Building Quote by Denis Leary

My uncle's house burned down when I was 6 years old. We got out safely. But ever since, I've had a nightmare of dying…

— David Copperfield

Firefighters go where they're needed, sometimes ignoring the dangers even when no one is inside a burning building to be saved.

— Bill Dedman

My father was a wildfire. Really. Nobody could save him from anything. His family turned away from him, and he broke up with his…

— John Carter Cash

In addition to my cousin, there were 30 or 40 guys I grew up with who became firefighters as well. So, I've been around…

— Denis Leary

I knew about my grandmother's husband who died in the Albion coal disaster. But I didn't know a brother died in the same disaster…

— Shakin' Stevens

I actually covered a fire once at the apartment complex where I was living.

— Ernie Johnson Jr

“There were 11,000 firefighters in the department.”

— Lauren Tarshis

I remember in 1967, when there was that terrible fire on NASA's Apollo 1 rocket that killed three astronauts, my father made pure oxygen…

— Jack W. Szostak

They walked still farther and the girl said, "Is it true that long ago firemen put fires out instead of going to start them?"…

— Ray Bradbury

As a result of playing Freddy Krueger, I can remember having to look at some medical books, and at some of the disfigurement that…

— Robert Englund

My brother once lit his leg on fire. And after, when the fire was finally out, his leg was covered in third-degree burns. And…

— Tara Westover

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but…

— Roger Bannister