Then a typical firefighter spent 10 years or more in a department.

Some 20,000 firefighters will spend the holiday weekend battling forest fires in eight Western states with no rain in sight.

Others have worried that bunker pants would limit the length of time a firefighter could spend inside a burning building.

And he essentially said that firefighters spend about 5 percent of their workdays fighting fires, and the rest of the time not doing much of anything.

Working 24-hour shifts, the firefighters in Rockford spend a day and night at the fire station and then get the next 48 hours off.

The painting dominated the kitchen, where firefighters spent much of their down time.

Officials in Texas and Oklahoma said firefighters spent Wednesday mopping up hot spots and containing a small number of new fires.

The younger firefighter spent his summer vacation accompanying his mother to the hospital, and he called her every night to check on her.

At 10:10AM, a portion of the Pentagon collapsed; firefighters spent days trying to fully extinguish the blaze.

Many residents are county workers - firefighters, police officers and the like -and many spend their free hours sailing and fishing in the area.