Fireman

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The term Fireman or Fire Officer can refer to:

• A firefighter. Traditionally, the term fireman denoted someone who was employed to fight fires. Now the unisex term firefighter is sometimes preferred, as both males and females may be firefighters

• A Firefighter who has obtained a certain rank (normally Sub Officer or Watch Commander or above or whom is an officer who works within the Fire Safety and Inspections department of a Fire Authority / Fire and Rescue Service

• In steam railroading, a fireman or a boilerman was the designation for someone whose job it was to tend the fire for running the steam engine of a locomotive.

• In other kinds of locomotive, a second crewman who monitors operations is also called a fireman.

• On a steamboat a fireman was the designation for someone whose job it was to tend the fire for running the steam engine.

• In baseball, a fireman is a relief pitcher whose role is to end an inning with runners in scoring position in addition to relieving a tired starting pitcher.

• In the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, a fireman is a person whose job was to start fires to burn books.

• Fireman (Faiyāman) is a tokusatsu superhero TV series released in 1973. It is better known as Magma Man internationally.

• Fire Man is a Robot Master from the Mega Man series of action-platformers, written with a space to avoid confusion.

• The Fireman is one Turboman enemy

• Fireman is an animated short made in 1931.

• In the United States Navy and United States Coast Guard, Fireman is a variation of the Seaman ranks reserved for Engineering specialists.

• The Fireman is the name of a techno collective that includes Paul McCartney and Youth

• Fireman (song) is a song from Lil Wayne album Tha Carter II
• The Fireman (film), a Charlie Chaplin film
• Fireman is the nickname of American guitarist and musician Chris Burke
• Fireman is a rare slang term for pyromaniac