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FROM MTV. COM: "Ninja Assassin" starts off with one of the coolest and most gruesomely entertaining movie scenes of the year: a claustrophobic attack from some masked killers who slice, dice and decapitate their way through some unlucky gangsters, spraying blood around the room like they're firefighters trying to extinguish a four-alarmer.

Here’s What You NEED To Know About ‘Ninja Assassin’ » MTV Movies Blog 2009

Footnote: The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer.

Sunday Sweets: When Gamers Marry 2010

So Seixon, shall you call the fire brigade or shall I – I think your pants are at least giving us a two-alarmer right now.

Think Progress » ThinkFast AM: July 10, 2006 2006

It started earlier this morning, three-alarmer with more than 100 L.A. area firefighters on the scene.

CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2008 2008

But today's three alarmer at Universal Studios was no special effect.

CNN Transcript Jun 1, 2008 2008

"Until the fire is over," I replied, "the viewer won't know whether it's a one-alarmer or the fire that burned down Chicago."

Reese Schonfeld: Live Coverage of a Dead Story 2008

Glenn in Rhode Island: "The folks in Washington are like a fire department, shows up at a three-alarmer, expresses outrage, offers sympathy, speaks words of encouragement, asks for a contribution, sticks you with the bill, and then leaves to offer the same services to a fellow American down the street whose cat needs rescuing."

CNN Transcript Oct 9, 2007 2007

A storage facility, a three-alarmer, in Ft. Lauderdale.

CNN Transcript Aug 26, 2005 2005

Albert the Devil was another alarmer - a deaf-mute beggar with a black beetle's body, short legs, and a mouth like a puppet's.

Cider With Rosie Lee, Laurie 1959

Il ne faut pas t'en alarmer cependant; le voyage et l'exposition reclamaient une reaction, et elle arrive naturellement au premier moment ou j'ai la possibilite du repos.

Philip Gilbert Hamerton Hamerton, Philip G 1896