hook and ladder
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Known internally as 200 Series engines, they are identical to other engines and usually paired with hook and ladder trucks, which do not carry water.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 20, 2025
The hook and ladder resulted in a touchdown.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2022
“Prices have gone up significantly,” John Mohlenhoff, secretary of the hook and ladder company for the Huntington fire department, told the newspaper.
From Seattle Times • Nov. 21, 2021
Alan Goldfarb Dear Diary: In high school in the ’50s, often I would look out the window and see a New York Fire Department hook and ladder truck drive by.
From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2010
There was a crowd in the side street and more engines and hook and ladder trucks were dashing up to help put out the fire.
From The Bobbsey Twins in a Great City by Hope, Laura Lee
