
The Nets were just 14-14 after a December slump, prompting Prokhorov, their billionaire Russian owner, to cut short a winter vacation and fire Johnson.
Gunter cut in from the right to fire a speculative shot over the bar, before Ramsey scuffed his effort wide from the edge of the area.
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