How to Use fire truck in a Sentence

fire truck

noun
  • The wall of flames shot out the building and burned seats inside a fire truck across the street.
    Stefanie Dazio and Frank Baker, Houston Chronicle, 17 May 2020
  • About 75 cars and one fire truck came out for the residents.
    Joshua Gunter, cleveland, 13 Apr. 2020
  • Once inside, Porter started a fire truck and drove it through the station’s closed bay doors.
    Tess Williams, Anchorage Daily News, 29 June 2020
  • At one point, the fast-moving fire jumped a highway and came dangerously close to a fire truck.
    NBC News, 17 Aug. 2020
  • First responders in ambulances and fire trucks rushed toward the scene.
    Victoria Beaule, ABC News, 1 Aug. 2024
  • One fire truck crew arrived at the building to put out the fire, according to the county’s emergency response map.
    oregonlive, 9 Aug. 2020
  • Erma Johnson said the video shows paramedics and a fire truck responding to the incident, presumably after shots were fired.
    P. Kim Bui, azcentral, 4 June 2020
  • In the past, El Lago hosted a parade on its city streets, a parade that consisted of a fire truck and children on bicycles.
    Robert Avery, Houston Chronicle, 24 June 2020
  • The arriving officer was told that the vehicle could now be found in a birthday parade, which also included a fire truck and a Fiat.
    John Benson, cleveland, 3 June 2020
  • In Houston, an additional fire truck is typically dispatched to any freeway crash to help block traffic for firefighters and paramedics.
    Jay R. Jordan, Houston Chronicle, 22 June 2020
  • The two firefighters who were injured were standing about a hundred feet south of the fire truck helping occupants in a vehicle when the Altima drove past the fire truck and struck them.
    Jade Jackson, The Indianapolis Star, 7 Sep. 2024
  • Minutes later another cruiser drives by, followed by an EMT truck, a fire truck with lights flashing and more police cruisers speeding by.
    Brad Schrade, ajc, 9 May 2020
  • He, the rest of his crew, and a fire truck watched from across the street.
    David Reamer, Anchorage Daily News, 2 Nov. 2020
  • At least 20 fire trucks were called in over the course of a few hours.
    Marisa Sullivan, Peoplemag, 16 May 2023
  • As the plane comes to a halt, fire trucks douse the plane with water.
    Saman Shafiq, USA TODAY, 8 May 2024
  • The event starts at 2 p.m. and ends at 7 p.m. when Santa leaves in a fire truck.
    Johanna Seltz, BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2022
  • Did any of you see the CincyFests fire truck in the parade?
    Paul Daugherty, The Enquirer, 13 Apr. 2022
  • Sixty-mile-per-hour gusts peeled back the door on a fire truck.
    Jennifer Oldham, ProPublica, 27 Dec. 2022
  • No one was in the fire truck at the time of the collision, state police said.
    Mike Mavredakis, Hartford Courant, 4 Jan. 2023
  • When the siloviki returned with the fire truck, dressed in all black, the whole group stormed the building.
    New York Times, 30 Mar. 2022
  • The fire chief said that the lieutenant had never gotten off the fire truck.
    Jessica Jaglois, BostonGlobe.com, 7 Feb. 2023
  • The Highlander had five occupants and the fire truck had one.
    Chicago Tribune, 1 July 2023
  • There are four, sometimes five, people in the fire truck at a time.
    Isabella Zarate, AZCentral.com, 30 July 2023
  • The protesters set fire to one of the buses and turned back a fire truck that rushed to douse it.
    Krishan Francis, ajc, 2 Apr. 2022
  • The pair are scheduled to arrive aboard a Park Ridge fire truck.
    Jennifer Johnson, chicagotribune.com, 20 Nov. 2021
  • Images taken at the crash scene showed the front of a sedan stuck underneath the back of the fire truck.
    Greg Norman, Fox News, 22 Aug. 2022
  • The highlight of the event will be Santa’s arrival on a fire truck.
    Carol Kovach, cleveland, 28 Nov. 2021
  • There are no fire trucks, there’s no way to put anything out.
    Sean Illing, Vox, 23 June 2024
  • Manny heard sirens in the distance but did not see any fire trucks.
    Alicia Victoria Lozano, NBC News, 6 Feb. 2024
  • By the time a fire truck arrived, the car was fully engulfed in flames, Rohrbach said.
    Meredith Deliso, ABC News, 27 July 2023

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