Word: firemanning
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...first fire was in a shoe store. When fire engines screamed to the scene, rocks flew. One fireman, caught squarely in the jaw, was knocked from a truck to the gutter. More and more rioters were drawn to the streets by the sound of the sirens and a sense of summer excitement...
...Negro rioters. Of those dead by racial violence in Newark last week, only two were white. Plainclothes Patrolman Frederick Toto, 34, a police hero cited for saving a drowning child in 1964, was shot through the chest by a sniper and died two hours later, despite heart surgery. A fireman was later shot in the back and killed. Among the Negro dead were children and women, looters and gunmen...
...streets within ten minutes of the first alarm, but helplessly watched many people jump or burn to death before they could raise their ladders or spread their nets. "One man was transformed into a living torch before my eyes as he hesitated to leap from a high window," said Fireman Jacques Mesmans. Others, luckier, landed atop parked cars and escaped with bruises and broken bones. Amid the panic, the flames climbed to the roof, where bottles of butane gas for sale to campers sealed the building's fate with a staccato of explosions...
...face of such problems, a number of companies have found it possible to reduce costs-and create good will-by changing their methods of operation. San Francisco-based Fireman's Fund American Insurance Companies, for example, two years ago started to pay off many accident claims immediately-without first demanding a waiver against future payments...
...duty fireman remarked, "If I had my fire hose, I'd wash all this trash down the street...