That is the difference. Firemen and firefighter. I think the original term (back in the 1600s) was fire warden though.
>>The men who shoveled coal into the boiler for the steam engine were called firemen.
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>And the men who are nowadays called firefighters were called...? :)
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>My list of words missing in English is only 322 rows long for now. Actually, this makes it 323. Make that 324 - no word for "feed fuel to fire".
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