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The term Fireman 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 fireman is an ambiguous term and can refer to either firefighters or railroad/naval engineers.

  • 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.

  • Fireman is also an animated short made in 1931.

 

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