fire appliance
Britishnoun
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The royal couple were given a tour of the 50-acre site and were taken to and from different areas in a fire appliance.
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A majority of the other incidents reported have only required a single fire appliance, but control rooms have been inundated with calls, often repeats to the same incident.
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Twelve people worked the fire appliance, pumping the handle 24 times a minute.
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He added that every fire appliance in Greater Manchester would be given specialist equipment over the next 12 months "to support a timely and effective multi-agency response to a marauding terrorist attack or a mass casualty rescue event".
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A fire appliance from Foyers and another from Inverness were first sent to the scene.
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