[Scan-DC] [OT] Four-Alarm Fire in Baltimore Last Night

[Mike Cox, K3GEG]

see http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=135400

It may help,

Mike
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From: "Andrew Clegg" <w4jecom at w4je.com>
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Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 8:55 PM
Subject: RE: [Scan-DC] [OT] Four-Alarm Fire in Baltimore Last Night


> Can someone help me understand the meaning of "alarm" in the context of an
> "n-alarm" fire? Does a "four-alarm fire" mean that there were four 
> separate
> dispatch calls made, each adding equipment to the fire-fighting effort? Or
> does four-alarm mean that four different stations responded to the fire? 
> Or
> does it mean something else?
>
> Tnx,
> Andy
>
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> http://www.abc2news.com/Default.aspx
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> Big link that will get broken, so I'll beat them to it.
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> http://www.abc2news.com/
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