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  2. Multiple-alarm fire - Wikipedia

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    When identifying the unit/firefighter alarm designation, the initial dispatch is referred to as a "first alarm" and is typically the largest. Subsequent alarms are calls for additional units, usually because the fire has grown and additional resources are needed to combat it, or because the incident is persisting long enough that firefighters on scene need to be relieved.

  3. How bad is a five-alarm fire? What to know about system after ...

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    More than 90 firefighters ultimately responded, Charlotte Fire officials said at a press conference.

  4. Emergency service response codes - Wikipedia

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    This usually is a known and going fire or a rescue incident. Code 2: Unused within the Country Fire Authority. Code 3: Non-urgent event, such as a previously extinguished fire or community service cases (such as animal rescue or changing of smoke alarm batteries for the elderly).

  5. Devastated residents left destitute after a five-alarm fire ...

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    Devastated residents were left destitute after a five-alarm fire ripped through a Manhattan apartment building leaving more than 40 tenants displaced.. Residents and nearby business owners are now ...

  6. 'Five alarm fire': Supreme Court immunity ruling raises fears ...

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    Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson wrote in a dissenting opinion that the ruling constitutes a "five-alarm fire that threatens to consume democratic self-governance."

  7. Mutual aid (emergency services) - Wikipedia

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    Large municipalities typically have enough fire and emergency medical services resources to handle large local incidents. However, in the case of multiple alarm fires, mass casualty incidents (MCIs) or large-scale hazardous material incidents, that municipality may call in resources from surrounding towns to either respond directly to the incident scene or take up quarters in their fire and ...

  8. 'A Five-Alarm Fire': Experts Fear 2021 Might Be Even Worse ...

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    With many schools and daycares still remote or closed and key protections from the CARES act—such as paid leave—having expired in December, experts fear more moms could be pushed out of the ...

  9. Fire alarm system - Wikipedia

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    A fire alarm system is a building system designed to detect, alert occupants, and alert emergency forces of the presence of fire, smoke, ...