In the U.S., we tackle healthcare in a way that would be the equivalent of having the best firefighters and firefighting equipment in the world that can respond to any imaginable fire.
In the U.S., we tackle healthcare in a way that would be the equivalent of having the best firefighters and firefighting equipment in the world and then paying them more if there were more fires.
Malaysia has provided Indonesia with firefighting equipment and firefighters, while Singapore has supplied satellite-imaging equipment to detect hot spots, he said.
More firefighters and more firefighting equipment are, of course, needed.
More than 10,000 firefighters and 2,158 pieces of firefighting equipment, including 43 airplanes, have been deployed to fight the fires.
The police officers trained as firefighters at Kennedy, La Guardia and Newark Airports scramble their firefighting equipment about 1,100 times a year, according to the agency.
A Fire Department spokesman said more than 100 firefighters and 25 trucks and other firefighting equipment responded to alarms at the building, which has 400 apartments.
A recent forestry law effectively disposed of dedicated forest guards; the dire state of Russian roads often makes it impossible for firefighters to reach burning villages; much firefighting equipment is in an appalling state.
Seawater cannot be used in firefighting equipment, he added.
Food and firefighting equipment came on the plane's next pass.
It was structurally sound and had adequate firefighting equipment.
