fire departments
Municipal emergency services
Fire departments are municipal organizations responsible for firefighting, rescue operations, and emergency medical response.
Most fire departments employ both professional firefighters and volunteers.
The singular fire department refers to a specific local agency: The fire department responded within minutes.
In casual speech, people often say the fire department even when multiple agencies serve an area.
Crisis response number
- sirensEmergency vehicle noisemakers
- alarmUrgent warning signal
- dispatchSend with speed
- responseAnswer to stimulus
incident · hazmat · evacuation · crisis · urgency · mayday · catastrophe · disaster
Act of freeing
- search-and-rescueLocating and retrieving imperiled persons
- lifesavingPreserving human existence
- trappedUnable to escape
- survivorsThose still alive after
collapse · rappelling · recovery · victim · extraction · SCBA · ventilation · overhaul
911
Crisis response number
response · incident · hazmat · evacuation · crisis · urgency · mayday · catastrophe · disaster · call-outs
extrication
Act of freeing
- search-and-rescueLocating and retrieving imperiled persons
- lifesavingPreserving human existence
- trappedUnable to escape
survivors · collapse · rappelling · recovery · victim · extraction · SCBA · ventilation · overhaul · salvage
- public servicespolice, police station, police stations, police patrols, firefighters
- government spendinggovernment spending, federal budget, expenditures, allocations, military spending
- fire insurancesmoke damage, premiums, coverage limits, underwriting, policies
- state budgetsappropriations, allocations, general fund, operating budget, capital budget
- entitiesentity, being, object, thing, item
- Rural Americafarm, barns, heartland, countryside, Midwest
fire departmentspolice departments
Local law enforcement agencies
ambulance services · paramedics · coast guard · law enforcement agencies · law enforcement
fire departmentsarsonists
Those who criminally ignite property
firebugs · fire starters · pyromaniacs · demolition crews · incendiaries
fire, flame, department, fireman, firefighter, fireside, firemen, fire brigade, firehouse