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turntable ladder

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turntable ladder
n
(Engineering / Mechanical Engineering) Brit a power-operated extending ladder mounted on a fire engine US and Canadian name aerial ladder
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We saw two firemen going up an enormous turntable ladder up to the seventh floor, peering with powerful search lights into various rooms there, and we then saw the firemen pulling away parts of the front of the hotel near where the bomb had exploded, presumably to get to the casualties more easily.
Memories of bomb blast come to light; North East man was in Grand ... by The Journal (Newcastle, England)
They watched the turntable ladder which is used to tackle high-rise blazes and carry crew members skywards, and saw firefighters and paramedics carrying out a rescue in a mock-up car crash.
Firefigher display by Evening Chronicle (Newcastle, England)
Students were very pleased to have experience of aerial turntable ladder of 105 ft.
Rescue 1122 imparts training to FJWU students by Balochistan Times (Baluchistan Province, Pakistan)
 
 
 
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