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    on nearly all fire engines include ladders, hydraulic rescue tools (often referred to as the jaws of life), floodlights, fire hose, fire extinguishers...
    34 KB (3,688 words) - 01:07, 19 November 2024
  • Ladder 49 is a 2004 American disaster thriller film directed by Jay Russell and written by Lewis Colick. The film follows Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison...
    12 KB (1,442 words) - 17:12, 24 November 2024
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    0066 (Hook & Ladder Company 8 ("Ghostbusters" firehouse)) Firehouse, Hook & Ladder Company 8 is a New York City Fire Department (FDNY) fire station, located...
    8 KB (707 words) - 15:04, 10 November 2024
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    A fuel ladder or ladder fuel is a firefighting term for live or dead vegetation that allows a fire to climb up from the landscape or forest floor into...
    3 KB (348 words) - 16:22, 28 July 2023
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    A ladder is a vertical or inclined set of rungs or steps commonly used for climbing or descending. There are two types: rigid ladders that are self-supporting...
    21 KB (2,523 words) - 16:27, 15 November 2024
  • the collapsed fire escape. Other photos of the series show Bryant and Jones waiting for a turntable ladder and the moment of the fire escape's collapse...
    7 KB (765 words) - 23:00, 30 October 2024
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    A hook ladder, also known as a pompier ladder (from the French pompier meaning firefighter) is a type of ladder that can be attached to a window sill or...
    2 KB (247 words) - 04:21, 4 January 2024
  • Thumbnail for New York City Fire Department Ladder Company 3
    York City Fire Department Ladder Company 3, also known as Ladder 3, is a fire company and one of two ladder companies in the New York City Fire Department's...
    5 KB (470 words) - 19:51, 24 November 2024
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    improperly swept. The first four fire wardens were Martin Krieger, Thomas Hall, Adrian Wyser, and George Woolsey. Hooks, ladders and buckets were financed through...
    103 KB (11,707 words) - 19:03, 24 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for List of New York fire departments
    list of fire departments in New York. Rescue 1 (Borough Wide/Hell's Kitchen) Engine 1/Ladder 24/Division 3 (Midtown Manhattan) Engine 3/Ladder 12/High...
    122 KB (19,405 words) - 16:38, 13 November 2024
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    larger fire engine to negotiate. The most common front line appliance deployed to all emergency calls goes by a variety of names, including rescue ladder, pump...
    15 KB (1,885 words) - 13:40, 27 October 2024
  • Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Company Fire Station No. 1, in New Castle County, Delaware Aetna Hose, Hook and Ladder Company, Fire Station No. 2, in New...
    2 KB (291 words) - 01:50, 25 December 2022
  • Jacob's Ladder is a 1990 American psychological horror film directed by Adrian Lyne, produced by Alan Marshall and written by Bruce Joel Rubin. The film...
    44 KB (4,866 words) - 16:41, 24 November 2024
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    June 1895, Ulm) was a German fire brigade pioneer and entrepreneur. He is credited with inventing the mobile fire ladder. Magirus was the son of a grocer...
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    large U.S. cities, fire stations are often named for the primary fire companies and apparatus housed there, such as "Ladder 49". Other fire stations are named...
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  • extended. Attic ladders are usually made of wood, metal, aluminum, or fiberglass. Also, fire departments carry attic ladders on fire apparatus for use...
    2 KB (277 words) - 23:16, 10 November 2020
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    were out of reach of fire ladders. The hotel, which had been advertised as "absolutely fireproof," reopened after 5 years with fire alarms and an automated...
    223 KB (21,569 words) - 06:30, 23 November 2024
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    quintuple combination pumper or quint is a fire-fighting apparatus that serves the dual purpose of an engine and a ladder truck. “Quintuple” refers to the five...
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  • Thumbnail for Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
    department's ladders were long enough to reach only as high as the 7th floor. The fallen bodies and falling victims also made it difficult for the fire department...
    67 KB (7,294 words) - 22:40, 21 November 2024
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    responders. Some tried using the bedsheets to descend the hotel's exterior. Fire ladders were only able to reach the ninth-floor exterior. One man escaped the...
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