Sentences with phrase «wounded in the firefight»

A Transit Authority officer, Richard Donahue, was severely wounded in the firefight.

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Fire and police unions have been hammering the mayor for his refusal to back a reversal to a 2009 state law that cut the disability retirement benefits for firefighters or police officers who are wounded in the line of duty if they were hired after July 2009.

Mr. de Blasio made the decision to hit the gym in his old neighborhood of Park Slope mid-morning last Friday — and stayed there almost two hours while police and firefighters engaged a gang leader in a tense standoff on Staten Island that left an FDNY lieutenant hospitalized with gunshot wounds.

Or a platoon of infantrymen could telepathically call in a helicopter to whisk away their wounded in the midst of a deafening firefight, where intelligible speech would be impossible above the din of explosions.

With a streak of blood worn proudly on his temple as representative of Stephen Crane's manifest valour (the only injury our invulnerable flyboy hero sustains even in the midst of a withering firefight between three American combat helicopters and an armoured division of murderous Serbs (or Muslims, or Croats — they're not sure so we're not either), save for a flesh wound to the shoulder), the great irony of stranded Navy Navigator Burnett's (Owen Wilson) red badge of courage is that it's acquired when he ejects from his own downed aircraft.

In December 2015, a dog dubbed «Tailboard» was taken in by a group of Corpus Christi Professional Firefighters — Tailboard, who was rescued from a Texas animal control agency, wound up becoming the unofficial mascot for Fire Station 1In December 2015, a dog dubbed «Tailboard» was taken in by a group of Corpus Christi Professional Firefighters — Tailboard, who was rescued from a Texas animal control agency, wound up becoming the unofficial mascot for Fire Station 1in by a group of Corpus Christi Professional Firefighters — Tailboard, who was rescued from a Texas animal control agency, wound up becoming the unofficial mascot for Fire Station 14.

Béland was not phased, he assured us that both fans and non-fans of the franchise would enjoy the action, and during his playthrough there was one moment in which he didn't kill every single person perfectly, and wound up in a firefight.

«Gory image published of wounded detainee»: Sunday in The Miami Herald, Carol Rosenberg had an article that begins, «A Toronto newspaper on Saturday published a graphic photo of long - held Guantanamo captive Omar Khadr, a Canadian youth captured during a 2002 firefight with U.S. forces in Afghanistan and severely wounded in his chest.»

Last Wednesday, the helicopters and planes used in conjunction with firefighters could not fly because of the 50 - plus mile - per - hour winds, delaying containment efforts.

Firefighters contained the blaze to the structure, but wind - blown embers destroyed or damaged 43 apartments in the nearby Moorpark neighborhood, leaving 100 people homeless.