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Lake Mead has a number of these distant cousins to the Higgins Boat, still in daily use on the lake doing everything from firefighting to servicing our remote campsites and beaches. – The NPS	Found on CNN 1 year ago
Firefighters are fully engaged The Hermits Peak Fire have the whole suite of The Hermits Peak Fire firefighting forces available -- air resources, ground resources, intelligence resources. – Incident Commander Carl Schwope	Found on CNN 1 year ago
My rank was E-5, or Second Class Petty Officer. During my five years of service, I worked on the tarmac, in aviation logistics, was on the ship's security defense team and the repair locker fire team( firefighting and damage control). Definitely a variety of jobs and experiences, which I am thankful for. – Jennifer Marshall	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Our primary focus is on protection of the communities and always will be, and that's where most of the firefighting efforts are focused. – Clayton Jordan	Found on CNN 2 years ago
It’s a hard pill to swallow for all of us in the firefighting community, because we want to put these fires to bed, we just may not be able to do that on every one of these fires, because of the conditions we’re facing. – Ken Pimlott	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
That’s definitely not going to help the firefighting efforts. – Courtney Coats	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
A long term vision is about prevention and planning while a short term vision is for cure and firefighting – Zin Eddine Dadach	added by zdadach_1 2 years ago
It’s a dangerous job, if you’re going to do firefighting you have to have some realization that danger and the fact that you’re in harm’s way on a daily basis is part of the job. – Ryan Meehan	Found on FOX News 2 years ago
Early this evening our firefighting teams successfully put out the fire inside the Golden Ray wreck, safety is our highest priority and every member of the response displayed tremendous commitment to ensuring that emergency plans were followed during the entire fire fighting and evacuation evolution. – Coast Guard Cmdr. Efren Lopez	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Continued closures are based on extreme fire conditions, critical limitations of firefighting resources, and to provide for firefighter and public safety. – Randy Moore	Found on CNN 3 years ago
Although the Chinooks have been deployed, the Oregon Department of Forestry is currently at capacity with more than 40 overall aviation assets. We have been utilizing Blackhawk helicopters to assist in firefighting efforts since Governor Brown declared a state of emergency due to heightened wildfire weather conditions on August 19, we now have eight Blackhawks available, six dedicated to Bambi bucket water drop operations, and two available for search and rescue. We also currently have two UH-72 Lakotas assisting officials with fire mapping to keep track of the fires. – Stephen Bomar	Found on FOX News 3 years ago
Our local crews have been actively involved in firefighting since August and we are still long way from being out of the woods, so we are talking six or seven months of firefighting. – Martin Webster	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
Unfortunately, aircraft are one of the riskiest parts of wildland firefighting. – Eric Kennedy	Found on Reuters 4 years ago
[ Its ] help we didnt ask for. The G-7 help was decided without Brazil. AMAZON WILDFIRES GET SOME HELP FROM US FIREFIGHTING PLANE At the G-7 summit on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the Amazon, while mostly in Brazil, is a worldwide issue, and thatthe world can not allow Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to ruin the entire globe. We respect your sovereignty. Its your country. – Emmanuel Macron	Found on FOX News 4 years ago
ITC and our ERT (emergency response team) responded immediately and we called both CIMA (an industry mutual aid group) and surrounding municipalities for additional firefighting resources, right now, we're just focused on the recovery effort. – Intercontinental Terminals Co	Found on Reuters 5 years ago
At the moment this is more like firefighting and reactionary, people need to be educated. – Arist Merdeka Sirait	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We as a national firefighting community are spread very thin, we do reach out to internal employees, as a lot of those people do maintain some fire qualifications. – Randy Eardley	Found on CNN 8 years ago
The U.S. military has been a key partner in wildland firefighting for decades, and we greatly appreciate their willingness to provide us with soldiers to serve as firefighters. – Aitor Bidaburu	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Firefighting personnel continue to aggressively work in treacherous terrain, providing structure defense and improving containment lines. All road closures will remain closed. The terrain is brush covered, rugged and steep, with difficult access. – Cal Fire	Found on CNN 8 years ago
Many families, mostly children and mothers who found refuge on rooftops, were rescued from the deluge by the army's firefighting brigade. – Beti Assomo	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
We have issued a red alert to get more resources to the area ... today we have 30 firefighters from Argentina and we are now coordinating with (firefighting) crews in Brazil and Uruguay, though we still don't know when they will arrive. – Interior Undersecretary Mahmud Aleuy	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
Today crews are working to remove the final few derailed cars from the right of way and proceed with repairs to the track, due to the bitter cold conditions and isolated location, safety and firefighting experts have allowed the remaining controlled fire at the core of the derailment to burn. – Patrick Waldron	Found on Reuters 9 years ago
There are numerous barriers, like sills, that would block a wheeled robot. In addition, a humanoid robot can use firefighting gear designed for humans, such as protective coats, backpack fire suppressants, hand-held sensors and hose nozzles. – Thomas McKenna	Found on CNN 9 years ago

Lake Mead has a number of these distant cousins to the Higgins Boat, still in daily use on the lake doing everything from firefighting to servicing our remote campsites and beaches.

– The NPS

Found on CNN
1 year ago

Firefighters are fully engaged The Hermits Peak Fire have the whole suite of The Hermits Peak Fire firefighting forces available -- air resources, ground resources, intelligence resources.

– Incident Commander Carl Schwope

Found on CNN
1 year ago

My rank was E-5, or Second Class Petty Officer. During my five years of service, I worked on the tarmac, in aviation logistics, was on the ship's security defense team and the repair locker fire team( firefighting and damage control). Definitely a variety of jobs and experiences, which I am thankful for.

– Jennifer Marshall

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Our primary focus is on protection of the communities and always will be, and that's where most of the firefighting efforts are focused.

– Clayton Jordan

Found on CNN
2 years ago

It’s a hard pill to swallow for all of us in the firefighting community, because we want to put these fires to bed, we just may not be able to do that on every one of these fires, because of the conditions we’re facing.

– Ken Pimlott

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

That’s definitely not going to help the firefighting efforts.

– Courtney Coats

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

A long term vision is about prevention and planning while a short term vision is for cure and firefighting

– Zin Eddine Dadach

added by zdadach_1
2 years ago

It’s a dangerous job, if you’re going to do firefighting you have to have some realization that danger and the fact that you’re in harm’s way on a daily basis is part of the job.

– Ryan Meehan

Found on FOX News
2 years ago

Early this evening our firefighting teams successfully put out the fire inside the Golden Ray wreck, safety is our highest priority and every member of the response displayed tremendous commitment to ensuring that emergency plans were followed during the entire fire fighting and evacuation evolution.

– Coast Guard Cmdr. Efren Lopez

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Continued closures are based on extreme fire conditions, critical limitations of firefighting resources, and to provide for firefighter and public safety.

– Randy Moore

Found on CNN
3 years ago

Although the Chinooks have been deployed, the Oregon Department of Forestry is currently at capacity with more than 40 overall aviation assets. We have been utilizing Blackhawk helicopters to assist in firefighting efforts since Governor Brown declared a state of emergency due to heightened wildfire weather conditions on August 19, we now have eight Blackhawks available, six dedicated to Bambi bucket water drop operations, and two available for search and rescue. We also currently have two UH-72 Lakotas assisting officials with fire mapping to keep track of the fires.

– Stephen Bomar

Found on FOX News
3 years ago

Our local crews have been actively involved in firefighting since August and we are still long way from being out of the woods, so we are talking six or seven months of firefighting.

– Martin Webster

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

Unfortunately, aircraft are one of the riskiest parts of wildland firefighting.

– Eric Kennedy

Found on Reuters
4 years ago

[ Its ] help we didnt ask for. The G-7 help was decided without Brazil. AMAZON WILDFIRES GET SOME HELP FROM US FIREFIGHTING PLANE At the G-7 summit on Monday, French President Emmanuel Macron said the Amazon, while mostly in Brazil, is a worldwide issue, and thatthe world can not allow Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to ruin the entire globe. We respect your sovereignty. Its your country.

– Emmanuel Macron

Found on FOX News
4 years ago

ITC and our ERT (emergency response team) responded immediately and we called both CIMA (an industry mutual aid group) and surrounding municipalities for additional firefighting resources, right now, we're just focused on the recovery effort.

– Intercontinental Terminals Co

Found on Reuters
5 years ago

At the moment this is more like firefighting and reactionary, people need to be educated.

– Arist Merdeka Sirait

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We as a national firefighting community are spread very thin, we do reach out to internal employees, as a lot of those people do maintain some fire qualifications.

– Randy Eardley

Found on CNN
8 years ago

The U.S. military has been a key partner in wildland firefighting for decades, and we greatly appreciate their willingness to provide us with soldiers to serve as firefighters.

– Aitor Bidaburu

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Firefighting personnel continue to aggressively work in treacherous terrain, providing structure defense and improving containment lines. All road closures will remain closed. The terrain is brush covered, rugged and steep, with difficult access.

– Cal Fire

Found on CNN
8 years ago

Many families, mostly children and mothers who found refuge on rooftops, were rescued from the deluge by the army's firefighting brigade.

– Beti Assomo

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

We have issued a red alert to get more resources to the area ... today we have 30 firefighters from Argentina and we are now coordinating with (firefighting) crews in Brazil and Uruguay, though we still don't know when they will arrive.

– Interior Undersecretary Mahmud Aleuy

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

Today crews are working to remove the final few derailed cars from the right of way and proceed with repairs to the track, due to the bitter cold conditions and isolated location, safety and firefighting experts have allowed the remaining controlled fire at the core of the derailment to burn.

– Patrick Waldron

Found on Reuters
9 years ago

There are numerous barriers, like sills, that would block a wheeled robot. In addition, a humanoid robot can use firefighting gear designed for humans, such as protective coats, backpack fire suppressants, hand-held sensors and hose nozzles.

– Thomas McKenna

Found on CNN
9 years ago

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