a heavy road vehicle that carries firefighters and firefighting equipment to a fire
Examples of 'fire appliance' in a sentence
fire appliance
It took 200 firefighters using 39 fire appliances, three days to extinguish the fire.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
Three fire appliances, three specialist vehicles and 27 firefighters also attended the crash.
Times, Sunday Times (2015)
More than ten fire appliances were at the scene.
The Sun (2018)
It required the entire efforts of shore fire appliances and fire-fighting tugs to battle the blaze.
Times, Sunday Times (2012)
London fire appliances also carry night-vision cameras, a 13.5-metre-long ladder, axes, sledgehammers, a megaphone, oxygen masks and cutting equipment.