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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
fire station
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Ezra glanced through the dark to the fire station.
▪ I went into the fire station.
▪ The fire station was over the road.
▪ The train passed a fire station, a brewery, and over the wide murky river.
▪ We got some literature from this guy and he said right next to the fire station but I never saw it.
Wiktionary
fire station

n. The building where firefighters and fire trucks / fire engines are housed when not answering an alarm.

WordNet
fire station

n. a station housing fire apparatus and firemen [syn: firehouse]

Wikipedia
Fire station

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A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, or firemen's hall) is a structure or other area set aside for storage of firefighting apparatus such as fire engines and related vehicles, personal protective equipment, fire hoses and other specialized equipment. It may also have dormitory living facilities and work areas for the use of fire fighters. Living areas are sometimes arranged above the garage bays where personnel without specific station duties during the night shift are allowed to sleep unless a dispatch is called. In that situation, firefighters may have special means to allow entry to the ground floor quickly when a call for help is received, such as sliding down a brass pole called a fireman's pole. This arrangement also allows for a raised area to hang hoses to dry to prevent damage. In a single story station, a tower-like structure is sometimes used for hose hanging.

An occupied station will usually have a station alarm system for receiving and annunciating an alarm, and indications of where and what caused the alarm. However, sometimes the only "alarm" is a telephone that is rung in case of emergency. In a volunteer fire department where volunteers do not staff the station, the firefighters may be summoned to the fire station by siren, radio or pagers, making a station alarm system superfluous.

In a more structured operation, full-time or on-call volunteer or career firefighters staff the station some or all of the time. There may be office space for the officers, a library of reference and other materials, and a "trophy wall" or case where the firefighters display memorabilia.

Activities in a fire station include regular inspection and cleaning of the apparatus and equipment, and continuing education in the fire service. Weekly or bi-weekly routine typically includes various drills in which firefighters practice their skills. Some fire companies also host public activities at the fire station during annual "fire prevention week" or similar, and the facility may also be used for fund-raising by the "firemen's association", " fire buffs", or "fire auxiliary".

The approaches to a fire station are often posted with warning signs, and there may be a traffic signal to stop or warn traffic when apparatus are leaving or returning to the station.

In larger cities fire stations are often named for the primary fire companies and apparatus housed there, such as "Ladder 49", or the district which they serve. Rural fire stations are usually named for the county, town or village, but may also be named for the independent fire district serving a collective geographic area.

Fire Station (disambiguation)

Fire Station with variations including numbers, may refer to:

in the United States

(by Number, then by state and city)

  • Fire Station No. 1 (Los Angeles, California), List of Los Angeles Historic-Cultural Monuments on the East and Northeast Sides
  • Fire Station No. 1 (Denver, Colorado), listed on the NRHP in Colorado
  • Fire Station No. 1 (Muncie, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana
  • Fire Station No. 1 (Roanoke, Virginia), listed on the NRHP in Virginia
  • Fire Station No. 1 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 2 (Miami, Florida), listed on the NRHP in Florida
  • Fire Station No. 2 (Waterloo, Iowa), listed on the NRHP in Iowa
  • Fire Station No. 2-Topeka, Topeka, Kansas, listed on the NRHP in Kansas
  • Fire Station No. 2 (Charlotte, North Carolina), listed on the NRHP in North Carolina
  • Fire Station No. 2 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 3 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 3 (Arlington, Virginia), listed on NRHP in Virginia
  • Fire Station No. 4 (Miami, Florida), listed on the NRHP in Florida
  • Fire Station No. 4 (Des Moines, Iowa), listed on NRHP in Iowa
  • Fire Station No. 4 (New Bedford, Massachusetts), listed on NRHP in Massachusetts
  • Fire Station No. 4 (Elmira, New York), listed on NRHP in New York
  • Fire Station Number 4 (Asheville, North Carolina), listed on NRHP in North Carolina
  • Fire Station No. 4 (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
  • Fire Station No. 4 (Madison, Wisconsin), listed on NRHP in Wisconsin
  • Fire Station No. 5 (Mobile, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 5 (Knoxville, Tennessee), listed on the NRHP in Tennessee
  • Fire Station No. 5 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 6 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 6 (Sacramento, California), listed on the NRHP in California
  • Fire Station No. 6, Atlanta, Georgia, included in the Martin Luther King, Jr., National Historic Site
  • Fire Station No. 7 (Brookline, Massachusetts), listed on the NRHP in Massachusetts
  • Fire Station No. 9 (Terre Haute, Indiana), listed on the NRHP in Indiana
  • Fire Station No. 9 (Kansas City, Kansas), listed on the NRHP in Kansas
  • Fire Station No. 10 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 10 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 11 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 11 (Atlanta, Georgia), listed on the NRHP in Georgia
  • Fire Station No. 12 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 14 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 14 (Los Angeles, California), historic all-black segregated fire station listed on the NRHP in Los Angeles
  • Fire Station No. 15 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 15 (Tacoma, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 16 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 18 (Seattle, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 19 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 19 (Minneapolis, Minnesota), listed on the NRHP in Minnesota
  • Fire Station No. 22 (Birmingham, Alabama), listed on the NRHP in Alabama
  • Fire Station No. 23 (Los Angeles, California), listed on the NRHP in California
  • Fire Station No. 23 (Seattle, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 25 (Seattle, Washington), listed on the NRHP in Washington
  • Fire Station No. 30, Engine Company No. 30, historic all-black segregated fire station and engine company listed on the NRHP in Los Angeles

Usage examples of "fire station".

They've preserved everything: the little eighteenth-century village church, the fire station and the village green with the fine chestnut trees.

At least two evenings a week he assisted the ambulance crew at the local fire station.

When it was too dark to continue, Mulligan radioed to them to call it off for the evening, and they were picked up and driven back to the fire station.

Anielewicz still lived in what had been the Lodz ghetto, not far from the fire station that had housed the ghetto's only motorized vehicle, a fire engine.

By means of a telephone rigged from the shack to the fire station below, the wail of warning sirens can be instantly turned on to alert the unsuspecting citizens of an enemy attack.