Sentence examples for service firefighter from inspiring English sources

I was with the guide Doug Nidever, 53, a graying guru of climbing and the former chief guide at Yosemite National Park, and Ken Corathers, 58, a former Southern California resident who retired to the mountains after a varied career as a French horn player and a United States Forest Service firefighter.

David Ruhl, 38, a U.S. Forest Service firefighter from South Dakota, was driving alone on Thursday, scouting ways to attack a fire burning in Modoc County, just south of the Oregon border.

Whether they take a check home twice a month or never get paid for the countless hours of dedicated service, firefighters are all professionals.

Already this year, a particularly fierce one for fires, dozens of United States Forest Service firefighters have crossed into Mexico with special clearances to try to control fires before they reach the United States.

LOS ANGELES, Nov. 1 — The police are investigating whether a man charged this week in two brush fires may be connected to last week's wildfire near Palm Springs that killed five United States Forest Service firefighters.

He said: "In a full-time fire service, firefighters are available in a matter of seconds - a huge difference in time from someone mobilised from home".

The morning we left Lake Oroville for the mountains, Murphy had roughhoused with a division of U.S. Forest Service firefighters who said they were missing their dogs back home.

California is the home base of our Billions Rising Foundation and every year we have terrible fires that are fought by a combination of urban and forest service firefighters and sometimes the specialist smokejumpers.

Struggling to stay afloat, Stockton has slashed tens of millions of dollars' worth of city services — firefighters, senior centers, library programs for at-risk children — and said it would cut its municipal bond repayments to a degree never seen before in a municipal bankruptcy.

As cuts to the fire service continue, firefighter numbers are decreasing, meaning those that remain are likely to be exposed to critical incidents with greater frequency.

"We are very concerned about the risks to firefighters, and those who rely on the fire service, when firefighters are forced to stay in frontline service until they reach 60".