fire engine
noun
: a usually mobile apparatus for directing an extinguishing agent upon fires
especially
: fire truck
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By May 2025, Brett, now 16, was finally able to return home — this time with a fire engine escort.
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Sam Gillette, People.com, 10 June 2025
Chief Fire Officer Nick Searle from Mersey Fire and Rescue Service said that three fire engines were on the scene within four minutes of the collision and arrived to four people stuck under a vehicle.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 27 May 2025
Moalem also drew suspicion because on April 8 he was seen — off duty — at Station 29 in North San Jose, standing between two fire engines near where a narcotics box was kept, according to the probably cause affidavit.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
Seidl said that the LAFD union made salary increases one of its top priorities in contract negotiations but that Bass also secured $51 million for 10 fire engines, five trucks, 20 ambulances and other equipment.
—Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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Sam Gillette, People.com, 10 June 2025
Chief Fire Officer Nick Searle from Mersey Fire and Rescue Service said that three fire engines were on the scene within four minutes of the collision and arrived to four people stuck under a vehicle.
—Callum Sutherland, Time, 27 May 2025
Moalem also drew suspicion because on April 8 he was seen — off duty — at Station 29 in North San Jose, standing between two fire engines near where a narcotics box was kept, according to the probably cause affidavit.
—Robert Salonga, Mercury News, 19 May 2025
Seidl said that the LAFD union made salary increases one of its top priorities in contract negotiations but that Bass also secured $51 million for 10 fire engines, five trucks, 20 ambulances and other equipment.
—Alene Tchekmedyian, Los Angeles Times, 30 Apr. 2025
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“Fire engine.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/fire%20engine. Accessed 30 Jun. 2025.
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