the.com/firefighter
runs toward the thing your every instinct screams to flee, then naps about it
means A person trained to extinguish fires, rescue people from burning buildings, and respond to assorted emergencies.
from A plain compound of "fire" and "fighter," both rooted in Old English — "fȳr" for fire and "feohtan," to fight. The older term "fireman" dominated for generations; "firefighter" rose to prominence in the later 20th century as a gender-neutral replacement, the language quietly acknowledging that the people running into burning buildings aren't all men.
- gear weight
- full kit can top 45 pounds
- slang origin
- 'smoke eater' is a literal old job description
- true enemy
- cancer kills more than flames do
- sliding pole
- invented to beat slow spiral staircases
- dalmatian duty
- bred to calm and guard fire horses
fdny — new york city fire department with 11,600+ firefighters, established 1865
los angeles fire department — la-based department responding to wildfires across southern california annually
tokyo fire department — japan's largest fire service with 6,500+ personnel across tokyo