fire department

Example Sentences

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The man was found under a car in the Nea Makri rural area early on Thursday, according to the fire department.

From BBC • Apr. 2, 2026

Twenty-nine people were in the four-story building, which also housed apartments and a cosmetic clinic, at the time of the early morning collapse, according to the Minas Gerais state fire department.

From Barron's • Mar. 6, 2026

Palisades resident and architect Ardie Tavangarian is so confident in his design that he even asked the fire department if they could start a controlled fire on the property to test it all out.

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

It took the fire department an hour to extinguish the flames.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey