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Fire department   /fˈaɪər dɪpˈɑrtmənt/   Listen
Fire department

noun
1.
The department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires.





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"Fire department" Quotes from Famous Books



... each term the students shall be organized into a Fire Department, the superintendent serving as chief and the matrons and teachers as his special aids. The fire-fighters shall include the pumpers and a bucket brigade; the life and property savers shall include the ladder squad; and the strenuous work of all shall continue until ...
— The Choctaw Freedmen - and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy • Robert Elliott Flickinger
... municipal advantages not already enumerated are a sewerage system, a fire department, a public library, police protection and a thoroughly modern system of water-works of a capacity sufficient to supply the entire corporation with absolutely pure water from a noted spring issuing near the ...
— History and Comprehensive Description of Loudoun County, Virginia • James W. Head


Words linked to "Fire department" :   fire brigade, department of local government, firefighter, local department, fire-eater, fireman, fire fighter


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