fire department
Example Sentences
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The man was found under a car in the Nea Makri rural area early on Thursday, according to the fire department.
From BBC • Apr. 2, 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
But the painful details of the fire — the missteps of the fire department, the empty reservoir — didn’t matter when it came to deciding how to rebuild, he said.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 2, 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
As soon as the fire department puts out one blaze, another erupts somewhere else.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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