Learn Turkish: İtfaiye yangın yerine çabuk gelebildi. - The fire brigade was able to arrive at the fire scene quickly.

It is made of the verb root gel (come), the ability suffix -ebil (able to), and the past tense suffix -di. Together, they mean 'was able to come' or 'managed to arrive'.

Why is it yangın yerine instead of just yangın yere?

Yangın yeri (fire scene) is a noun compound. The word yer (place) needs the possessive suffix -i to link it to yangın (fire). Then, to add the dative suffix -e (to), we must use the buffer letter -n- between the suffixes, giving us yerine.

Why does the sentence use yangın instead of ateş for 'fire'?

In Turkish, ateş is the general word for the element of fire, a flame, or even a medical fever. Yangın is specifically used for a destructive fire or disaster, like a house fire or a forest fire.

The English translation says 'arrive at', so why do we use the 'to' suffix (-e) on yerine?

In English we 'arrive at' a location, but Turkish focuses on the motion toward the destination. Verbs of movement like gelmek (to come) take the dative case direction suffix (-a or -e), so literally this says the fire brigade came 'to' the fire scene.