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Instead of cooperating to extinguish the blaze, the rival fire companies head straight for each other in an all-out brawl as the building burns. According to the curator of a new display case exhibit on American firefighting in the 19th century, there is a certain element of truth behind the scene.

Lets just say that somewhere in that scene is something in the spirit of what was beginning to be wrong with the state of volunteer firefighting at that point. But there were no major insurance companies operating in early America. The first homeowners insurance company wasn't started until by Benjamin Franklin and didn't become common The Fires Built By The Arson Guild - The Unsettlers - Oil And Blood (CD the 's.

By that time, Americans had developed their own tradition of fighting fires as a grassroots collective. Leather fire buckets, like the one displayed in the exhibit, were a ubiquitous part of urban life in They were painted with names and addresses. When the fire is over, they all get taken to a church or other central place and people would pick them up. Newspapers of the era advertised the services of artists who would personalize and decorate fire buckets for a fee.

The buckets became a way of participating in the protection of a community while also showing off social status. Throwing water on a fire one bucket at a time wasn't a very effective way of saving one particular house, but it could buy the occupants enough time to salvage some belongings and prevent the fire from spreading to other buildings and potentially destroying an entire neighborhood.

As The Fires Built By The Arson Guild - The Unsettlers - Oil And Blood (CD equipment evolved from buckets to engines, the need for special training and tools emerged.

Enter the creation of volunteer fire companies. Because Album) today, the majority of firefighters are still volunteers, but nobody would call them 'amateurs. They were as trained as the technology of the time allowed. American firefighting began to evolve into a system of fraternal organizations, similar to the Masons or the Oddfellows. One of their early tools was a bed key, designed to quickly disassemble a bed in order to remove it from a burning building.

Before the introductions of gas lines, before houses were full of artificial accelerants, before buildings tended to be more than two stories tall, it was relatively safe to try to salvage property from a burning building. But it's likely that the fire will burn slowly enough that at least some things can be salvaged so at least you aren't losing your movable wealth.

The bed was most likely your most valuable single item. In the Album) aroundsome early fire engines with manually operated pumps were horse-drawn, but large groups of strong men moved them around, just as depicted in the film.

Hose companies were formed when municipal water sources were built with primitive hydrants. A riveted leather hose, like the sample on display in the exhibit, was invented to take advantage of pressurized water sources.

As buildings grew taller, stronger steam-powered pumps were needed. Those required fewer, but better-trained firefighters to operate. Shrinking the sizes of fire companies was somewhat of a social problem. Volunteer fire companies existed to do more than just fight fires. It's such an appropriate symbol of hope in the face of fire. And it's also a reminder of ways in which people could participate even when they weren't allowed to.

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