Firemen start fires. I saw a program about steam trains and the person who started and stoked the fire on the engine was called a fireman.
A childhood belief about trains
others believed things like this
- I used to believe that firemen drove around in their fire trucks and started fires. I wondered why.— Albert
- I used to believe that the Fire Station was where all fires occurred.Anon
- My uncle used to believe that he would grow up to be a fire engine or a tiger.
If only...— Josh Y. - Once I used to believe that a engineer is a person who drives railway engine.— Gaurav Jain
- I thought that hot water couldn't put out fires.— Matt
- I used to believe that arson was a flammable liquid, not the act of deliberately setting fires.— Joey Schwartzman