fire department
Example Sentences
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The fire department received 674 calls for assistance from Wednesday through the early hours of Thursday.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026
After the sun came up, "we watched the water recede little by little" before the fire department arrived, Mikey said.
From BBC • Mar. 22, 2026
But the painful details of the fire — the missteps of the fire department, the empty reservoir — didn’t matter when it came to deciding how to rebuild, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 2026
One early party he planned—a Halloween rave at a defunct plastics plant that was a registered toxic-waste site—was shut down by the fire department after it deemed the place unsafe.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 27, 2026
Hardly any-body could tell you the name of a city councilman, or a county commissioner, or the head of the public works department, or the planning department, or the fire department.
From "Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream" by H.G. Bissinger
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