Sentence examples for a single firefighter from inspiring English sources

"I'm the parent of a single firefighter," she said.

"The family of a single firefighter got the same amount of money as a widow with five children".

Beside the M-108 highway, a two-lane ribbon of asphalt carved through a towering birch forest, a fire burned without a single firefighter in sight, smoke wafting onto the road as trucks zoomed past through the haze.

Over the course of my two and a half days, I hit bars, restaurants and nightclubs; attended a Greensboro Grasshoppers minor league baseball game with a single firefighter, whom I'd met through Match.com; and enjoyed dinner and a night of barhopping with a posse of eight locals.

A bitter dispute has erupted over the decision by a firefighters' union to exclude the families of single firefighters who died on Sept. 11 from receiving any of the roughly $60 million collected through its Widows' and Children's Fund.

Sally Regenhard has become a de facto spokeswoman for the grieving parents of single firefighters and says that she fears her son is being devalued because his story is not as gripping as that of parents with young children.

They note that families of single firefighters have already received $418,000 each from a separate fund.

Another apartment in the house will be offered to three single firefighters.

The single firefighters' families say that they were dependent on their sons, even if not for their livelihoods.

Chief Riches and the other families of single firefighters received checks from the Widows' and Children's Fund for their portion of the $1.6 million raised by the Philadelphia Police and Fire Departments and the $2.3 million raised by the Central Florida Fire Chiefs Associationn and WFTV Channel 9 News in Orlando.

Mr. Harris began paying debts, laying off workers and considering a plan to merge the fire and police departments into a single unit where firefighters could ultimately answer burglary calls and police officers could put out fires.