Sentence examples for firefighting up from inspiring English sources
Thomas S. Goodkind Battery Park City A Former Firehouse That's Open to All To the Editor: In "Firefighting Up Close" (F.Y.I., Aug. 5), a reader asks, "Does the Fire Department have open houses?" Yes, New York, there is a firehouse that families can visit: a 1904 Beaux Arts building at 278 Spring Street in Manhattan.
The Forest Service struggles under an increasingly costly mission: According to a report released last month, firefighting takes up more than 50percentt of its annual budget, up from 16percentt a decade ago.
Nor has firefighting caught up to the skylines.
It's even worse at the Forest Service, which is starved of funds partly because firefighting is eating up its budgets.
So the people in this building were not able to use it during the fire". According to Bengali newspaper the Daily Star, it took 22 firefighting units, backed up by the army, navy and air force, to tackle the blaze.
In 1995, firefighting costs made up about 16percentt of Forest Service's budget, the agency said.
As the cost of firefighting has gone up, the Forest Service budget has stayed relatively flat.
But nor do these improvised bits of firefighting and exhortation add up to a coherent plan.
"Our neighborhood has really come together," Ms. Driedger said, as a firefighting crew finally pulled up in the late morning.
When the second tower collapsed, he picked up his firefighting gear at home and headed for the site.
