With the exception of the firefighter in Tasmania, however, no deaths have yet been reported.
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And no, firing the firefighter is never the best way to put out and prevent fires.
Mr. Uddin, the firefighter, said his team had been trying since morning to rescue the trapped survivor.
Jason Evans, spokesman for Dallas Fire Rescue, identified the firefighter as Stanley Wilson.
Fire Brigade Union (FBU) officials say they returned to work after securing an agreement with management over the firefighter who was suspended.
One, called Billy Blazes, is made by Fisher Price, and all of the proceeds from it will go to the Firefighter Safety Education Fund.
The fire service said the firefighter has been discharged from hospital.
As spending gaps loom, cuts to the firefighter budget are still being considered, as well as slashing funding for the streets department and recreation centers.
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It is the firefighter's courage to storm a stairway filled with smoke, but also a parent's willingness to nurture a child, that finally decides our fate.
The firefighter told jurors at Lambeth Town Hall that he told a colleague to direct a jet of water at a fire on the west side of the building.
"The firefighters are having to look to each other, look to their families, look to their faith and look to the firefighter support network to get through it, " an emotional Lozano said.
Firefighters around the country are instructed on how to respond to violent scenarios -- wait for police to secure the scene so that the firefighters can do their jobs saving lives and property -- but that instruction presumes the firefighter has already noticed something amiss, Stittleburg said.
The former firefighter will make his way along the underwater shelves and ledges that run around the banks of the loch, about 30ft below the surface, at two miles a day.
She did not have information on the status of the injured firefighter.
"I'm pretty sure that we have two DOAs" -- the term for dead on arrival -- "on the street, " the wounded firefighter said.
City officials have said that in Carlsbad, the average firefighter or police officer typically retires at age 55 and has 28 years of service.
Neighbors said all five had gone inside the home -- a two-story structure, one of many in the neighborhood about 30 miles northeast of Atlanta -- with a stretcher, then the single firefighter ran out about 30 minutes later.
In Hillsboro, Texas, about 15 miles from West, hotels and storefront windows displayed fliers celebrating the life of firefighter Jerry Chapman, who was killed fighting the blaze, an indication that the mourning and sense of grief go far beyond the close-knit community of West.
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The other slain firefighter was Tomasz Kaczowka, who was also a 911 dispatcher.
The other members of the team are firefighter Mark Stubbs, 40, from Poole, Dorset, Jonathan Gornall, 48, a journalist from London , and digital mapping specialist John Wills, 33, from Farnham in Surrey.
When some of his new Wyoming oil wells caught fire, Anschutz, who was cash-poor at the time, managed to convince the famous oil firefighter Paul (Red) Adair to go there to put them out.
Serving throughout 30 years of the Troubles in Northern Ireland, Mr Crawford said that there was not a firefighter in the province who had not been affected throughout the course of their career.
Safety is the top priority in firefighter training, said Jill McCurdy, chief of fire and aviation training for the U.S. Forest Service.
Meanwhile Warwickshire police are continuing to investigate an arson attack on the home of a firefighter in Kenilworth who had just left his wife and children to stand on the picket line in Leamington Spa.
That means, as a result of the litigation against the department's hiring practices, the FDNY will have gone five years without a probationary firefighter class entering the academy.
However, Mr Gould said if the cuts were approved, it would mean a reduction of 62 firefighter posts in the two counties since 2003.
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The idea that a full time firefighter and part time firefighter can't serve together in the same appliance is incredible, and should be just not part of it.
She was determined to take care of her husband to the end, and, perhaps because she was a firefighter, she had the resilience and the competence to do so.
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