No more slide to the ride.Alarms sound, and firefighters rain from the ceiling, sliding down slippery metal. poles to reach their trucks within seconds. This scene is becoming a thing of the past, as cities build one-story firehouses and update older facilities. In New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. firehouses, pores are being removed and the holes seated up so that ducts can be installed for central, air-conditioning. Some firefighters object. "Now, at 4 o'clock in the morning, you've got 11 guys going down the stairs Adv. 1. down the stairs - on a floor below; "the tenants live downstairs" downstairs, on a lower floor, below ," says one veteran. "Stupidest thing you ever heard of." But the firehouse pole, with its 20-foot drop to a concrete floor, can be risky. Firefighters tell of friction burns A friction burn is when two surfaces rub together to cause friction, resulting in damage to one of the surfaces, which causes pain. For instance, when someone rubs themselves against a carpet, a burn appears on that person's skin where the stratum corneum, the stratum granulosum, , sprains, fractures Fractures Definition A fracture is a complete or incomplete break in a bone resulting from the application of excessive force. Description , even broken backs. But each firefighter took pride in developing a particular style of sliding, and the true experts were said to be able to take the plunge head first. |
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