Sentence examples for rise fire from inspiring English sources

Their ability to rise, fire & disappear was highly appreciated in those days.

One of the things that struck me then and now, as we approach another anniversary of 9/11, is that these are the very first responders that we would have to rely on in event of another attack, or a high rise fire, or a sudden heart attack, or even being stuck in an elevator.

Others said the collapse had upended their assumptions about the dangers of fighting a high-rise fire.

"But it is literally the difference between life and death for people caught in a high-rise fire.

The chiefs and commanders were operating on standard F.D.N.Y. procedure on how to fight a high-rise fire: stay below the burning floors, and attack from there.

The firefighters were among hundreds who poured into ground zero all afternoon to fight the high-rise fire, which was finally brought under control after seven hours.

Inspectors from the Fire Department and the city failed to make certain that the standpipe needed to fight a high-rise fire was working.

Firefighter Mike Pendergast, a department spokesman, said the truck was one of several that had responded to a high-rise fire at Broadway and 55th Street.

Photo: A high-rise fire in Jersey City forced the evacuation of about 1,000 residents yesterday morning from the 21-story Gregory Apartments, 270 Marin Boulevard.

SHANGHAI — A Shanghai court has sentenced nearly two dozen government officials, construction workers and contractors to jail for their role in a high-rise fire here that killed 58 people and injured 71 last November.

Aside from last month's fire, in which no one was seriously injured, firefighters said they could not recall a major high-rise fire along the waterfront in recent years.