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fire bell

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Noun1.fire bell - a bell rung to give a fire alarm
bell - a hollow device made of metal that makes a ringing sound when struck


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It's a great old brick station house built in 1930 for $100,000, and was once the largest fire station west of the Mississippi - housing 28 firefighters, 12 fire apparatus, and six separate poles for the firemen to slide down when the fire bell sounded.
At the end of his life, Thomas Jefferson wrote about slavery and the Missouri Compromise: "This momentous question, like a fire bell in the night, awakened and filled me with terror.
Angel": When Seton Hall University student Dana Christmas went to sleep one winter evening and was awoken by an early morning fire bell, which other students in the dorm shrugged off as just another false alarm, Dana took it seriously.
 
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