Mosaics, towers and domes apart, it boasts three ambulances and five fire-engines.

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Ambulance drivers transporting patients are exempted under the Road Traffic Regulations Act 1984 - as are police and fire engines - but transplant vehicles are not.

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Only emergency vehicles - buses, taxis, fire engines, ambulances, police cars, rubbish trucks - and those powered by gas or electricity remain exempt from the ban.

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The number of fire engines that respond to fires in high-rise buildings has now been increased and there have been changes to equipment and tactics.

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Jordan Pfeiler, a 21-year-old worker in a factory that makes fire engines for New York and other big cities, said people in the neighborhood had been hearing unusual sounds for weeks.

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He has harnessed himself to fire engines, Mack trucks, and a Lockheed C-130 transport plane and dragged them hundreds of yards.

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During the night the authorities sent in fire engines, backed by a couple of armoured personnel-carriers laden with riot police, to put out the biggest blazes.

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Boeing said in a statement that the fire was traced to a battery unit that helps power electrical systems when the engines are idle -- typically while a plane is being serviced or cleaned.

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Boeing said the fire was traced to a battery unit that helps to power electrical systems when the engines are idle -- typically while a plane is being serviced or cleaned.

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Coast Guard said the fire started with a leak in a fuel-oil return line running from one of the ship's engines.

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