Mr. Cassidy said that about 10 p.m. on Monday, he came upon a group of firefighters sitting on the back of a fire truck, soaking themselves down after stripping off their gear.
During a recent visit I made to a fire station, the alarm went off and I hopped on the back of a fire truck to ride along in the response.
State and federal lawmakers across the country are looking back on a record fire season and asking whether there's a way to better prepare financially for major wildfires.
In the end, Homer winds up getting poked on the back by a fire hydrant, breaking his spine, much to Tom's shock.
He found himself on his back, one leg on fire.
It will be just like old times: a chance to relax, catch up, share funny stories, eat and drink, listen to music, kick back around a fire pit or on the deck.
In June, Kevin Canham, a firefighter with Ladder Company 120 in Bushwick, Brooklyn -- a busy company -- who is also a volunteer fire chief with the Baldwin Fire Department on Long Island, injured his back while fighting a fire on Long Island, WCBS-TV reported.
As a result, the United States has fallen back on a familiar strategy: missiles fired from armed drones operated by the C.I.A.
Farther back, a window looking out on a fire escape.
A longtime advocate of environmental issues, Snyder argued in Back on the Fire: Essays (2007) that forest fires can be beneficial and that government actions to fight them often work against natural processes.
