ladder company
Hook-and-ladder crew
A ladder company is a firefighting unit equipped with an aerial ladder truck, as distinguished from an engine company that operates pumper trucks.
Ladder companies specialize in rescue, ventilation, and accessing upper floors of burning buildings: The ladder company raised their aerial to the fifth floor.
Also called a truck company.
- fire departmentBlaze-fighting public service
- firetruckEmergency response vehicle
- extensionAdded part or duration
- aerialElevated, or signal-catcher
- rescueSave from harm
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- firefightingfire station, fire truck, fire engine, firefighter, firefighters
- fire stationsfirehouse, fire engines, fire hall, fire trucks, engine house
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