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When the fire departments are putting out fires they have long poles
with a hook on the end to grab and remove boards. . . .
Does anyone know what these hooks or the whole poles are called?

Well one of the two classes of vehicle (and crew) used by the New
York Fire Department is "Hook and Ladder." Perhaps they call hooks "hooks."

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)