fire apparatus
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of fire apparatus
First recorded in 1900–05
Example Sentences
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Marodi was a fire apparatus engineer in 2007 and promoted to captain in 2022.
From Los Angeles Times • Feb. 19, 2025
Because the incident was a line-of-duty death, the New Jersey Division of Fire Safety did an investigation that generated a 21 -page report captioned "career firefighter killed upon being run over by fire apparatus."
From Salon • Feb. 6, 2022
Kovatch grew KME into the country’s largest private manufacturer of fire apparatus.
From Washington Post • Feb. 3, 2022
The release says he was “returning a fire apparatus to service” when he was injured but offered no other details.
From Seattle Times • Jan. 3, 2018
Buckets and handpumps were useless, and long before the fire apparatus from Calverton could cover the ten miles of rutted, frozen roads the edifice had been reduced to a smoking ruin.
From In Jeopardy by Sutphen, Van Tassel
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