Seidel joined the department in 1925 as a division fire warden after graduation in 1921 from the University of Michigan with a degree in forestry and employment with private lumber companies.

The fire department here has been torn for months by dissension involving top personnel and the fight between the fire fighters association and the teamsters union.

He facilitated many civic organizations, including a fire department and a university.

A local government agency, often a fire department or emergency management agency, agrees to sponsor CERT within its jurisdiction.

The local Endicott Estate burned to the ground in 1904 after the local volunteer fire department, responding to three separate fires burning simultaneously, reached the Endicott fire last.

During the Edo period, the shogunate appointed administrators ( machi bugyō ) with jurisdiction over the police and ( beginning with the rule of Tokugawa Yoshimune ) the fire department ( machibikeshi ).

By 1902, the factory alone became " A great city with its own streets, its own police force, fire department and traffic laws.

Sometimes fierce waves springing up unexpectedly have led to dramatic rescues ; in one instance, a Cleveland resident trying to measure the dock near his house became trapped but was rescued by a fire department diver from Avon Lake, Ohio:

* 2002 – Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno, a fire destroys a luxurious department store where 1500 people are shopping.

In Copenhagen, Rømer made rules for building new houses, got the city's water supply and sewers back in order, ensured that the city's fire department got new and better equipment, and was the moving force behind the planning and making of new pavement in the streets and on the city squares.

Justly confident that the Roosevelt administration would support his initiative, from a suite in the Waldorf-Astoria hotel in New York, Bunau-Varilla arranged for the Panama City fire department to stage a revolution against Colombia.

In the spring of 1968 Gudrun Ensslin and Andreas Baader, joined by Thorwald Proll and Horst Söhnlein, set fire to two department stores in Frankfurt on 2 April as a protest against the Vietnam war.

Since 2002, Longyearbyen Community Council has had many of the same responsibilities of a municipality, including utilities, education, cultural facilities, fire department, roads and ports.

There was little communication between New York City Police Department and fire department commands even though an Office of Emergency Management ( OEM ) had been created in 1996 in part to provide such coordination.

In protest, squatters in Amsterdam had occupied a former fire department the week before the law began ( returning it to the owners control on 30 September ) and a riot occurred on 1 October when the police blocked a protest and led a horse charge upon it.

A fax received at the Nassau County, Florida fire department was forwarded to police, and from there to all city departments.

* November 29 – 104 people are killed in a Taiyo department store fire in Kumamoto, Kyūshū, Japan.

There are parks throughout the town as well as a fire department, post office, schools, a hospital, and a golf course.

Mayor Byrne rushed to the scene and ordered the fire department to stand down.

Then, through a smashed out 38th floor window, she told Goodwin, who was hanging from the building's side a floor below, that though she did not agree with his climbing of the John Hancock Center she certainly opposed the fire department knocking him to the ground below.

The city's fire department did not receive the first alarm until a fire alarm was pulled at a pharmacy at 9: 40 p. m., while the fire was still small.

Where schools, fire and police protection, and similar municipal services are of equal quality in city and country, real estate taxes are usually about the same.

The body caressed through my hands like cool satin, and my hands, usually tanned and dark, were pale beside it, and I asked it where the fire colors could come from the coolness of that body.

In either case the observation element usually controls fire in detail against the target, such as adjusting it onto the target, moving it and co-ordinating it with the supported arm as necessary to achieve the required effects.

Dragons are usually shown in modern times with a body like a huge lizard, or a snake with two pairs of lizard-type legs, and able to emit fire from their mouths.

If one item in a package or stack initiates, it will usually propagate to the other items, creating a mass fire.

The first " rapid firing " firearms were usually similar to the 19th century Gatling gun, which would fire cartridges from a magazine as fast as and as long as the operator turned a crank.

Semi-automatic pistols have a single fixed firing chamber machined into the rear of the barrel, and a magazine, usually removable, so they can be used to fire more than one round.

A shotgun usually retains its ancestor's smooth bore, and while originally designed to fire a packet of relatively small shot pellets, is also capable of firing larger slugs, or specialty ( often " less lethal ") rounds such as bean bags, tear gas or breaching rounds.

The M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle was the first U. S. infantry weapon of this type, and was generally used for suppressive or support fire in the role now usually filled by the light machine gun.

Many handloaders customize their cartridges to their specific firearms, usually in pursuit of accuracy: they can assemble precision ammunition using cartridge cases that have been fire formed in the chamber of a specific firearm.

They are differentiated from APCs — which are purely transport vehicles, armed only for self defence — because they are designed to give direct fire support to the dismounted infantry and so usually have significantly enhanced armament.

The jaguar is also a common fixture in the mythology of many contemporary native cultures in South America, usually being portrayed as the creature which gave humans the power over fire.

Kerosene is not usually used as fuel for indoor fire dancing, as it produces an unpleasant odor, which becomes poisonous in sufficient concentration.

According to Mark Kurlansky, " Smoked foods almost always carry with them legends about their having been created by accident — usually the peasant hung the food too close to the fire, and then, imagine his surprise the next morning when …".

Since combat engineers with mine-clearing equipment can clear a path through a minefield relatively quickly, mines are usually considered effective only if covered by fire.

When Prometheus decides to steal the secret of fire from the gods, Zeus becomes infuriated and decides to punish humankind with an " evil thing for their delight " — Pandora, the first woman, who carried a jar ( usually described — incorrectly — as a box ) she was told to never open.

A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire bullets in quick succession from an ammunition belt or magazine, typically at a rate of several hundred rounds per minute.

A common aiming system is to alternate solid (" ball ") rounds and tracer ammunition rounds ( usually one tracer round for every four ball rounds ), so shooters can see the trajectory and " walk " the fire into the target, and direct the fire of other soldiers.

The sap was usually transported using large barrels pulled by horses or oxen to a central collection point, where it was processed either over a fire built out in the open or inside a shelter built for that purpose ( the " sugar shack ").

Maple syrup is made by boiling between of sap ( depending on its concentration ) over an open fire until of syrup is obtained, usually at a temperature over the boiling point of water.

While the dividing line between machine pistols and compact submachine guns is hard to draw, the term " submachine gun " usually refers to larger automatic firearms scaled down from a full-sized machine gun to fire handgun rounds, while the term " machine pistol " usually refers to a weapon built up from a semi-automatic pistol design.

The terrain was usually chosen to put the archers at an advantage forcing their opponents into a bottleneck ( at Agincourt ) or a hard climb under fire ( at Crécy ).

The class usually labeled " feminine ", for instance, includes the word for fire and nouns relating to fire, as well as all dangerous creatures and phenomena.