Practices intended to prevent fires and reduce the destruction they cause.

plural of fire pit

Alternative form of firestorm

(Hong Kong) Synonym of forest fire

(idiomatic, transitive) To motivate or encourage (someone) to start sooner or move faster.

(US) A prank performed while stopped in a car at a red light, and where each passenger, including the driver, shouts "Chinese fire drill", exits the vehicle, runs at least once around it, then re-enters, each taking a different seat.

Do not discharge a weapon. Used originally for weapons needing a spark or lighting of a fuse to ignite gunpowder; now sometimes used to mean any weapon launching a projectile.

To refrain from criticism.

An electrical discharge, or corona, seen around pointed objects, caused by ionization of the atmosphere during storms.

A horn on a fire alarm that sounds in case of fire, either automatically when the system detects fire or manually when the alarm is pulled, to alert the occupants of a building or complex of the hazard.