fire department

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  • Hyphenation: fire‧de‧part‧ment

Noun

fire department (plural fire departments)

  1. (firefighting, US) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires. May provide other emergency services as well, such as first aid and search and rescue.

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