A firefighter (or fire fighter or fireman) is a first responder trained in public safety and emergency response such as firefighting, primarily to control and extinguish fires and respond to emergencies such as hazardous material incidents, medical emergencies, road traffic collisions and other emergencies that threaten life, property and the ...
The meaning of FIREMAN is a person who tends or feeds fires : stoker.
FIREMAN definition: a person employed to extinguish or prevent fires; firefighter. See examples of fireman used in a sentence.
(Definition of fireman from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)
A fireman is charged with duties ranging from saving lives to keeping firefighting equipment clean. At a moment's notice, a fireman must be ready to perform job functions such as rescuing people or animals from burning or collapsed buildings, fighting fires and providing emergency medical assistance.
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