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

Leal wants answers about everything from potential health hazards and impacts on the local water supply to whether the fire department is equipped to handle a large-scale electrical blaze.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 23, 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

Even the fire department used fire: Steam engines powered the pumps on the department’s horse-drawn fire trucks.

From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson