The only way to fight a fire was for men to form a bucket brigade.
Usually, volunteers would form bucket brigades to transport water as well.
The blaze was contained and put out through the efforts of a bucket brigade.
It feels as if we're trying to keep a boat from sinking with a bucket brigade.
A bucket brigade had been started, the men moving in slow motion, their clothes smoking.
A dinner party at which everyone's a waiter is simply a bucket brigade.
A bucket brigade would probably be enough for the moment.
The green flames in particular seemed to frighten them; they made no move to form a bucket brigade to try to put out the fire.
Residents decided that more effective methods of fire protection than bucket brigades were needed.
Joe and the girls, meanwhile, prepared to form a bucket brigade from the pump.
