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America’s federal government employs a dizzying range of workers: mail carriers and mapmakers, firefighters and fish biologists, volcanologists positioned on tectonic-plate boundaries, cooks on Navy submarines.—Charlie Tyson, The New Yorker, 15 Mar. 2025 One firefighter was killed helping fight the blaze.—Stephen Underwood, Hartford Courant, 14 Mar. 2025 Police officers and firefighters discovered the victim, now 32, on Feb. 17 while responding to a report of an active fire at a residence on Blake Street in Waterbury.—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 13 Mar. 2025 The law benefits a diverse group of workers, including teachers, firefighters, police officers, federal employees under the Civil Service Retirement System and individuals whose careers were linked to foreign social security systems.—Raja Krishnamoorthi, Newsweek, 13 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for firefighter
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