bucket brigade

noun
1.
a line of persons formed to extinguish a fire by passing on buckets of water quickly from a distant source.
2.
any group of persons who cooperate to help cope with an emergency.
Origin
1910-15
Examples from the web for bucket brigade
  • The second part of the museum program includes a hands-on bucket brigade, weather permitting.
  • The fire extinguishers were much more effective than the bucket brigade.
  • The engine was filled with water by a bucket brigade.
  • Recreate a bucket brigade, and use the view to connect the past with the present.
  • Students enjoy an hour-long history program at the museum led by park staff, including a bucket brigade.
  • Ready and waiting for action the members of the bucket brigade.
  • Being without fire hose of any kind, a bucket brigade would be formed and the fire put out in that manner, if and when possible.
  • In the high-solids digester the bucket brigade is in a state of disorganization.
  • Accordingly, a volunteer bucket brigade was organized.
  • They desperately formed a bucket brigade while others ran to another fire station to get working equipment.