1.   Firefighters had to cut off the roof of the car, so that the injured man could be lifted out.

2.   Firefighters had to force the lock.

3.   Firefighters had to wait for the mains to be turned off before engineers could cap the broken pipe in Swindon.

4.   Station officer John Finlay said the firefighters had their work cut out to lift the animal out.

5.   And while that preparation paid off Tuesday, the firefighters also had good fortune on their side, Pine said.

6.   Black firefighters have their own union, the Birmingham Brothers Association.

7.   All county firefighters have some training in stabilizing collapsed structures and extractions of people, Jordan said.

8.   But in the Southwest, the situation is so dire that firefighters will have to pounce on every fire to keep catastrophic events from exploding.

9.   But the pumps had been repaired in the meantime, and firefighters had the water pressure they needed.

10.   But the pumps had been repaired meantime and firefighters had the water pressure they needed.