hook and ladder
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Known internally as 200 Series engines, they are identical to other engines and placed around the city, usually paired with hook and ladder trucks, which do not carry water.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 14, 2025
The hook and ladder resulted in a touchdown.
From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 13, 2022
Q. Coach Meyer, you referenced the hook and ladder.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 31, 2018
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
I hear the gong of the engines as the procession moves along—the hook and ladder company, the Tigers and the Deluge company, all decorated with flowers, flags and evergreens.
From Some Reminiscences of old Victoria by Fawcett, Edgar
