fire brigade (plural fire brigades)
- (firefighting, US) A group of people within a corporation or industrial site, organized for the purpose of putting out fires, usually in addition to their normal job.
- (firefighting, UK, Ireland) An organization, often part of a local government, whose purpose is preventing and putting out fires.
- see also fire service
- (military, US) A trained unit that can be rapidly deployed to deal with any difficult situation.
1976, The Encyclopedia Americana, volume 28, page 112:General Westmoreland used some incoming troops as a fire brigade to squelch major threats and keep the Communists off balance.
group within a corporation or industrial site
organization for preventing and putting out fires
- Albanian: skuadër zjarrfikëse f
- Arabic: إِطْفَائِيَّة f (ʔiṭfāʔiyya), فِرْقَة مَطَافِئ m (firqat maṭāfiʔ)
- Armenian: հրշեջ պահպանություն (hršeǰ pahpanutʻyun)
- Assyrian Neo-Aramaic: ܣܝܼܥܬܵܐ ܕܡܲܟ̰ܡܲܥܬܵܐ (sīʿta māčmāʿta)
- Azerbaijani: yanğınsöndürmə komandası, yanğınsöndürmə briqadası
- Belarusian: пажа́рная ахо́ва f (pažárnaja axóva)
- Bengali: দমকল বাহিনী (domkol bahini)
- Bulgarian: противопожа́рна слу́жба f (protivopožárna slúžba)
- Burmese: မီးသတ်ဌာန (mi:sathtana.)
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 消防隊／消防队 (siu1 fong4 deoi6-2)
- Hokkien: 消防隊／消防队 (zh-min-nan) (siau-hông-tūi)
- Mandarin: 消防隊／消防队 (zh) (xiāofángduì)
- Czech: hasičský sbor m, požární sbor m
- Danish: brandvæsen n
- Dutch: brandweer (nl) m
- Estonian: tuletõrje, tuletõrjujad pl
- Finnish: palokunta (fi)
- French: sapeurs-pompiers (fr) m pl
- Georgian: სახანძრო დაცვა (saxanʒro dacva)
- German: Feuerwehr (de) f
- Greek: πυροσβεστικό σώμα n (pyrosvestikó sóma), πυροσβεστική (el) f (pyrosvestikí), πυροσβεστική υπηρεσία f (pyrosvestikí ypiresía)
- Hebrew: מכבי אש m pl (mekhabei esh)
- Hindi: दमकल दस्ता m (damkal dastā), दमकल (hi) f (damkal), फ़ायर ब्रिगेड (fāyar brigeḍ)
- Hungarian: tűzoltóság (hu)
- Icelandic: slökkvilið (is) n
- Irish: briogáid dóiteáin f
- Italian: vigili del fuoco (it) m pl
- Japanese: 消防隊 (しょうぼうたい, shōbōtai)
- Kazakh: өрт сөндіретін команда (ört söndıretın komanda)
- Khmer: កងពន្លត់អគ្គីភ័យ (kɑɑng pɔnlŭət ʼakkiiphɨy)
- Korean: 소방대(消防隊) (ko) (sobangdae)
- Kyrgyz: өрт өчүрүүчү команда (ört öcürüücü komanda)
- Ladin: destudafuech
- Latvian: ugunsdzēsēji m pl, gunsdzēsēju komanda f
- Lithuanian: ugniagesių komanda f, gaisrininkų komanda f
- Macedonian: противпо́жарна слу́жба f (protivpóžarna slúžba), пожа́рна f (požárna) (colloquial)
- Malay: pasukan (ms) bomba (ms)
- Maori: hunga tinei ahi, rōpū tinei ahi
- Marathi: अग्निशामक दल n (agniśāmak dal)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: гал команд (gal komand)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: brannvesen n
- Nynorsk: brannstell n
- Persian:
- Iranian Persian: سازْمانِ آتَشنِشانی (sâzmân-e âtaš-nešâni)
- Plautdietsch: Fiawäa f
- Polish: straż pożarna (pl) f
- Portuguese: corpo de bombeiros m, brigada de incêndio/incêndios f
- Romanian: departament de pompieri n
- Russian: пожа́рная кома́нда (ru) f (požárnaja kománda), пожа́рные (ru) m pl (požárnyje), пожа́рная охра́на f (požárnaja oxrána)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: ватрогасци m pl, ватрогасна служба f
- Roman: vatrogasci (sh) m pl, vatrogasna služba f
- Slovak: hasičský zbor m, požiarny zbor m, hasičská jednotka f
- Slovene: gasilci (sl) m pl, javna gasilska služba f
- Spanish: cuerpo de bomberos m
- Swedish: brandkår (sv) c, räddningskår (sv) c, brandförsvar n
- Tajik: дастаи сӯхторнишонӣ (dasta-yi süxtornišoni)
- Thai: กองดับเพลิง (gɔɔng-dàp-pləəng)
- Tibetan: མེ་གསོད་རུ་ཁག (me gsod ru khag)
- Turkish: itfaiye (tr)
- Turkmen: ýangyn söndürijisi
- Ukrainian: поже́жна охоро́на f (požéžna oxoróna)
- Urdu: فائِر بِرِیگیڈ (fāir birīgeḍ)
- Uyghur: ئوت ئۆچۈرگۈچىلەر ئەترىتى (ot öchürgüchiler etriti), ئوت ئۆچۈرۈش ئەترىتى (ot öchürüsh etriti)
- Uzbek: oʻt oʻchirish komandasi, oʻt oʻchiruvchilar komandasi
- Vietnamese: đội cứu hỏa, trạm cứu hoả
- Walloon: pompîs m pl, foyerwer (wa) m (borrowed from German, Malmedy region, old)
- Welsh: brigâd dân f
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