fire department

Example Sentences

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Tom and Eleni then sprayed the fire with garden hoses to prevent the blaze from spreading to the home until the fire department arrived.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 17, 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

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

Safety controls, validated by the fire department, must be implemented for the storage of this fuel, the businessman told AFP, but "the institutions themselves are not able to clearly outline all the steps."

From Barron's • Feb. 19, 2026

According to the fire department, our whole house would have been up in flames if they'd been called fifteen minutes later.

From "Americanized" by Sara Saedi