How to Use fire brigade in a Sentence

fire brigade

noun
  • The rescue dogs found no one left in the building, the fire brigade said.
    — Wyatte Grantham-Philips, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2022
  • In 'part 2' of the video, the fire brigade makes a cameo after an alarm goes off.
    — Daisy Schofield, refinery29.com, 9 Feb. 2021
  • Her family is safe, and the fire brigade is helping out in the streets.
    — Carmela Chirinos, Fortune, 25 Feb. 2022
  • The brakes heated up in the process and the airport fire brigade was called in to help cool them down.
    — Deanese Williams-Harris, Chicago Tribune, 9 Sep. 2023
  • Gassama also has been offered a job with the Paris fire brigade.
    — Brandon Griggs and Kyle Almond, CNN, 29 May 2018
  • The fire brigade does not charge tuition and is funded through donations.
    — William Lee, chicagotribune.com, 17 Apr. 2022
  • Part of the airports’ fire brigades will also refrain from working.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 10 Apr. 2018
  • Berlin’s fire brigade tweeted that at least 60 of its responders were at the scene.
    — Vanessa Guinan-Bank, Washington Post, 8 June 2022
  • Luck, weather, and Australia’s fire brigade saved the business.
    — Matthew Abbott, Environment, 18 Dec. 2020
  • More than 280 fire brigades and rescue teams are on site, trying to find survivors.
    — Jennifer Williams, Vox, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Neighbors noticed the smoke and summoned the fire brigade, which rushed her to a hospital.
    — New York Times, 28 Apr. 2021
  • His remains were recovered after the fire brigade arrived at the scene.
    — David Faris, Newsweek, 10 July 2024
  • She was later retrieved and treated for smoke inhalation, per the fire brigade.
    — Brenton Blanchet, People.com, 21 Dec. 2024
  • That led to the creation of volunteer fire brigades to clean up debris and run donation drives.
    — Sam Delgado, Vox, 7 Dec. 2018
  • Newsweek reached out to Italy’s national fire brigade for comment via email on Monday.
    — Joe Edwards, MSNBC Newsweek, 13 Oct. 2025
  • The police, fire brigade, coast guard and volunteers have spent days searching land and sea for the doctor, who did not take his phone with him.
    — Chris Liakos, CNN, 9 June 2024
  • Chris Swallow, fire brigade watch manager, said to the Telegraph.
    — Alexandra Deabler, Fox News, 14 Aug. 2018
  • Carlson clearly got confused between the arsonist and the fire brigade.
    — Calev Myers, New York Daily News, 9 Mar. 2026
  • The water tank, which the resident fire brigade would have used to extinguish the flames, had been secretly drained.
    — Bridget Alex, Smithsonian Magazine, 24 Feb. 2022
  • His private fire brigade would stand outside burning buildings and offer to buy them at a price that dwindled as the flames increased.
    — Adam Morganstern, Robb Report, 17 Dec. 2023
  • Police and the fire brigade rushed to the scene after being alerted by a member of the public who was walking on the shore of the canal.
    — Eve Brennan, CNN, 3 Mar. 2024
  • To be clear, this is a man who once filled a London venue with so much dry-ice during a gig that a passing fire brigade thought the place was ablaze.
    — Matt Wilkinson, Billboard, 6 Dec. 2019
  • Meanwhile, in Oxfordshire, the county council was putting the fire brigade on standby to serve school meals.
    — The Economist, 18 Jan. 2018
  • The Munich fire brigade said one of the victims sustained serious injuries.
    — Harold Maass, The Week, 2 Dec. 2021
  • The pilot, who survived, could be seen ejecting with his parachute opening moments before the jet struck the ground, the fire brigade said.
    — Barbie Latza Nadeau, CNN, 16 Sep. 2023
  • At least 81 people have been confirmed dead, according to fire brigade, while there is no formal count of those missing.
    — Nektaria Stamouli, WSJ, 25 July 2018
  • The fire was extinguished 30 minutes later by dam workers and the Hoover fire brigade, the bureau said.
    — Claire Thornton, USA TODAY, 19 July 2022
  • Firefighters deployed a Type 3 wildland fire engine from the airport’s fire brigade.
    — Daniel Hunt, Sacbee.com, 13 Aug. 2025
  • Police called in the local fire brigade, according to CNN Brasil.
    — John Sinnott, CNN, 25 Feb. 2021
  • The hospital staff tried in vain to use two fire extinguishers that were placed in the ward to douse the fire, before the fire brigade arrived and controlled it.
    — Tabassum Barnagarwala, Quartz, 13 Apr. 2022

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