Sentence examples for bush firefighter from inspiring English sources

"He never beat around the bush," Firefighter O'Connor said.

Down the road, a fierce wind whipped flames across the bush as dozens of firefighters tried futilely to extinguish them.

They planted a tree and also spoke to firefighters who tackled the bush fires.

Firefighters were battling some 43 bush and grass fires across NSW on Saturday.

Thousands of firefighters sought today to contain fierce bush fires ringing Sydney for a third day amid fears that strong winds could return to fan the flames.

But many houses, some of them log cabins surrounded by oily manzanita bush -- the worst kind of shrubbery from a firefighter's point of view -- looked as flammable as a stack of hay with a lighted cigarette on top.

Marion Gibson first started knitting "trauma teddies" 15 years ago, after she saw firefighters in Australia give cuddly toys to children fleeing bush fires.

Briefing parliament on Tuesday, the NSW premier, Barry O'Farrell, said 59 bush and grassfires were burning across NSW with more than 500 firefighters and 200 appliances on the ground.

Israeli and Palestinian firefighters, helped by foreign aircraft, have been battling dozens of bush blazes fed by drought and high winds that have seen tens of thousands of people evacuated.

For instance, a survey of 459 Australian firefighters identified that 32% self-reported psychological disturbances 4 months after they combated a disastrous bush conflagration.

It drew its leadership, primarily, from the local fire department – the current mayor was once a firefighter – and it has a dynastic culture that would not be unfamiliar to the Clintons or Bushes.