Sentence examples for firehouse started from inspiring English sources

"The guys in the firehouse started calling me 'Mr. Mayor,' and I thought, 'Aw, no.' " But now that he is the incumbent, read his lips: Mayor Darragh has an agenda.

Firefighter unions are trying to reverse a cost-cutting measure that would cut staffing levels at 60 New York City firehouses starting Tuesday.

"People from all over who had been afraid to come to the firehouse loft started filling the house," Mr. Skolnick said.

The collective, to which some 40 practitioners of improvised music — jazz in its broadest sense — belong, took shape in 2005, around the time Firehouse 12 was started.

With a new marketing war chest, Firehouse Subs and Zimmerman started an $8 million advertising campaign in September 2009.

Guys will have to bring in their own toilet paper," said Aaron Lee, president of Turn of River, who started in the firehouse at 16.

One day early on, Firefighter McNair found a news clipping she considered derogatory to female firefighters on the firehouse wall, and when she started using a knife to remove it, a colleague tried to grab the knife away.

"Another day at the firehouse while preparing a meal, somebody started a conversation about weightlifting," Mr. Todd said.

The firefighters in Ladder 4 called him Prancer, a nickname given him the night he thought he heard a bell and started jumping around the firehouse looking for it.

The history dates back to 1977, a year after the department first started installing computers in firehouses.

She asked them to put up a poster in the firehouse telling that a symphoney orchestra was being started in the Housing Authority and musicians were needed, particularly for a string section.