plural of fire company

(US, firefighting) Fire station.

(countable) fire department / (firefighting) Service in a fire department or other firefighting organization, whether as a chosen career, or as a result of volunteering or a form of prison labor.

plural of fire house

A watchtower to search for fires in a forest. / In a high building, a stairway protected by several inches of concrete and entered through a kind of "air lock" that prevents the smoke to enter inside it.

(military, idiomatic) To fire a weapon with the intent of causing damage or harm to an opponent (as opposed to a warning shot or a practice shot).

Alternative form of firefighting

plural of fire beetle

A brilliantly luminous click beetle, Pyrophorus noctilucus, one of the elaters.

(archaic) Fresh from the forge; brand-new.