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n. (fire company English)
Usage examples of "fire companies".
There were presidents of fire companies and cricket clubs, Adams observed.
The plumed hearse, the dirge-breathing brass bands, the closed marts of business, the flags drooping at half mast, the long, plodding procession of uniformed secret societies, military battalions and fire companies, draped engines, carriages of officials, and citizens in vehicles and on foot, attracted multitudes of spectators to the sidewalks, roofs and windows.
No fire sirens sounded, not since the rebel snipers slaughtered the first response of the amateur fire companies.
Block watches were organized for early detection of fires, cutting down on the use of water by the fire companies.
I don't know who said it, but somebody did, that the fire companies were to San Francisco what the Cossacks were to Russia.
Threescore of Turlocks congregated in terror to watch the burning, and untold Cavenys, and when the visiting fire companies were assembled, powerless to fight the blaze, grim Amos Turlock moved among them, issuing guns and one simple command: If the niggers try to burn the rest of the town, kill em.