Possible Clues:

• Ladder company's base
• Place to see a pole
• Putting out of ashes perhaps, one having been used for nothing?
• Where a pole may be found
• Hook-and-ladder locale
• Hook-and-ladder site
• Dalmatian's spot, often
• Where skilled operators may be told to go to blazes
• Dalmatian's hangout, stereotypically
• Sack military base - Brigade HQ?