1.   Firefighters used specialist equipment to deal with a chemical spill at a Washington firm last night.

2.   Darlington firefighters used rocket-propelled rescue lines to reach the two who were uninjured.

3.   An Internet site for the Edmond, Okla.-based Law Enforcement Thermographers Association shows that firefighters use the devices to find people trapped in smoke-filled rooms.

4.   Firefighters used a rowboat to get several customers out of the Citizens Bank branch there.

5.   Firefighters used pickaxes to dig an outline around the bodies, slowly separating them from the debris.

6.   Firefighters used to dash to an accident, and then hand over the patient to a private ambulance for the trip to hospital.

7.   Firefighters were using large flagpole flags from their storage because stores were sold out of smaller ones.

8.   Firefighters used ladders to get past gaps in the stairs.

9.   In Hartford, Conn., firefighters used metal detectors to locate hydrants.

10.   Jim Wells, a spokesman for the Los Angeles City Fire Department, said Los Angeles firefighters used a truck equipped with heavy lifting equipment to hoist Tara.