Word: firemen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...cabbie for directions. The cabbie told him he could not explain how to get to the hotel, but for a fee he would lead him. Disgusted, the explorer drove on and, coming to a fire station, parked his Hertz car in the driveway and refused to move until the firemen agreed to tell him where...
...Angeles' 60-year-old landmark Central Library had long suspected that the four towers containing most of the library's books were potential chimney flues. The towers turned out to be just that as a conflagration engulfed the largest library in the West last week. More than 250 firemen fought the blaze for more than six hours...
...better yet, it runs up against a brick wall: how can the quiet rationality of a policy investigation make sense of police who machine gun like gangsters, a city that drops a bomb on itself, firemen who start fires and watch them burn? The whole thing is a demonic inversion...
...crowd of more than 100 Harvard students and Cantabrigians watched Cambridge firemen pry open the hood of the car, owned by Kate Gillis, and douse the burning engine with water and foam...
...well. France sent 280 rescue specialists, including 60 doctors and 30 search dogs. West Germany dispatched 56 members of a disaster-relief unit, along with five paramedics and twelve search dogs, heavy salvage gear, a medical emergency center, a mobile kitchen and medical supplies. From Britain came four London firemen, who brought with them nine thermal cameras, which use infrared sensors to detect the body heat of buried survivors...