Examples of firefighter

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The agency has already tested the system with firefighters who need to stay in touch while working in noisy environments.
Possible occupations are firefighters, police officers, lawyers, doctors, homemakers, teachers, machinists, electricians, auto mechanics, or hair stylists.
The first responders to a 911 call are usually firefighters and police.
The first responders in out-of-hospital settings are usually bystanders, paramedics, ambulance drivers, firefighters, police, and community volunteers, and in hospital settings they are usually nurses.
Philosophers do not fare much better as firefighters, because this approach undermines the very foundations on which philosophers rest their expertise.
The roles that bioethicists occupy in the public field can be crudely characterized as the following: demagogues, firefighters, window dressers, and academics.
Although firefighters may take an oath in order to define their obligations, they also sign a contract.
On that day scores of firefighters who were off duty rushed to the disaster and to their deaths.
Many of the contingencies in the firefighters' contemporary and historical environments prepared them for their acts of altruism.
Indeed, all the principles we mentioned here are likely to help account for the firefighters' altruism (rule-governed and contingency-shaped behaviors, negative reinforcement, conditioned reinforcement, generalization, and stimulus control).
Similarly, the firefighter in the neighborhood with the petroleum refinery is paid the same as the firefighter across town in the neighborhood where the buildings never burn.
All men from 25 to 40 are strongly expected (virtually required; exempted only by some significant circumstance) by neighborhood peers to join a local firefighter group.
Our thoughts are also with the rescue forces, the firefighters and policemen who risked and lost their lives to save others.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
Let us finally bury this damaging treaty and stop playing at pyromaniac firefighters.
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
With the best will in the world, you cannot make arsonists into firefighters!
From Europarl Parallel Corpus - English
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