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How to use fireman in a sentence

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Meanwhile, Albert meets a fireman, Tommy, who introduces him to the French existentialist, who teaches that life is meaningless and cruel.
A racegoer tries to identify his vehicle while a fireman on the left douses sparks in another car.
He said an off-duty fireman immediately took command, marshalling helpers until paramedics arrived.
Police said the former fireman awoke to find a young man rifling through his living room.
He remained in New York state until 1859, when he went to New Orleans and got a job as fireman on a steamship.
Both the engineer and fireman of the train were killed instantly in the overturning of the giant locomotive.
The fireman had to keep shoveling coal into the furnace which generated the steam to propel the train.
And it's around 40 years since he rode on the footplate as a fireman when the line was part of the national rail network.
Family pets, Holly the hamster and a goldfish were saved from the incident and the mum said she was very grateful to the fireman for that.
She was shaking, and a fireman in a black slicker did his best to comfort her.
Jesse had wanted to become a soldier or fireman so the Army sent a Land Rover to his birthday party last year and gave him a slouch hat.
One fireman spent nearly ten minutes using his hands to dig the frightened youth out of the mud.
When he finally hung up his black boots and oilskins last month, Liam had clocked up 42 years as a fireman.
Occasionally, for a joke, the fireman would put the end of the staff in the firebox, making it too hot for the signalman to handle.
The man, who is a fireman, does seem rather smooth in a smart blazer, open-necked shirt and designer stubble.
A fireman was shot as he tried to douse a blazing jobcentre and a police dog handler survived a bullet ricocheting inside his vehicle.
Suddenly came Mr Hill's cry for help and as a fireman started to sift through the debris he saw the railman's boots poking through the soil.
One fireman seemed to get hold of him then he seemed to slip from his grasp.
A recruit can easily become a fireman in engineering on a frigate or just as easily direct aircraft on a carrier as an airman.
Sudden death smashed upon the kneeling priest when, having removed his helmet, he was administering the last rites to a dying fireman.
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The fireman threw open the furnace-door and stoked the fire as we approached.
The fireman shook his head, as he divested himself of his coat and neckcloth.
Sergeant Silk snatched the oilcan from Joe Halkett's grip and handed it to the fireman.
Telling the fireman he could go to sleep, he moved about the engine with an oilcan and afterwards cleaned the fire.
Under Mr. Van Britt's directions the engineer and fireman of the pilot engine brought tools and the break was repaired.
So he dismissed the affair, and devoted his whole attention to learning to be a fireman.
In a smoke-filled room a fireman may find a stratum of cool, and comparatively fresh, air at the bottom near the floor.
Seats were provided for nine persons, including the steerer and the fireman.
Mrs. kelter thought it would be better to send for her husband, who was employed as fireman on the emigrant ferryboat.
Ralph did not feel quite as well as usual and his fireman was pale and loggy, but the main effects of the drug had passed off.
They held up a train in Tulare county and killed a fireman, but were repulsed.
Every fireman, and occasionally an engineer, on the passing trains, had a shot with a lump of coal at the Barbary ape.
I looked at the gauge-glasses on the boilers, peered into the bilges, and found the fireman at his post in the stokehold.
In case of derailment or other accident that might cause the fireman to desert his position in cab, what should he do?
The shovel card is kept by the shovel runner or the fireman, and the train record is kept by the dinkey runner.
Mamma Pepperall watched him cavort a moment, then sniffed contemptuously, and rolled out like a fireman summoned.
Robertson nodded to his fireman, for heysham had told him the story, and presently the vibration grew yet sharper.
The regular employees for operating a steam shovel are the engineman, cranesman, fireman and four laborers.
I SERVED in the Liverpool fire brigade from 1953 to 1968, when I moved on to other brigades seeking to further my career as a fireman.
For a fireman he was scrupulously clean, always washing up in the roundhouse before he came home.
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