Sentence examples for firefighting companies from inspiring English sources

More than 50 firefighting companies were eliminated.

For the next two years, Columbia's volunteer firefighting companies relied largely on bucket brigades.

The department oversees the counties' volunteer firefighting companies and handles training for volunteers.

"I'd say that we are satisfied with the level of operations and services that we received from other government agencies and private firefighting companies," he said.

If these contract firefighters are hurt or killed on the job, they or their families are eligible for workers' compensation, and they often receive donations from wildfire charities and other firefighting companies.

Irkut also recently signed a letter of intent to sell eight Be-200 water bombers to Hawkins & Powers Aviation Inc., a firefighting aircraft company in Greybull, Wyo., for $200 million.

"People's quality of life is improving," said Xie Yibo, who as general manager in Suzhou of a company that makes firefighting trucks is a member of the emerging middle class.

Like firefighting itself, the Hawthorne fire company, with 65 volunteer members in this hamlet of 5,000 in the Town of Mount Pleasant (the only paid member is an emergency medical technician), has changed over the years.

But companies have been busy firefighting.

Local officials also blame a revised 2006 forest code that allowed logging companies to contract out firefighting operations.

More firefighters and more firefighting equipment are, of course, needed.