Word: firetruck
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While reviewers have praised the work and its author, critics, including many firefighters, have taken issue with Langewiesche’s interpretation of several events, including the discovery of a destroyed firetruck with new pairs of blue jeans filling the chassis...
...Friday afternoon The President traveled to New York, visiting rescue workers at the disaster site. "Thank you for your hard work, thank you for making the nation proud," the President told cheering workers. He perched atop a felled firetruck, exhorting workers with the help of a bullhorn...
...gave in to the temptation. My poor mother, used to waiting to serve dinner until the half was over, now had to wait for a line change, a qualifying heat and for that big Swedish dude to finish pulling the firetruck accross the line...
...firetruck pulled up just as we asked another woman if she wanted to use the mailbox. All of a sudden, she grew cautious and refused to deposit her parcels in the post box. "Is there a bomb in there?" she asked. I told her no, but she asked if I would put her letters and packages in the mailbox...
...smoke alarms on all floors, elevators that return automatically to the ground floor in case of fire, and outside stairways to allow quick evacuations. Yet no matter how new they are, high-rise hotels-indeed, all high-rise buildings-remain largely out of the life-saving reach of firetruck aerial ladders. Most of them can extend only 90 ft. or so, or as high as the eighth or ninth floor...