How To Use Fire engine In A Sentence
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Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived.
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The convoy also included ambulances and a fire engine and was flanked by police on motorcycles.
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She reached the coast road and a fire engine charged into view, spreading a bow wave.
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There were two ambulances and four fire engines and two helicopters here straight away.
The Sun
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Groups of men overturned and set fire to vehicles, torched a small factory and tried to stop fire engines from reaching the blaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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She's become accustomed to the sound of fire engines and the sight of soldiers in fatigues searching vehicles.
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You may even see your property taxes increase as towns have to pay more to keep their police cars, fire engines, and garbage trucks on the road.
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She was sitting at the foot of the sofa watching TV, obviously knackered, whilst Dom played with his fire engine.
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There were two ambulances and four fire engines and two helicopters here straight away.
The Sun
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The queen of the skies taxied onto the apron at Ringway through a welcoming arch of water canons blasted from a pair of airport fire engines.
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A fire engine and two support vehicles were scrambled and trains to the airport were temporarily suspended.
The Sun
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There were police cars, fire engines, helicopters - oh yeah, and a naked woman.
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He saw that one fire engine got through okay but the second a slight problem in two places.
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The fire engines were just pulling up[Sentence dictionary], sirens blaring.
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The word is also often applied to a fire engine, equipped with a number of burly men wielding choppers.
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The first fire engines on the scene had ladders long enough to reach only the tenth floor.
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A dense plume of smoke rose as ambulances and fire engines raced through the narrow streets.
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It was decided that a hose from the fire engine could damage evidence, and instead water from a bucket was used to gently dowse the fire.
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The first fire engines on the scene had ladders long enough to reach only the tenth floor.
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Fire engines, ambulances, police and emergency services officers in full body biological protection suits with breathing apparatus are at the Embassy decontaminating the site.
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Delicate instruments, calculating machines, workshop machinery, portable tools, the pedrail, motors ashore and afloat, fire engines, automatic machines, sculpturing machines -- these are a few of the chapters which crowd this splendid volume.
To Mars via The Moon An Astronomical Story
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Hitting a top speed of only 35 mph - half that of today's fire engines - the vehicles have no radio, but are likely to have a police escort.
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A photograph in the late Jess Chandler's History of Marlborough shows the horses harnessed to the fire engine in front of the town hall.
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The convoy also included ambulances and a fire engine and was flanked by police on motorcycles.
Times, Sunday Times
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It took twelve fire engines to tackle the blaze .
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Two fire engines, from Marlborough and Pewsey, were called after smoke was seen issuing from the building.
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I just stepped out of my office for lunch only to find evacuated officials, fire engines, and clouds of evil-smelling smoke emanating from the top of the building.
Garret Fitzgerald - the truth
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He drew back the corner of the curtains and saw the fire engines, blue lights flashing and men in yellow helmets unreeling hoses through the darkness as smoke poured into the sky by the building site.
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A fire engine and two support vehicles were scrambled and trains to the airport were temporarily suspended.
The Sun
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The fire brigade was out in force with an emergency tender, a high-rise platform engine and two regular fire engines.
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There were two ambulances and four fire engines and two helicopters here straight away.
The Sun
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Knock Airport has finally secured funding to update its old fire engines.
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Two ambulances, a fast response car and three fire engines attended the scene and six police officers helped cordon off the area.
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Live music, sumo wrestling and fire engines rides will be just some of the activities on offer at the fundraising event on Monday to support the Reuben and Friends Appeal.
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Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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In 1872, despite a case of epizootic influenza that basically sidelined all the fire department's horses, the city didn't want to rent horses to pull fire engines, deciding that it was better to send an officer to see if it merited dragging a hose to the fire, leaving the engine in the house.
This Day in History, 1904: General Slocum Tragedy
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When I woke the next morning and went downstairs, I found a decorated Christmas tree in the front room, and underneath it, a pair of lace up boots, a red fire engine, and a sack of candy.
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And only hours after yesterday's tragedy in Lincolnshire firefighters had to strap a car to a fire engine to stop it falling on to the East Coast mainline.
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Traffic became grid-locked and sirens screamed as fire engines and ambulances tried to negotiate a way through the chaos.
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Today's citizen may peruse the items on a poll tax bill with a jaundiced eye, but we tend to take for granted that a nice shiny fire engine will make its efficiently speedy way towards us should we ever need it to.
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The first fire engines on the scene had ladders long enough to reach only the tenth floor.
Times, Sunday Times
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The government has authorised the use of 840 army fire engines to provide emergency cover during the strikes.
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From whirligigs to stereoscopes, from toy soldiers to toy kitchens, from horse-drawn fire engines to subway cars, the New York Historical Society houses many toys illustrative of their day and the children who played with them.
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Expect troops to be sent across picket lines to commandeer the red fire engines.
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By mid-day ambulances, fire engines and police vehicles from all over the county were converging on the city.
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A dense plume of smoke rose as ambulances and fire engines raced through the narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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They're a familiar sound - police, ambulance, fire engine; electronic donkeys braying.
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Three months after the eruption, the ash and aerosol had spread to higher latitudes causing such vivid red sunset afterglows that fire engines were called out in several places, like New York, to quench the apparent conflagration.
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There were police cars, ambulances and fire engines, all sounding sirens in an endless procession south.
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The cars were soaped all over before the uniformed crews used their fire engine hoses to blast the dirt off.
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The Essex Air Ambulance, three fire engines and a rescue tender rushed to the scene at about 9.50 am yesterday.
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The Cessna light plane eventually landed safely on a concrete, floodlit area at Roman Barracks as fire engines and paramedics stood by in case it burst into flames.
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Three fire engines rushed to the school only to discover it was a false alarm.
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He liked to chase fire engines, lead parades and play marbles under the stands between innings of games.
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Their fire engine was a wooden wagon with a manual pump.
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Three fire engines attended the blaze, described by firemen as ‘very serious’, just before midday.
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The airport is required by law to have a fire engine.
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Groups of men overturned and set fire to vehicles, torched a small factory and tried to stop fire engines from reaching the blaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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While no-one was injured, the lorry's cab and the car burst into flames and three fire engines were called to the scene.
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With the air reeking of smoke, the firefighters got to work in dousing the flames as the flashing blue light of the fire engine lit the neighbourhood.
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I replied negatively as he took off his purple hued sunglasses, fire engine-red leather jacket and canary yellow cashmere scarf.
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There were at least three fire engines -- why _three?
Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine
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Staff members provided a fun-filled morning, patiently supervising our toddlers as they sprayed water from a hosepipe, pretended to drive the fire engine and activated the siren.
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Chimney sweep Steve Howard is so mad about vintage vehicles he has filled his driveway with fire engines - and even wants to buy his own plane.
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The usual emergencies such as fires or road traffic accidents will not elicit a response from these vehicles, even with the crews and fire engines on station.
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The airport is required by law to have a fire engine.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three fire engines rushed to the school only to discover it was a false alarm.
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The fire brigade was out in force with an emergency tender, a high-rise platform engine and two regular fire engines.
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So they may call leopards and lions "kitty cats," or a toy fire engine a "car.
The Developing Child (7th edn.)
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There got to be a saying that whenever there was a disastrous fire in the poor districts of a city the fire chief's buggy reached the scene first, next the "Aglaia" flour wagon, and then the fire engines.
Sixes and Sevens
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It took twelve fire engines to tackle the blaze .
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Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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In some cases there have been reports of scaffolding poles being thrown through windscreens of fire engines, crews being attacked by concrete blocks, being shot at and equipment being tampered with.
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Crowds soaked up the glorious weather as colourful floats, marionettes, a brass band, classic cars and a fire engine wound their way through the town.
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My blood begins to boil and my hair and eyes take on the angry shade of fire engine red.
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The Edinburgh based Institution of Fire Engineers specialises in developing fire engines and safety equipment.
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Groups of men overturned and set fire to vehicles, torched a small factory and tried to stop fire engines from reaching the blaze.
Times, Sunday Times
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He added that firemen often found it difficult to reach the sites, which were densely populated with little access to the areas because the small lanes were too narrow for the fire engines to enter.
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Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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Three fire engines and a rescue tender attended the crash which involved a car and two lorries.
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The air was thick with the sound of crickets -- a noise foreign to a metropolitan girl like me more accustomed to the sudden blare of fire engines and the bicycle bells of impatient delivery boys.
Charu Suri: Another Side of Lone Star State
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They say it is only a matter of time before a firefighter is seriously hurt by a missile thrown at crews or a fire engine.
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There was a narrow track from the road down to the farm and in the dark with only carbide lamps on the fire engine they went off the track and got stuck.
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On top of shortages in basic equipment like ladders, fireproof clothing and pumps, at least 22 new fire engines and other vehicles are required now and 35 auxiliary fire stations need upgrading.
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Two fire engines and a high-reach appliance were sent out to an industrial unit at the junction of County Road and Station Road.
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Eight fire engines raced to the scene and set about tackling the blaze which firefighters said covered almost 30 acres of the field.
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The six-strong crew inside them is surrounded by timber and plywood and not the hardened steel cabs in modern fire engines.
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Young children have also been putting their lives at risk by hanging on the back of fire engines while they are on the move.
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The sound of sirens filled the air as fire engines and ambulances dashed to the scene.
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Even prisoners going in and out of Strangeways have been banging on the van windows as they've passed by and we've had police cars and fire engines hooting us too.
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A dense plume of smoke rose as ambulances and fire engines raced through the narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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Essex Fire and Rescue Service had 55 firefighters, six fire engines, an aerial appliance and a control unit on the scene at the height of the fire.
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"You're a big boy. I'm going to make you a very big boy's present," she told him. "Big boys drive fire engines."
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Three fire engines rushed to the school only to discover it was a false alarm.
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A dense plume of smoke rose as ambulances and fire engines raced through the narrow streets.
Times, Sunday Times
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The firemen reeled out the hoses from their fire engine.
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The convoy also included ambulances and a fire engine and was flanked by police on motorcycles.
Times, Sunday Times
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The old fire engines have meant that the staff are subjected to constant breakdowns and are continually looking for spare parts.
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Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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They include stockpiling fire engines in secure areas and recruiting local volunteer crews.
The Sun
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They include stockpiling fire engines in secure areas and recruiting local volunteer crews.
The Sun
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I see full integration of the new computer-aided dispatch system and i see Fire Engine Companies 8 and 9 back up and running.
David Murray: How to Know the Real State of the Union: By Reading the State-of-the-Village Speeches
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Winchester firefighters were also caught up in the bad weather when they had to walk part of the way to a house in the city struck by lightning during the snowstorm after their fire engine got stuck in heavy traffic.
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So that was that - except that in the rush to sort out the mystery, she clean forgot to ask what emergency the fire engine was going to.
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There were two ambulances and four fire engines and two helicopters here straight away.
The Sun
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Local residents rushed to rescue dogs from the flames before fire engines arrived.
Times, Sunday Times
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We ordered what we call strike teams, which are just lots and lots of fire engines early on.
CNN Transcript Mar 12, 2007
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The keys to another new appliance, a new fire engine carrying new, lighter-weight rescue equipment, were also handed over by the mayor yesterday.
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Fire engines, police cars and ambulances crowded the area cordoned off to the public.
