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Firefighter

From Encyc

A firefighter is an individual specially trained to fight fires.[1]

Modern firefighters usually travel from their fire hall to a fire in fire engines.[1] Firefighters who fight marine fires may use a fireboat.

Forest fires may be fought by firefighters flying Water bombers, or by smoke jumpers - lightly equipped firefighters who are dropped by parachute so they can access and get ahead of fires so remote they can not be reached by road.

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Herbert Theodore Jenness (2023). Bucket Brigade to Flying Squadron: Fire Fighting Past and Present. LEGARE STREET Press. ISBN 9781021649386. Retrieved 2023-12-08.