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marcus licnius crassus creates the first roman firebrigade as a scheme to make money, taking advantage of the fact that rome had no fire department,
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during the great fire, the community was forced to come up with a new method of fighting fire, through tactical combat they were able to start trying to cut up the fire by destroying near by houses so it wouldnt travel any further.
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the union fire company is created, decended from bejamin franklin. this was the first established fire deoartment.
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thomas lote invented the first ever fire truck this seriously widened the centralisation of the fire deoartment.
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the first fire hose is made available for the use by the fire department making it much easier to tackle house fires
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steam powered automobiles are abandoned and motorises fire trucks are introduced, holding the original concept for fire trucks we see today
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the fire deoartment decide to modernise to suite the needs of service users, this includes using more televised warnings, safety awareness at chistmas time and more school visits
