"I am sure we get beat for some personal calls and miles here and there, " sighs the boss.
Ch Insp Tim Mairs said that some rescuers had walked for miles through heavy snow, facing "possibly 12 to 18ft drifts of snow" in some places, to reach housebound people.
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For some people, racking up frequent flier miles can border on obsession.
For five hours this Sunday, some 10 miles of normally car-crowded Los Angeles streets will be closed to vehicular traffic and turned into a massive block party for cyclists, pedestrians, joggers, even stilt-walkers.
And every tunnel only took her to dozens of other tunnels, some of which went on for miles, and ended in points of light so distant and pale they were like stars in other galaxies.
In 1967, Mr Bancoult and his family went to Mauritius - some 1200 miles away - for medical treatment, and were prevented from returning to the islands and had reluctantly remained in Mauritius ever since.
Drought has been a cause for concern in Australia, some 2, 000 miles to the west.
Some patients have to travel miles for appointments.
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It comes a week after Iran said it had successfully sent a monkey to an altitude of some 120 km (75 miles) for a sub-orbital flight.
To orchestrate his 1993 Project to Extend the Great Wall of China by 10, 000 Meters, for example, he and some assistants suspended approximately six miles of fuse in the Gobi desert, beginning where the Great Wall ended.
The students then pile on and force the driver to take them, for free, to their university, some 15km (nine miles) away on the outskirts of Kinshasa, Congo's squalid capital.
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Winner of the first race, Kenny Rackers, 27 - an estate agent from Colorado Springs in the US - said he came over especially for the event, a journey of some 4, 000 miles (6, 400km).
When eventually the floes began to break up in April 1916, Shackleton loaded his men into three small lifeboats and struck out for Elephant Island, an uninhabited speck of land some 100 miles distant.
Some are raising money for charity with an app called Charity Miles.
Many airlines do offer to reinstate miles for a fee, but the fees at some carriers are so high that paying to reopen an account doesn't make economic sense.
"If you are running more than 15 miles a week, you are doing it for some reason other than health, " said Dr. Cooper, adding that he suspects without hard evidence that extreme exercise can render a body more susceptible to cancer.
While Kogelo has changed, with a new recreation center and lodge for foreign tourists, it is still just a rural village some 260 miles (418 kilometers) west of Nairobi, the capital.
Some criminals have reportedly even offered stolen credit cards in exchange for airline miles.
If health care is concentrated in regional specialised medical centres, some patients might have to travel as far as 150 miles for outpatient surgery.
The fires (some awesome video here) created a plume of smoke that stretched for 30 miles, just skirting downtown Houston and visible on doppler radar.
On Tuesday -- two days before President Barack Obama and first lady Michelle Obama head to Waco, about 18 miles south, for a memorial service at Baylor University -- some of them stood motionless on their front lawns, taking in the devastation.
The earthquake occurred some 25 miles below the ocean floor and resulted in a tsunami warning for the coast of Miyagi prefecture.
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It's an irony that this tariff fought for so hard by some in Fort Payne will likely have its biggest impact thousands of miles away in Honduras.
Later, an observer team from the Southern African Development Community (Sadc) was held for some 45 minutes by Zanu-PF supporters at a farm about 20km (13 miles) outside Karoi.
Each night, thousands of children, some only four or five years old, leave their villages and walk for miles to the safety of Gulu, the biggest town in northern Uganda.
Concerned relatives have joined the search for some 30 fishermen from the Bashkhali area - near Chittagong and some 300km (190 miles) south-east of the capital Dhaka - who set sail last week.
Some had expected Mr Miles to recommend market-distorting tax-incentives for fixed mortgages, or the creation of a government-sponsored mortgage underwriter along the lines of America's Fannie Mae, which would put taxpayers' money at risk.
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