Sentence examples for firehouse pole from inspiring English sources

One brawny guy with a mustache swooshes down the firehouse pole.

One recent afternoon, for example, with alarm bells ringing, a probie announced that he really did not like sliding down the firehouse pole; he was more a stairs man.

The sequence of events, which was first reported in Newsday, started about 3 p.m. Wednesday when the driver for Engine Company 303 hurt his back sliding down the firehouse pole as he began an earlier emergency run, officials said.

When Jose Graneila bought his downtown Brooklyn firehouse in 1981, the poles had been "stolen by drug addicts," he said, and he did not want to "replace something with a reproduction".

A tall fireman showed the group how in the interest of speed firemen slide down a pole in the firehouse from the upper floors.

But after fire-fighters put it out, and let Elmo visit the firehouse and slide down the pole, he is reassured about how people respond to emergencies.

She never saw him buying shiners at the bait shop, or clinging to a pole at the firehouse, or sunk down in a pew at the community church.

AUSTIN, Tex. - The image of big brawny firefighters devouring platters of four-alarm chili, sizzling steaks and double cheeseburgers is as much a part of firehouse lore as brass fire poles and heroic Dalmatians.

84 West Third Street (between Sullivan and Thompson Streets) Manhattan This 1906 8,420-square-foot 8,420-square-foot 8,420-square-foot firehouse still has its original brass poles, circular stairs and herringbone brick floor, as well as a two-story detached building once used as a stable.

When all three are booted out of Columbia University, they go into private practice, advertising on television and setting up shop in an abandoned Manhattan firehouse, since they like sliding down the pole.

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