Talk:Firefighter

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You never play with fire 🔥 220.253.3.1 (talk) 11:08, 17 April 2024 (UTC)

Fundraiser Sources

How about this for a potential source? https://www.cityofkearney.org/528/Fundraising Prairie Astronomer ^Talk 14:03, 6 March 2021 (UTC)

Notable firefighters

Surely this should only include those with a Wikipedia page otherwise they're not exactly notable? Escaper27 (talk) 18:10, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Yes, that tends to be the rule on most pages. Notability is indicated by having a Wikipedia article, or at least a sub-section of a Wikipedia article.Timothy Titus ^{Talk To TT} 19:42, 23 March 2021 (UTC)

Change of name from FB to F&R

In Australia at least, Fire and Rescue used to be called the Fire Brigade. All of a sudden, the FB in every state seems to have been renamed Fire and Rescue. The old FB has performed the Rescue function for a long time. When did this name change occur? ----MountVic127 (talk) 22:28, 12 April 2021 (UTC)

Alternate names

• Fire and emergency
• Fire department rescuers

References

Firefighter Games

Firefighters have on at least one occassion held an internation "Olympic" games competition. Does ant one have any details? ----MountVic127 (talk) 00:56, 13 April 2021 (UTC)

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Question for whoever can answer...

• Hi Shadow Wizard here, just wondering if it would be okay if i had added a section dedicated to Training and how to become a Firefighter. — Preceding unsigned comment added by ShadowWizardMoney (talk • contribs) 20:31, 27 November 2023 (UTC)

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Firefighter vs firemen vs firewomen

I see that there’s a distinction made here:

Male firefighters are sometimes referred to as firemen (and, less commonly, female firefighters as firewomen)

However, the citations listed are a bit… suspect? Firstly, they’re both referring to the same “Peppa Pig incident”.

Secondly, the sources are describing people wildly overreacting to the term “firemen” as inherently sexist. Hardly authoritative sources for what is a linguistic claim.

Meanwhile, when you look at dictionaries like the Merriam-Webster, you can see that fireman is clearly a gender-neutral term. “A member of the fire department” SkylightPenguin (talk) 14:51, 13 May 2026 (UTC)