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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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That station has two turntable ladders that allow crews to reach high buildings while the Belgard Road station, which serves Tallaght, Lucan, Clondalkin and Walkinstown, has none.
WE CAN'T REACH FIRES; Crews have to borrow their ladders by The Mirror (London, England)
MEANTIME all was quiet on the political front at the weekend when Cllr Bradley took a well-earned rest from the bearpit to return to his more sedate life as a firefighter - saving lives, neutralising dangerous chemicals, swaying and hosing a-top turntable ladders - on the night shift at Toxteth Fire Station.
MR B ROCKLEBANK: Just damping down by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
One person was rescued by fire crews on turntable ladders at the building in Kings Road, Brighton, but others are missing.
Squatters missing in blaze house by Coventry Evening Telegraph (England)
 
 
 
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