fire company

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A company of men for managing an engine to extinguish fires.
2. n. A fire-insurance company.

Wiktionary

1. n. firefighting, US An organization whose purpose is to extinguish fires.
2. n. firefighting, US A single emergency response unit and its personnel within a fire department

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. a company of men managing an engine in extinguishing fires.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. a private or temporary organization of individuals equipped to fight fires