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		<title>FIREFIGHTER&#8217;S WORDS -596- ONE MORE CALL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The thing that keeps me getting up at 3 a.m. to make &#8220;one more call&#8221; is the opportunity to improve my skills and to work with new firefighters learning the trade. As a Reserve Firefighter (read volunteer) I have the opportunity to work with recruits while they are training to become paid  firefighters. Many of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -595- HUSBAND AND WIFE TEAM</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My husband and I are both volunteers for a very active department outside the city limits of Benton, AR (Salem Fire Department).  He&#8217;s been a firefighter for 4 years and I&#8217;ve been on the department just 10 months&#8230;but what an active year it&#8217;s been! In 10 months I&#8217;ve fought 10 structure fires&#8230;3 with interior attacks! [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -594- ROCKET SCIENCE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I was taking S-339, one of the instructors made a comment to the class that “wildland fire isn’t rocket science”. Immediately, the other instructor said, “that’s right, wildland fire isn’t rocket science. It’s way more complicated than rocket science”!]]></description>
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		<title>FIREFIGHTER&#8217;S WORDS -593- WHAT DOES THE FIRE THINK?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In the words of Stephen Pyne, a professor in the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, “Fire isn’t listening. It doesn’t feel our pain. It doesn’t care – really, really doesn’t care. It understands a language of wind, drought, woods, grass, brush and terrain, and it will ignore anything stated otherwise.” &#160; &#160; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE HINDENBERG DISASTER WAS?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The German airship Hindenburg was destroyed by fire in Lakehurst, NJ, 75 years ago. This is a copy of a May 6, 1937 photograph of the Hindenburg as it burst into flames over the Lakehurst Naval Air Station. One of the figures seen at right rear is Robert Buchanan of Waretown, who at 17 was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>FIREFIGHTER&#8217;S WORDS -592-  A FIRE EXPLORER GIVES CPR</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#160; It was my second ride along as an explorer at the fire department. The morning starts off checking inventory, cleaning engine/ambulance/truck for the new shift. Cleaned the fire house, then sat down for morning crew meetings and did introductions. Within the first 5 minutes we get a medical call, while heading over to the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -591- MY DAD SAID IT WAS A WASTE OF TIME</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I guess my start was from &#8216;Emergency, &#8216; the tv show.  When I joined my local volunteer department in 1991, I was a typical rookie.  Made the top five responders for that year. Hours and hours at the hall, doing maintenance, filling extinguishers, etc., whatever needed doing About 6 months, (just off probation) into service, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WORDS OF FIREFIGHTERS -590- MY GOAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[My fire life hasn&#8217;t been  that great. I was with  a FD since I was 13 until 18, when I did something stupid and got arrested. The charges were dropped to a misdemeanor but the FD asked me to resign . I didn&#8217;t like it there that much anyways and most of the young guys [...]]]></description>
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		<title>AUSSIE FIREFIGHTERS MAKE DARING RESCUE</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Australian firefighters on Thursday performed one of their most unusual rescues &#8212; freeing an woman whose fingers got stuck in a bank ATM. The fire service was called to a hospital in Sydney after security guards found the women with three of her fingers jammed in the slot that dispenses cash.. The crew pried the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NEW US FOREST SERVICE AERIAL TANKER FOR FIREFIGHTING</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The USFS just released pictures of the newest weapon in the fight to stop wildfires from the air. This new hybrid tanker holds maximum water. It takes in seawater from a tear in the side! &#160;]]></description>
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