Fire department and Local department

Fire department noun - The department of local government responsible for preventing and extinguishing fires.

Local department and fire department are semantically related. In some cases you can use "Local department" instead a noun phrase "Fire department".

Local department noun - A permanent department created to perform the work of a local government.

Fire department and local department are semantically related. Sometimes you can replace phrase "Fire department" with "Local department", this phrases are similar.