Sentences with phrase «of firefight as»

I've played a lot of Firefight as well as the Campaign, but I'm going to wait on covering Firefight until I can spend more time on each of the maps.

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It brought him back to years earlier when, as a firefighter with the New York City Fire Department, he served as a first responder on September 11, crawling through the giant blocks of brick and mortar that had collapsed hours earlier.

VENTURA, Calif. — California Governor Jerry Brown will survey the destruction of the state's devastating wildfires on Saturday, as firefighters rushed to contain the blazes before dry desert winds were expected to intensify.

Before a bell rung 42 times to commemorate the dead, Giordano and other officials praised the ordinary and extraordinary acts of heroism by first responders and community members as the firefight raged on for more than a week.

Granted, she is only 4 and wants to be a gymnast, artist or firefighter — as of this week anyway.

Residents were evacuated from the building in Balloch, on the banks of Scotland's Loch Lomond, as more than 45 firefighters attended the scene, Scottish news channel STV reported.

A photo tweeted by the Savannah Professional Firefighters Association shows the tail end of a plane and a field of flames and black smoke as an ambulance stood nearby.

The lessons of delegation, communication, and fighting the urge to be an internal firefighter are timeless and are as applicable to an entry - level employee as they are to the C - suite.

Firefighters are continuing to battle the blaze as of Thursday, reports a local Fox News affiliate, but it's only about 15 % contained.

As the rule's new effective date approaches, will he protect the retirement savings of working people — carpenters and coal miners, teachers and technicians, firefighters and farmers — or allow a portion of the financial sector to continue to keep their clients in the dark about whose interests come first?

As hundreds of firefighters and some two dozen air tankers battle Canada's massive wildfires, scientists and other experts say prolonged modern droughts and climate change are creating a new perfect storm of super fires and other extreme weather events.

Firefighters and police officers face life - threatening situations routinely as a fundamental part of their jobs.

She held a variety of jobs including being an on - call firefighter and a lifeguard instructor as relocations required moves from California to Georgia to New York.

The sound of chain saws began to fill the silence that spread across San Juan late Wednesday afternoon as firefighters began to remove trees and used small bulldozers to lift toppled concrete light posts.

Having worked as a firefighter for over thirty years, having worked as a grief counselor for over five years, having experienced lots of pain, suffering and sorrow as a hypnotherapist, to allow those in grieve, to be able to share their feelings and emotions in a non-judgmental atmosphere is huge.

assuming their state of mind is one of typical sanity and the extent of their knowledge being equal, I would posit that the firefighter who faces doubts and pushes past those doubts to fulfill his role as a firefighter is braver than the one that never faced those doubts.

He read about the firefighters who marched up the smoke - choked stairwells of the World Trade Center, though many knew they could die; the beloved priest killed while giving last rites as the twin towers collapsed; the passengers on hijacked planes who called their families one last time to say, «I love you.»

As firefighters revealed they were no longer expecting to find anyone else alive at the Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, a statement released by Buckingham Palace also paid tribute to the «bravery» of firefighters.

A substantial sector of religious America, for example, sees the firefight in Waco as an attack on radical religion and places the cutting edge of religious freedom in the defense of cults» free exercise rights.

Held on the eve of the UN-sponsored elections of a new national assembly and government, the peace march, known as Dhammayietra II («Pilgrimage of Truth»), traversed dangerous territory marked by landmines and firefights.

A group representing a New York City firefighter who survived the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks filed suit Wednesday seeking to nullify a ruling that cleared the way for construction of what's come to be known as the «ground zero mosque.»

As a career firefighter in St. Paul, Minn., saving lives was part of his life, and so was keeping his fellow firefighters well fed.

Jim, an Indianapolis - area firefighter, is the former owner of the Mild to Wild Pepper & Herb Company, as well as being a past chile pepper grower & expert, plus the organizer & host of the famous Open Fields chilehead event.

When Modelo does a much better job of promoting Stipe as a firefighting world heavyweight champion that's a problem

The video will be used by London Firefighters and the Brigade's Education team as part of their fire prevention outreach work, teaching children in foundation year classes (Nursery, Reception and Year 1) about the people who help us.

«Sometimes women just want to be rescued,» Your Tango declared after a survey of single women in New York City revealed a preference for firefighters (brawn) and Wall street execs (bucks) as potential perfect mates.

Village officials said they recently began negotiating new labor agreements with the Firefighter / Paramedic Association as well as the Metropolitan Alliance of Police and may have to make modifications later this year depending on contract settlements.

I am commenting to give you a shout out as a fellow firefighter wife and mom of three!

My fashion sense is that of a firefighter / paramedic, so don't blast me for admiring Stacy as she walks around in that pink dress that she dreaded wearing during the commercial.

As the grandmother of a suburban firefighter, I am disturbed by the flap over the amount Orland Park pays its staff.

As mayor of Rochester, Duffy (who is the city's former police chief) is putting his foot down when it comes to overtime for police and firefighters.

As mourners prepare to gather today to pay final respects to a New York City firefighter who died battling a fire in Harlem, officials said the cause of the blaze remains a mystery and that the fire - ravaged building must be torn down.

State lawmakers are introducing legislation that would give the families of EMTs killed in the line of duty the same death benefits as cops and firefighters.

«Growing up working on a farm, drilling water wells, serving as a volunteer firefighter, I felt the frustration of working just to make ends meet,» Rhodes says in the spot, «So I'm running a very different type of campaign.

A bipartisan group of state lawmakers is looking to amend any reference to a firefighter or police officer throughout state law to be gender neutral, a change they see as fixing antiquated law that refers to the holders of such jobs as men.

Ms. Crowley had previously racked up the backing of uniformed unions like the police captains and firefighters, as well as the painter's union, where she was once herself a member.

The firefighters and rescue workers first digging by hand and passing buckets of rubble were soon replaced by mechanical equipment as life was no longer to be sought or found on the site.

De Blasio is also is calling for an overhaul of housing programs and tax incentives to spur the construction of tens of thousands of apartments for poor New Yorkers, as well as teachers, firefighters and other workers, who increasingly find themselves priced out of a booming real estate market and rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods.

«Sean Coffey is the right person with the right qualifications to represent all of the people of New York State as Attorney General,» said NYSPFFA President Mike McManus, whose organization includes 103 professional firefighter unions from Buffalo to Long Island.

Faso was never accused of a crime or personally held liable for the improper pension contact, but the Albany Times Union cited «a source close to the investigation» in reporting that «Faso arranged or tried to arrange meetings between the investment firm Kellner DiLeo & Co. and officials at the state Common Retirement Fund, as well as the teachers, police and firefighter funds.»

To participate in a live fire training exercise at one of the county's fire training facilities, all participants must have successfully completed a NYS OFPC Firefighter 1 course (or equivalent); or be participating as part of their enrollment a NYS OFPC Firefighter 1 course.

SELKIRK — The push by Democrats to preserve the deductibility of state and local taxes came to a front lawn here on Monday, as local politicians, firefighters, housewives and a little boy with a lollipop flanked Sen. Chuck Schumer and Gov. Andrew Cuomo while they argued their case.

«I am honored to have been selected by Commissioner Nigro to lead the establishment of an independent agency to operate the Fire Pension Fund and enhance the quality and level of service afforded to firefighters and fire officers as they approach retirement after providing years of selfless service to the citizens of New York City,» Cassidy said at the time.

Fire company officials should complete sections A and B, as well as fields 1 through 10 of the attached DCJS — VFF Volunteer Firefighter Inquiry Form, and should use the applicant / transferee driver's license and another form of identification (such as a birth certificate, passport or social security card) when completing the forms.

Governor Andrew Cuomo is promising police and firefighters in New York City a better deal on their disability benefits, as a budget watch dog group warns against the proliferation of end of session bills that give union workers more benefits.

«We're going to take a wait and see approach as other counties implement this to see if some of the concerns brought up by numerous firefighting officials play out to be true,» McMahon said.

As Political Director of the New York City Central Labor Council, Carrión has forged deep partnerships among 300 local unions from every trade, occupation, and public and private sector of the New York economy, representing a wide spectrum of workers, including teachers, truck drivers, operating engineers, nurses, construction workers, electricians, firefighters, retail workers, janitors, train operators, bakers, and many more who are the face of today's workforce.

For the third year in a row, the state Committee on Open Government is calling for the repeal or overhaul of a controversial statute that blocks public access to the disciplinary records of police and correction officers, as well as firefighters.

Dan McCoy was elected in 2011 as Albany county's fourth executive: the former city firefighter once chaired the legislature, which holds much of the power to run the county.

A month after he got his grim diagnosis, a group of firefighters from one of his old houses, Engine 48 / Ladder 56 in the Bronx, traveled to his home in Valley Cottage, Rockland County to spruce up his yard as he underwent chemotherapy.