1. Exhausted firefighters had combed through most of the building by midday. 2. Exhausted volunteer firefighters and other rescue workers are returning now to their homes and jobs. 3. In the lobby, exhausted firefighters and their German shepherds were sitting on the floor amid broken glass. 4. Through the shattered windows of a Starbucks, I could see exhausted firefighters in surreal repose, sitting at tables drinking bottled water. 5. But exhausted firefighters with smoke-blackened faces remained on the mountainsides to ensure the flames would not spring back to life. 6. Evacuees were allowed back home Saturday as exhausted firefighters cleaned up a wind-driven forest fire that had threatened high-priced beach resort communities. 7. Exhausted volunteer firefighter Alex Hood said he would not stop until all the blazes were out. 8. Wildfires raging across Greece killed five more people Friday and prompted a declaration of a state of emergency in the south as civilian volunteers joined exhausted firefighters. 9. In a voice drained of emotion, one exhausted firefighter informed Pfeifer and his men that WTC Tower Number Two has been hit by a second plane. 10. Exhausted firefighters took advantage of milder weather in southeast Australia Saturday to carry out massive backburning to protect remote towns in the path of uncontrolled blazes. |