In a city where the faces staring from the windows of passing fire trucks mostly seem to belong to firefighters about half that age, Firefighter Beddia stood out, as do his peers, the senior rank-and-file members of the department.
After chanting "USA USA USA!" at a parade of passing fire trucks, I spoke to a patron named Sharif about his experience.
"I'd have thought that if you were basically passing a fire extinguisher sideways out of your vaginal passage, that the last thing you'd want is a song about the fucking ocean!" His theory about songs being more important than their singers works for another Sheffield star too.
"Then I went downtown and passed a couple of fire stations.
In the three-day Battle of Warsaw in July 1656, the untried army of Brandenburg, under the Elector's command, passed its test of fire.
We pass a convoy of fire engines and truckloads of self-defence force troops, on their way to the coast to help rebuild devastated villages.
The city centre can be rowdy, but it's rarely unsafe: Sauchiehall Street, for example, has a bad reputation, but even at weekends, the only real danger you're likely to encounter is a pissed hen party squawking at you from the window of a passing fire engine limo.
She had been captivated by one of his artistic collaborations: a 40-foot steel sculpture of a mother passing fire to her child.
In the climax of the novel, Ayesha takes the two men to see the pillar of fire, passing through the ruined city of Kôr into the heart of the ancient volcano.
Cortical tissue was mechanically disrupted to achieve a single cell suspension by passing through fire-polished glass pipettes of decreasing bore size.
