11.   The social compact under which the firefighters work and sometimes die is strained as never before.

12.   They became friends in Telluride, Colo., where the future firefighter worked for five years as a carpenter in the warm months and skied in the cold.

13.   With Warren upside-down and fuel leaking from the aircraft, firefighters worked frantically to stabilize the plane, then extricate its pilot.

14.   Power was cut off as a precaution throughout the San Juan area, except around where firefighters were working.

15.   Emergency workers helped bloodied men in business suits while firefighters worked to put out the blaze.

16.   Firefighters were working in cooperation with Esso employees Saturday to cool down equipment so gas supply valves could be shut down.

17.   Firefighters were working to keep the flames from spreading to a fourth freight car.

18.   Firefighters worked into the night as flames stubbornly flickered on upper floors.

19.   Firefighters worked Monday for a second day to put out a blaze here that swept through a steel factory warehouse, filled with tanks of flammable oil.

20.   Firefighters worked Thursday to extinguish a forest blaze that has burned hundreds of acres of cork oaks and forced the evacuation of residents from a town in southern Spain.