What is the definition of a seven-alarm fire?

Here's a site that has the definition of "alarm" and a bit of the history of the term: http://www.slate.com/id/2141081/

And here's a poem by Ogden Nash, just for the fun of a pun on "three alarmer":

THE LAMA

The one-l lama, he's a priest.
The two-l llama, he's a beast.
And I will bet a silk pajama
There isn't any three-l lllama.*

* The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh.

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