Because of firefighting's predominantly male participants, firefighters used to be called firemen.

The Kuwaitis piped in water from the sea that the firefighters used to put down the flames.

Many firefighters used the tower's elevators, which are designed to work even during a fire.

But some of the apartments were flooded from the water firefighters had used to douse the blaze.

They perform a fake disaster where the firefighters use their equipment.

The firefighters are using virtually the same models that the heart association is advocating for public use.

With both systems knocked out, firefighters could not use the building's pumps, lights or elevators.

Places where the firefighters had used water were frozen, making the footing treacherous.

Small fires can be put out with water; firefighters use dynamite on larger ones to burn off the available oxygen.

Another said that firefighters had used his house as a staging area and thus may have fought especially hard to keep it intact.