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A police radio dispatcher's desk from the Netherlands. Emergency service response codes are predefined systems used by emergency services to describe the priority and response assigned to calls for service.
The term firewall originally referred to a wall intended to confine a fire within a line of adjacent buildings. [4] Later uses refer to similar structures, such as the metal sheet separating the engine compartment of a vehicle or aircraft from the passenger compartment.
Firefighting jargon includes a diverse lexicon of both common and idiosyncratic terms. One problem that exists in trying to create a list such as this is that much of the terminology used by a particular department is specifically defined in their particular standing operating procedures, such that two departments may have completely different terms for the same thing.
A fire alarm pull station is an active fire protection device, usually wall-mounted, that, when activated, initiates an alarm on a fire alarm system. This is the most common design in North America.
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