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And that's just one of the blazes that firefighters in Texas are trying to control.

It is one of three blazes that have now claimed lives of two volunteer firefighters and a pilot of a firefighting plane.

Firefighters are working 18 hours a day, around the clock, trying to make sure that they get this blaze under control.

More than 500 firefighters were working around the clock to contain the blaze, but it continued to grow.

Austrian crematorium officials have blamed a deceased woman's obesity for causing a blaze which had to be tackled by firefighters.

Firefighters today said they had located four more students trapped in a dormitory, but did not say whether they were alive or dead.

He started by winning the support of a powerful interest group, the Hillsdale firefighters'union, who had fallen out with the town council.

Soldiers and cops and firefighters, he argues, embody a notion of public service to which the rest of us are now no more than spectators.

So, he said, he did not want anyone but firefighters to go to a fire.

No, but I'm really glad there's a fire station only a few blocks away. Hey look, there's the fire engine. Here come the firefighters!

Condolences came from the White House Friday to the U. S. Forest Service following the deaths of four firefighters in a California wildfire.

The great exceptions were the police, firefighters and others who died trying to save people from the burning towers in New York.

Q But, Mr. President, I wanted to talk to you about a couple of things as it pertains to the safety and security of our firefighters.

Female drivers did not seem to mind the shirtless firefighters. Male drivers, though, felt they were getting short-changed.

One of the plane's engines caught fire but the airports' firefighters were able to quickly put it out, Gen. Paez said.

When the firefighters got there, burned toast was discovered to be responsible to have set the alarm off. The smoke was cleared with a fan.

A crisis team and a group of specialized firefighters were dispatched to take air and soil samples, he said.

In Germany, firefighters and soldiers are desperately trying to reinforce strained riverbanks.

Once part of the wall had been taken apart, firefighters helped guide Amos out with a rope.

The firefighters rapidly unload the water hose, ready to pump water to put out the fire.

The victim was still alive at this point and remained so as firefighters used a tow truck to pull him from the drain.

Local firefighters had tried to help Sasaki-san look for her aunt's body, but they moved on.

Just as firefighters were about to jerry-rig another plunger with a cable, the man called his girlfriend on his cell phone.

The city argued that it would be sued by black firefighters if it honoured the test results.

But responders like Vallebuona may not be able to take solace from this study. Prezant said the results are specific to firefighters.

Further south in Chiba prefecture, firefighters battled an out-of-control oil refinery blaze that spewed fireballs into the sky.

Firefighters said the flames, fanned by high winds and swirling air, leaped hundreds of feet in the air at times.

So we come to say how proud we are to be able to afford that opportunity to secure our firefighters.

She found a crew of New York City cops and firefighters nearby and told them there were survivors.

the firefighters got the man down and then rang the doorbell to awaken the girlfriend and let him in.

In London, masked looters plundered stores and burned buildings, often without police officers or firefighters in sight.

Firefighters off the work being carried out, put the rest of the fire is still burning point.

While the firefighters were trying to control the fire , helicopters flew to the burning building .

Looking at an old map of the city, firefighters tried to identify what stood in areas where mounds of debris gather.

In many elevators, the Door Close button works only when switched to a special mode used by firefighters during a rescue.

I prefer to see uniformed military, firefighters, law-enforcement officers, or off-duty pilots and flight attendants sitting in those seats.

When you think of hazardous careers, firefighters, police officers, and coal miners doubtless top the list.

Firefighters can prepare at the fire station by maintaining their equipment, like the new fire engine vehicle.

Bangkok firefighters have been working through the night to put off the fires.

One of the first firefighters to reach the plant, Narumi Suzuki, told the BBC of his shock on seeing the extent of the damage.

He told firefighters: "We are going to make sure that the perpetrators of that horrible act will see justice. "

a scaffold near ground zero collapsed on top of firefighters and construction workers today , injuring at least two people.

Hundreds of firefighters and seven fire-fighting aircraft into the fire-fighting operations, but the fire still out of control trend.

Two hundred and sixty police officers and firefighters who went into the building after the planes crashed are missing and feared dead.

Molly: Yep, we had to call the firefighters to get him out of the tree.

In cold weather, many of these young volunteer firefighters wore coats made of the skin of buffalo to keep them warm and dry.

An international effort is underway to help Israel with special aircraft and teams of firefighters to control the fire.

Firefighters are still trying to control the blaze.

Many of the smaller counties and cities, he said, have volunteer firefighters and first-aid responders.

Some 47 percent of women fantasize about firefighters, while almost 54 percent of men dream about women dressed in a nurse's uniform.

As for timing, the Memphis Fire Service, firefighters and officers, need to take exercises as well as a real incident very serious.

Palestinian firefighters have joined international efforts to put out the huge forest fire in northern Israel. .

The firefighters attempted to put out the great fire before great damage was caused.

Firefighters have so far protected most of the homes in the suburbs near Los Angeles, but scores have been lost.

The fire lasted about four hours before the firefighters could put it out.

He stayed for seven months to help out these firefighters, and comb through the wreckage at ground zero looking for human remains.

Members of the Japanese military and firefighters from around the country have doused the damaged units with both seawater and freshwater.

Among Arcadia's Best are the firefighters that knock down the fires in our local forest, as you'll see in this2- minute video.

The top priority of firefighters today will be protecting Melbourne's water catchments from ash with bulldozers used to cut control lines.

It would provide relief to struggling states that would help save the jobs of thousands of teachers and cops and firefighters.

Firefighters look up to the entrance of a tunnel .

The firefighters broke down the door with emergency axes and saved the wounded.

"People doing ordinary jobs, like firefighters, cannot afford to live in London, " says Chris Hamnett, a sociologist.

Even with their equipment destroyed the firefighters continued to work.

As Tillamook firefighters' flashlights swept across the water, they landed on a partially submerged car farther downriver.

Most experiences of a disaster are not so positive and weigh heavily on first responders -- police, firefighters and medical staff.

Electric wands could allow future firefighters to extinguish flames with a wave of the hand, recent experiments suggest.

LAZY summer days are a rarity for America's firefighters, who must battle dozens of big blazes around the west.

"It was comforting to me, " Rich said, adding that he planned to watch the service a second time with other firefighters.

Firefighters and Police officers found themselves momentarily helpless. Trained to save others, they suddenly had to save themselves.

Firefighters swathed in radioactive-protection gear rushed in to refuel the trucks, exposing themselves to a highly radioactive environment.

Put the firefighters on speed dial, because we're about to expose tips that make your everyday routine so hot, you'll start smoldering.

In the Mediterranean ground based firefighters are often reinforced by fixed-wing aircraft, including amphibious planes, and helicopters.

Neighbors protested. Some of them offered to pay the firefighters thousands of dollars.

Firefighters had to break the door down to reach the people trapped inside.

The firefighters, seeking to control the fire as quickly as possible, called in a fleet of helicopters with very large buckets.

Hence the Republicans' decision to call as witnesses this week some firefighters who were denied promotion because of their skin colour.

Until then, Europe's firefighters have every reason to work together to minimise the risk of a dangerous backdraft.

But I have to say, we were doing oatmeal research with Chicago firefighters, and it was 100 degrees in the firehouse.

Lincolnshire Fire and Rescue Service group manager Doc Holliday said around 100 firefighters were at the scene at the height of the fire.

Right now, Congress should pass a bill to help states put thousands of teachers, firefighters and police officers back on the job.

The firefighters managed to put out the fire at last.

The streets were flooded with water and firefighters pulled charred and mangled bodies off the streets.

With this medical information doctors of a hospital can treat the injured firefighters more quickly and safely.

He feels guilt over sending firefighters -- some of whom he knew as friends -- into the flaming towers.

UK firefighters, who flew out soon after the disaster to help the search and rescue effort, are returning home this afternoon.

say the brave firefighters. "We'll have him down in no time. "

But firefighters are encountering a few frightened animals as they battle the blaze.

A crowd had gathered at the site and were helping to hold the water hoses as firefighters tried to control the raging fire.

Even so, firefighters set up a security perimeter around the installation.

While in New York, the president and first lady also attended an interfaith religious service and visited with firefighters.

The person who set the fire will likely face homicide charges for the deaths of two firefighters.

The Japanese people are probably glad that the army and firefighters, all employees of the state, are helping with the nuclear emergency.

When firefighters learned of Razeena's bravery, they presented her with a commissioner's award and plaque.

Firefighters look for possible victims after the collapse of a wall in Tegucigalpa, Honduras, following two weeks of heavy rains.

After the explosion, firefighters and emergency rescue personnel rushed to the scene, found in the ruins of an elderly woman's body.

The firefighters quickly prepared to catch the boys.

Ask any firefighters and he or she will tell you that happens all the time.

It might seem that firefighters would have a legal duty to put out a fire.

a truck driver at the scene told the firefighters, the leakage of chemicals of concentrated hydrochloric acid, for a total of 7 tons.

Firefighters spent four minutes getting the boa out of the bucket and putting it into an iron cage they brought with them.

The fire lasted about four hours before the firefighters were able to control it.

The rest, from firefighters to electric-line layers, are pulled out when their shifts are done, to stay where radiation levels are lower.

Every culture needs teachers, doctors, mechanics, artists, cooks, business people, police officers, firefighters, soldiers.

One of the firefighters reportedly has significant injuries.

Thousands of firefighters have been battling the blaze, dubbed the Wallow Fire, the second biggest in the history of Arizona.

Firefighters watch a "fire tornado" wreathed with dust and smoke as it swirls on the south slope of Hawaii's Mauna Kea volcano Sunday.

He says firefighters continuously train to avoid getting hurt, and with time, the job becomes easier.

Firefighters are battling huge forest fires raging out of control in south-eastern Australia.

It book the firefighters more than three hours to put out the big fire.

Some 60 firefighters and six trucks remained at the site to battle any flare-up , the fire brigade said.

Firefighters today plan on tearing into the walls and floors of this house, where ten bodies have already been found.

Working to a plan at last, James' firefighters had also created a large firebreak to the north of the conflagration.

In one town, firefighters were engulfed by mud as they arrived to help.

One of the biggest vessels in the Malaysian Navy caught fire Thursday, and firefighters took 9 hours to extinguish the blaze.

The official New China News Agency said a boy was found unconscious by firefighters inside the wreckage and taken to a hospital.

conversely , we were touched by the firefighters heroic efforts and felt their pain as we saw them lying in their hospital beds.

Firefighters reportedly placed a ladder in the elevator shaft to reach the child.

Quickly, the fire engines arrived, firefighters evacuated residents.

Firefighters supervised the orderly evacuation of the Building.

The analysts drew the results as vectors on a big topographic map for firefighters to see.

Firefighters, police trainers--even stockbrokers--have told me similar stories of seeing people freeze under extreme stress.

Those who lit the fire, in other words, have the nerve to portray themselves as the firefighters.

It turned out to be an alligator, and then she snatched the boy quickly and called the firefighters.

A total of nine people, including three firefighters, were transported to a local hospital, where Felton died.

that firefighters may only get a couple of minutes inside, to try and stop its spreading before giving up.

The firefighters clicked into a kind of professional default and did what they knew how to do, in the face of impossible odds.

Engineered to meet the requirements of wildland firefighters, who must combat fire in forest, field and woodland environments.

Hundreds of firefighters gathered at the fire command post Friday to honor their fallen comrades.

OIL FIRE: Firefighters extinguished a fire near the Guwahati Refinery in Guwahati, India, Monday.

Firefighters burst the door open and rescued them.

California firefighters are battling a wildfire that's burning out of control.

Before firefighters extinguished the blaze, flames roared from the roof and windows in several of the upper floors.

Light shines through a wall of smoke while firefighters work to extinguish what is left of the massive blaze in San Bruno.

Triple-digit temperatures are making it tough for firefighters to get a handle on growing wild fires in Australia.

Firefighters in the Australian state of Victoria are tackling a fresh outbreak bush fire of bushfires .

Firefighters battle a fire at a chemical plant in the Tongzhou district on Tuesday in Beijing, China. There were no casualties reported.

Firefighters tackling woodland fires near Chernobyl lack monitoring as well as equipment.

Sinclair also provides traditional training for police officers, firefighters, chefs, nurses and auto mechanics.

The idea is to use it to train paramedics, doctors and firefighters in prioritising care immediately after a disaster.

The city told firefighters who wanted to be promoted that they had to sit a test.

In legal papers Jones, who was 20 at the time, says she was fed a knockout drug while drinking with KBR firefighters.

Mr. Medvedev spoke as firefighters reported new gains against wildfires in forests across much of the country.

Please allow me to thank the firefighters for the immediate help.

The firefighters were putting out the fire when the building fell down.

Hundreds of people were looking on as the police and firefighters rescued the passengers in the wrecked train.

Three days later, when firefighters put out the last of the flames, some 500 blocks lay in ruins.

As the building is not required to have a sprinkler system, firefighters had to hoist hoses to the third floor in order to attack the fire.

The equipment was noisy, and I was terrified the car would start to fall again, but the firefighters were wonderfully reassuring.

We will increase funding to help states and communities train and equip our heroic police and firefighters.

Firefighters and ambulance "general knife, zhang ZhangLi" , is the result of hard work.

We need to lay broadband lines across this country and put our veterans back to work as cops and firefighters in communities that need them.

American policemen and firefighters, by the hundreds, ran into burning towers in the desperate hope of saving other lives.

Using a training elevator, firefighters were given various scenarios in which they had to use their newly acquired knowledge.

Small, agile pumpers often will allow one or two firefighters to control a fire long before other resources arrive.

Difference is that Wisconsin does not limit police and firefighters the right to collective bargaining.

As firefighters rushed to the scene, the flying stingers turned on them, sending the rescue crews running.

The department lost 343 firefighters that day, and hundreds more took early retirement in the next year.

Firefighters lifted the car with a jack and removed Borowski, who was dehydrated and confused.

Foreign firefighters and aircrafts have joined in the battle against the blazes threatening to Greece.

Firefighters monitor a fire as it burns near the suburb of Glendale on the outskirts of Los Angeles city on September 1, 2009.

Meanwhile, many homeowners are returning to find firefighters dousing smoldering flames and their belongings buried in piles of rubble.

AFTER firefighters extinguish a blaze they usually look carefully for glowing embers before rolling up their hoses and heading off.

But there's another group of increasingly important firefighters battling the blaze: private contractors.

Firefighters on July 17 fight the oil inferno at the Dalian port where the two pipeline explosions occurred earlier in the day.

Firefighters took action immediately to stop the blaze spreading.

With the worst of the banking crisis now receding in most rich countries, it is tempting to send the financial firefighters home.

Firefighters rescued more than 100 residents from the burning building. The building houses 150 families, the news agency said.

Forestry officials say the firefighters' work was hampered by the lack of satellite imagery.

In Chicago, firefighters will share first doses with hospitals, to get some emergency responders protected, too.

We've also looked over the code to make sure firefighters, swats etc get the appropriate points they deserve.

The bill would not affect police or firefighters. They are barred from striking.

It could have been much worse, if we wouldn't have had such well-trained firefighters.

Jim is a retired firefighter and is involved in the San Francisco Firefighters Toy Program.

The firefighters rushed into the big fire, though the burning building might fall down at any moment.

Calmer winds may help firefighters in Ventura Country, California get a better handle on one of the state's longest burning fires.

Right now, hundreds of thousands of teachers and firefighters and police officers have been laid off because of state budget cuts.

He has stared down dictators and spoken out for America's cops and firefighters.

Firefighters sprayed water at the blaze and plucked people from balconies with extension ladders .

Firefighters doused the smoldering wreckage of vehicles destroyed by several explosions in the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf Monday.

Governor Walker's program fails that test. It spares traditional Republican groups (even cops and firefighters).

Walking over metal beams, downed cable wires and slabs of concrete, the firefighters struggle to maintain their footing.

The fire was so big that the firefighters couldn't get close to the building.

Firefighters are battling a wildfire in California that has destroyed several homes and is threatening about 100 more in the area.

on california santa catalina island , firefighters turned back flames threatening the island ' s main city.

Landing, the airport runway at the airport firefighters have been ready.

The fire had been put off when the firefighters arrived.

Increasingly, little oxygen masks for pets are becoming standard equipment for firefighters.

Adj. volunteer firefighters; volunteer tutoring.

Firefighters: Eighty percent of firefighters are "very satisfied" with their jobs, which involve helping people.

Other investigators, they note, have found that firefighters often say their skin ends up covered in soot after battling a blaze.

The firefighters must have nerves of steel! I can't believe what they go through to save people.

Firefighters have the best chance of putting out a blaze if they can jump on it as soon as it ignites.

Firefighters also helped in salvage operations - saving hundreds of videos from a video vault that caught fire.

A group of white firefighters sued for racial discrimination when they were denied promotions.

Pakistani volunteers and firefighters struggle to extinguish a fire at a crash site in Karachi.

Dozens, if not hundreds, of firefighters had been killed.

More than 400 of the dead were first responders, including New York City firefighters, police officers, and EMTs.

The fire was brought under control fairly quickly, with four engines, a ladder truck and 33 firefighters responding.

Many of New Brunswick's residents commute to New York for work, including several firefighters who responded to the attacks.

Firefighters are using water and bulldozers to battle a forest fire in New Jersey's Pine Barrens .

But when no black firefighters passed, the city ignored the results and promoted no one.

High winds compounded the difficulties of the firefighters. fiery .

Nine firefighters were taken to the hospital after two fire trucks collided in Center City, Philadelphia.

People from another building watch firefighters extinguish a fire on an apartment building in downtown Shanghai on Monday Nov.

Firefighters work to stop a wildfire from spreading in the Ryazan region of Russia.

To make the fire alarm not sound like a fake one, they set the school on fire. And the firefighters came and extinguished the fire.

Since a huge fire, the fire department sent 70 firefighters control the fire before participating in the operation.

There were a dozen cops and two dozen firefighters on the scene.

The firefighters begged him to jump again and again.

At least 15 people were injured, including 10 firefighters.

However firefighters not alone, and alongside them hard, is class unflappable ambulance.

Firefighters from across Japan are splitting the city into sections to simplify the searches.

Firefighters wear special coats and helmets to protect themselves from heat and falling ceilings.

At that time, the two highest floors of one tower caused fire first, and a large number of firefighters rushed to the scene.

And this, about 2000 firefighters are on the scene of this blaze in Santa Cruz, California.

Firefighters from across Japan are splitting Onagawa into sections to simplify the searches.

The firefighters in Queens who battled an inferno from flooded streets, and rescued people from an apartment building by boat.

Australian firefighters continue to battle a dozen blazes still burning in Victoria State. That's where wildfires took more than 180 people.

For people like professional cooks and firefighters, the problem can force an occupational switch.

Coastal fog has brought hope of relief to firefighters battling Northern California's wildfires.

Morgan invented a helm to protect miners and firefighters from smoke and gas. he won a gold medal for this.

High winds compounded the difficulties of the firefighters.

Meanwhile local firefighters are facing a deluge criticism for being disorganized and late.

Meanwhile, local firefighters are facing a deluge of criticism for being disorganized and late.

But Republicans have spoon-fed their allies in the firefighters and the police.

But the military and civilian firefighters had to keep their distance and limit the time they could be in the area because of the radiation.

000 firefighters continue to battle through darkness with the blaze as the flame's fed by extremely hot weather.

It eventually took firefighters 80 minutes to contain the fire and remove the charred battery from the plane.

In Queensland, firefighters battled a string of blazes as the unseasonally dry weather stoked the flames.

May: The doctors wear white, firefighters wear red, and the police wear blue?

Therein some caverns some firefighters tell us looking for survivors. But it is a cruelly slow process.

They would have lost their lives but for the help of the firefighters.

Strong wind gusts spanning the plains aren't making things easier for the firefighters.

Strong winds gust spanning the plains aren't making things easier for the firefighters.

Three firefighters attempted to rescue the old blind from the burning house , but failed .

'That place was moonscaped, ' firefighters say of land like a part of Boise National Forest that burned in 1994.

When the firefighters arrived, the big fire had been put out.

When the firefighters reached the burning building they found that their ladders were not long enough.

WHEREVER there's a fire in the euro zone, the financial firefighters rush to the scene.

The fire it for four hours before the firefighters put it under control.

Firefighters maintained a presence at the site for 28 days, guarding against the possibility of further fires caused by the blast.

At least three firefighters were injured in the blaze, the cause of which was under investigation.

In a celebration, firefighters hosed boys, ages 7 to 11, with water before a mass circumcision ceremony Friday in Kampung Nakhoda, Malaysia.

The soldiers were joined by firefighters who battled intermittent blazes at both hotels.

the man came to after firefighters tugged on his ropes , then held up a sign from inside the window to get his attention.

There were cheerful greetings at the gate by retired firefighters dispensing $3 admission tickets.

How did Glenda Smith and the other firefighters put out the fire?

Chinese firefighters help students evacuate from a flooded school.

Hundreds of police and firefighters intent on their rescue mission lost their lives as Two W. T. C. collapsed.