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
“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
He couldn’t find the play card for the hook and ladder, one of a handful of strategies at the end of a playoff game against New Orleans last season.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 10, 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
There was the tooting of a whistle, and a fire engine came dashing down the street, followed by a hose cart and a hook and ladder company.
From First at the North Pole Two Boys in the Arctic Circle by Stratemeyer, Edward
