THE HISTORY OF FIRE BRIGADES.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume LXVIII, Issue LXVIII, 22 June 1912, Page 9

THE HISTORY OF FIRE BRIGADES.

Ihe fire brigade, that very nec«Bßar/ safe-gua^d of every civilised community, Oias its history Jike «yery othw mstitutiQn, aad, as a recent historian shows, it cam be traoed back from its present state of efficiency, with itsnost ot subsidiary appliances, its miW ot nose, its chemical motors, turntable escapes, soaling-ladders, water-tower attachments, and the like, to its rerj minute beginnings. Rome kad its w?» ™-traine?, *-^en, "matricult ru« Phny cali» them. In England the ChwfeF Bell heralded the introduction or .the fire.brigade, and the nicchtwatchmdi appointed by Edward I. were firemen ..in embryo, i The beUmen of three centuries later used to jangle bells in the .till, small hours and cFy Tafce care of your, fir© and candle, ' considering prevention better thin cure Later, George III: took the firefighters." Parisk- churches and workhouses began to get their own manual engines, which tore to the scene of the fire at a mile and half per nZ;- Je rthe P°Pul. ac« Joined in the pumping Intone. case on reoord, » widow, whose husband had been seitou and parish engineer, was appointed W nSI h scon trotting »boutin her pattens at fires, superintending operat,on S The first professional brfgade navr/i, town of- Tetb «7. »»d Glasgow next followed suit. Until seventy y| ara *s 1865 London itself had no Governfires nl fT ciP»l. Provision agS nres. Volunteer brigades ware Welv populate PUlrhe efi° f mm