Word: firemanning
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Pyromania is the irresistible urge to set fires. There is no comparable term for the irresistible urge to extinguish them. Whatever that mania is called, New York City Fireman Dennis Smith, 35, has it in its most extreme form. In Smith's view, where there is fire there is always smoke-and it is his sworn duty to drown the flames and clear the air. As a zealous fire fighter, he has been taking care of urban conflagrations for twelve years. To dissipate the clouds of rumor and misinformation, he wrote Report from Engine Co. 82, a bestselling documentary...
Such first-novel flaws slow Smith's pace. But they cannot obscure his paradoxical, poignant message: the man who is constantly asked to rescue his fellows cannot leave his post without breaking a social contract. In the final analysis, as in The Final Fire, the fireman can help everyone but himself. Paul Gray
...arrested men, Mel Patrick Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, and Dominic Byrne, 53, a Brooklyn limousine operator, have signed statements admitting their roles in the eight-day abduction of the 21-year-old Bronfman. Lynch's attorney has asked that his client undergo psychiatric tests, apparently to build a defense of mental incompetence at the time of the kidnaping. Byrne's attorney insists that his client acted out of fear-presumably of Lynch -for his safety, and actually helped Bronfman during his confinement. Although the two suspects have been friends for about ten years, their defense...
...which the uniformed officers were asking.) Police and firemen both argued that some city street cleaners, plumbers and carpenters make as much as $400 more per month than do policemen and firemen. "We don't begrudge anyone else their wages," said one fireman, "but when you get a burning building with people screaming, just try sending in a laborer...
Unknown to the kidnaper, FBI agents had observed the ransom exchange and got the license number (969KXJ) of the kidnaper's car. Incredibly, neither the car nor the plates seemed to have been stolen. The number checked out to a Mel Lynch, 37, a New York City fireman, who lived in a six-story apartment house in a middle-class area of Brooklyn. Agents quickly staked out the house...