1.   Firefighters managed to coax the man down from the roof.

2.   Firefighters managed to confine the fire to the living room.

3.   Firefighters managed to prevent the blaze spreading to other parts of the building.

4.   Firefighters managed to push a water hose through a side window but broke a fire axe while trying to smash out the windshield, they said.

5.   Firefighters managed to enter the cathedral and rescue the silver reliquary containing the shroud within two hours of the first report of the fire by a church custodian.

6.   Several other firefighters managed to escape, some suffering injuries as they scrambled towards exits with the floor sagging away beneath them.

7.   A worker was trapped in dirt and gravel at a landscaping project for more than four hours before firefighters managed to free him.

8.   Although firefighters managed to extinguish the blaze, the downtown building remained full of thick smoke.

9.   Although the quarters were destroyed, the firefighters managed to keep the fire from spreading to other parts of the building.

10.   But firefighters managed to gain some ground on the blaze.