fire bell

More than fifteen years earlier, an aging Thomas Jefferson had said the dispute over slavery was like “a fire bell in the night...filled me with terror.”

There was a tall fire bell in the cemetery, which alerted everyone.

Pontypandy's most famous resident actually heard his fire bell chime on Welsh language TV first as Sam Tan.

As I fled down the stairs, the clang of fire bells filled my ears.

Firefighters there are often rushing out before the fire bell sounds, attuned to listen for a faint click that happens a split-second before the emergency lights switch on.