Fireman

The term Fireman can refer to:

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• A firefighter. Traditionally, the term fireman denoted someone who was employed to fight fires. Now the unisex term firefighter is preferred, as fireman is an ambiguous term and can refer to either firefighters or railroad/naval engineers.
• In steam railroading, a fireman or a boiler-man was the designation for someone whose job it was to tend the fire for running the steam engine of a locomotive.
• In the Ray Bradbury novel Fahrenheit 451, a fireman is a person whose job was to start fires to burn banned books. Since paper ignites at 451 degrees F, the title of the book therefore suggests the burning of paper.
• Fireman (Faiy?man) is a tokusatsu superhero TV series released in 1973. It is better known as Magma Man internationally.
• Fire Man is also a Robot Master from the Mega Man series of action-platformers, written with a space to avoid confusion.
• Fireman is also an animated short made in 1931.
• In the United States Navy, 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