fire engine
noun
: a usually mobile apparatus for directing an extinguishing agent upon fires
especially
: fire truck
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Crews — include a Cal Fire helicopter and six fire engines — had stopped forward progress around 10 a.m., according to Cal Fire.
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Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
State Route 87, also known as the Beeline Highway, connects the Phoenix area with Payson.
Seventeen fire engines and several interagency hotshot crews responded to the Adams Fire.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024
Video shot outside the building showed several police vehicles, crime scene tape, ambulances and fire engines.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
Other pieces of debris sliced into the fire engine hoses leading from the seawater pit.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
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Kate Talerico, The Mercury News, 15 June 2024
State Route 87, also known as the Beeline Highway, connects the Phoenix area with Payson.
Seventeen fire engines and several interagency hotshot crews responded to the Adams Fire.
—Daniel Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 3 June 2024
Video shot outside the building showed several police vehicles, crime scene tape, ambulances and fire engines.
—David Matthews, New York Daily News, 3 Apr. 2024
Other pieces of debris sliced into the fire engine hoses leading from the seawater pit.
—IEEE Spectrum, 31 Oct. 2011
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“Fire engine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20engine. Accessed 2 Jul. 2024.
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