Eli5 what are second and third alarm fires

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I see in the news like second and third alarm fire alarms, I’m not from the USA, so I have no experience (that I’m aware of) of different alarm fires

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It’s just a measure of severity so the firefighters can bring an appropriate amount of equipment and firefighters. It goes up to 5 alarm which would be most severe.

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