"smoke-eater" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1920, International Fire Fighter, page 23",
          "text": "A. H. Strom, the “firemen’s friend,” who has been serving coffee and sandwiches to the smoke-eaters at practically every fire of importance in the last twenty years, also spoke, as did Tommy Allen, Civil War Veteran, and former fireman.",
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          "ref": "1927, The Express Messenger, page 13",
          "text": "In fact, six pieces of apparatus were called out as a result of the second and third alarms and the smoke was so thick that even some of the so-called “smoke-eaters” were overcome in their desperate efforts to check it.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1947, James Stevens, Paul Bunyan’s Bears, Seattle: Frank McCaffrey Publishers, page 111",
          "text": "The blaze was yet a fern fire, but it was what the smoke-eaters called a “hot job.”",
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        {
          "ref": "2001, Kathryn Shay, The Fire Within, Harlequin, page 79",
          "text": "In his southern drawl, Fire Chief Chase Talbot addressed the thirty or so smoke-eaters assembled in the academy classroom, the smile on his face warm and affectionate.",
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        "Alternative form of smoke eater."
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  "word": "smoke-eater"
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          "ref": "1920, International Fire Fighter, page 23",
          "text": "A. H. Strom, the “firemen’s friend,” who has been serving coffee and sandwiches to the smoke-eaters at practically every fire of importance in the last twenty years, also spoke, as did Tommy Allen, Civil War Veteran, and former fireman.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1927, The Express Messenger, page 13",
          "text": "In fact, six pieces of apparatus were called out as a result of the second and third alarms and the smoke was so thick that even some of the so-called “smoke-eaters” were overcome in their desperate efforts to check it.",
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        {
          "ref": "1947, James Stevens, Paul Bunyan’s Bears, Seattle: Frank McCaffrey Publishers, page 111",
          "text": "The blaze was yet a fern fire, but it was what the smoke-eaters called a “hot job.”",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2001, Kathryn Shay, The Fire Within, Harlequin, page 79",
          "text": "In his southern drawl, Fire Chief Chase Talbot addressed the thirty or so smoke-eaters assembled in the academy classroom, the smile on his face warm and affectionate.",
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