DCHP-1 Online
fire-reels 
n. pl. a fire engine; fire truck.
- Formerly applied to a hand-drawn vehicle equipped with a reel of hose, the term persists in modern urban usage in the Toronto area, to some extent in Montreal and to some extent elsewhere.
- 1898 (1958) The hubÂ-and-hub race was a dash of one hundred and fifty yards with the fire reels drawn by twelve men.
- 1957 A century of grape-growing in the Niagara peninsula inspired a parade of old-time cars, fire reels and costumes in the Grape Festival at St. Catharines.
- 1958 Three things will bring me hustling to my window: fire reels; the screech and crunch of a motor collision; and voices raised in angry altercation.