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fire company
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Noun1.fire companyfire company - a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires
organization, organisation - a group of people who work together

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WOODLAND HILLS -- More than two dozen fire companies responded to an electrical fire on the 17th floor of a high-rise building at the Warner Center office complex Monday evening, but no one was hurt, authorities said.
Around this time, New York fire companies also were required for the first time to show the approximate equivalent of an unearned premium reserve as a liability, namely "the amount required to safely reinsure all outstanding risks.
That firemen have embodied traits associated with the most pronounced versions of manliness was a novel component of Amy Greenberg's thesis in Cause for Alarm: The Volunteer Fire Department in the Nineteenth-Century City (Princeton, 1997), which definitively makes the case that antebellum volunteer fire companies were far more intent on shoring up manhood than feeding class conflict.
 
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