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fire department

noun as in engine company

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In Montgomery County, most crashes involved one vehicle — cars into guard rails, jersey barriers and trees — in the southern part of the county on and near the Capital Beltway, said Pete Piringer, spokesman for the county’s fire department.

Collins said he was worried for his friends, first responders in the largest combination municipal fire department in the country who had been confronting this virus for nearly a year in the county hit harder than any other in Maryland.

City leaders here asked the police and fire departments to start by looking for at least 2 percent in cuts.

The police and fire department will need to suggest 2 percent in cuts, while other city services like parks and recreation, the library department and the city auditor’s office are being asked to suggest 8 percent cuts to their budget.

Across the country, 911 calls are answered by a patchwork of nonprofit, for-profit, hospital-affiliated, fire department and municipal-run services.

Craig-Lewis was an 11-year veteran of the Philadelphia Fire Department, a position she had aspired to since grade school.

The New York City Fire Department had lost seven hundred and seventy-eight men from its founding in 1865 until September 10, 2001.

One was the Parks Commissioner, and the other the Fire Department Commissioner, who had a personal stake in the races.

The same is true with a fire department when a firefighter is critically injured.

The Fire Department put out all these physical and visceral burnings.

In Buffalo is a woman who runs a street-cleaning bureau; in Kansas City a woman is at the head of a fire department.

"Call out the fire department, probably," said Eleanor flippantly.

He served in the volunteer fire department of Walla Walla for twenty-two years, six of which he was chief.

In many towns and cities there is much of interest connected with the fire department.

He was to be appointed by the board of trustees of the fire department, and confirmed by the Board of Aldermen.

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On this page you'll find 3 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to fire department, such as: fire brigade, and fire company.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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