Sentence examples for a second alarm was from inspiring English sources

A second alarm was sounded later.

Five minutes after the first firefighters arrived, a second alarm was sounded, they said.

A second alarm was called one minute after firefighters first arrived, an indication that the flames had burned with extraordinary intensity.

Thirteen minutes after the initial report of the fire, a second alarm was sounded, signaling a call for more firefighters and equipment.

Within 10 minutes of the first firefighters arriving, a second-alarm was called.

A third-alarm was triggered less than an hour later, about 4 20 a.m., Pickett said.

At 8 55 a.m., the first alarm was sounded, and three minutes later, a second alarm brought the number of responding firefighters to more than 100, they said.

It is urging firehouses and churches to ring their bells at 4 45 p.m. Friday, the minute the first alarm was sounded for the Triangle fire.

The first alarm was received at 3 08 p.m. Six-alarm fires are rare -- this was the first of 2004 -- but Chief Hayden noted that 16 alarms were sounded to call 500 firefighters to battle a blaze that heavily damaged the St . George Hotelin Brooklyn Heights in August 1995.

The first alarm was called in at 6 41 p.m., but more fire companies were called because the wind, Chief Duggan said, created "blowtorch conditions" that quickly spread the fire to the upper floors.

"When the first alarm was sounded we had the helicopter on-scene within one hour.