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    A fire engine or fire truck (also spelled firetruck) is a vehicle, usually a specially-designed or modified truck, that functions as a firefighting apparatus...
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    The FIRE (for "Fully Integrated Robotised Engine") is a series of automobile engines from Fiat Powertrain Technologies, built in FCA's Termoli, Betim and...
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  • A fire engine is a road vehicle designed for firefighting. Fire engine may also refer to: The Fire Engines, a Scottish post-punk group Fully Integrated...
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  • Fire engine red, also known as fire truck red in North America, is an informal name for an bright red commonly used on emergency vehicles in many countries...
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    A wildland fire engine or brush truck is a fire engine specifically designed to assist in fighting wildfires by transporting firefighters to the scene...
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    The Fire Engines were a post-punk band from Edinburgh, Scotland. The Fire Engines were an influence on many bands that followed, including Franz Ferdinand...
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    fire engine is a fire engine that is powered by an electric motor—essentially, an electric vehicle designed and used for firefighting. Electric fire engines...
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    at the Edinburgh Fringe. The title of his 2001 show, "Go You Big Red Fire Engine", was coined during a 1999 performance in Melbourne. Hills asked an audience...
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    atmospheric engine was invented by Thomas Newcomen in 1712, and is often referred to as the Newcomen fire engine (see below) or simply as a Newcomen engine. The...
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  • Finley the Fire Engine is an American-Britsh animated children's television series produced by Balley Beg Animation Studios in Douglas, Isle of Man. The...
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  • Los Angeles County Fire Museum. Set at the fictional Fire Station 51 of the Los Angeles County Fire Department, where one fire engine and the paramedic...
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    A fire station (also called a fire house, fire hall, firemen's hall, or engine house) is a structure or other area for storing firefighting apparatuses...
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    FirePower series (with displacements from 241 cu in (3.9 L) to 392 cu in (6.4 L)) from 1951 to 1958; a famed 426 cu in (7.0 L) race and street engine...
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    fire engine in its original form was merely a water pump, with the engine being transported to the fire by horses. In modern usage, the term engine typically...
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    The firing order of an internal combustion engine is the sequence of ignition for the cylinders. In a spark ignition (e.g. gasoline/petrol) engine, the...
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    A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and...
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    location of the attached water main). This user can attach this hose to a fire engine, which can use a powerful pump to boost the water pressure and possibly...
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    A steam engine is a heat engine that performs mechanical work using steam as its working fluid. The steam engine uses the force produced by steam pressure...
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    a print showing Lofting's fire engine at work in London, the engine being pumped by a team of men. In the print three fire plaques of early insurance...
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    his friends Edward, Henry, Gordon, James, Percy, Toby and others who are engines of The Fat Controller. In the United States, it was first broadcast along...
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  • former Fire Engine House No. 1, Memphis, Tennessee Fire Hall No. 1 (Nashville, Tennessee), NRHP-listed, also known as the "George W. Swint Sr. Engine Company...
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    avoid detection. A New York Times article suggested that the fire had been started by the engines running the sewing machines. A series of articles in Collier's...
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    the London Fire Engine Establishment was formed under the leadership of James Braidwood, who had founded the first professional, municipal fire brigade in...
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    the flywheel end. The firing order is 1-6-5-4-3-2. The engine was produced at the Flint North plant in Flint, Michigan, with engine blocks and cylinder...
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    for Los Angeles County organized Engine Company No. 1. It was a volunteer firefighting force with an Amoskeag fire engine and a hose jumper (cart). The equipment...
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  • Engine 51 is known for its time in the 1970s TV show Emergency!. Engine 51 is actually two very different fire engines. Both Engines 51 sit in the Los...
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    the standard fire department responses to fires in high-rise buildings. The signal 10-60 is a separate response to major disasters. Engine companies, ladder...
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    rapidly spreading fire. At virtually the same time, sparks spread the fire to other houses on the north side of Strandgate. Another fire engine had arrived...
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    Manual Fire Engine, designed and built by Shand Mason Company of London from 1869 to 1869. It is also known as Shand Mason 7 inch Manual Fire Engine (1869)...
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    (ATDC) are usually counter-productive (producing wasted spark, back-fire, engine knock, etc.) unless there is need for a supplemental or continuing spark...
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