multialarm
(US, firefighting, of a fire) Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.
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(US, firefighting, of a fire) Requiring the work of several firetrucks to contain or extinguish.
Fires which have heretofore been one‐alarm skirmishes are now multialarm small wars.
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