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In the 2nd Centuary, The Eqyptains invented a water jet for aiming at fires.
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7,000 paid fire brigade members also patrolled the streets to enforce corporal punishment if fire prevention codes are not met.
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First structure fire recorded in the US was in Jamestown.
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Boston selectmen ordered that "noe man shall build his chimney with wood, nor cover his house with thatch."
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Govener Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam (New York City) was the first in the New World to appoint fire inspectors with the authority to impose fines for fire code violations
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In 1679, Boston imported the first fire engine to reach America from London.
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In 1736, a young Benjamin Franklin urged readers of his newspaper to establish firefighting companies.
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In 1852 William F. Channing, a Doctor in Boston used telegraph technology developed in the early 1840's to create the first fire alarm box system.
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In 1832, the New York Mutual Hook and Ladder Company No. 1 volunteers purchased a horse to pull their engine.
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1910 the two functions were combined, one engine both propelling the truck and driving the pump.
