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Firefighting was not known until the first century CE in Rome under Emperor Augustus.

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How were the first departments affected at the close of the Civil War?

Soldiers were asked to be paid workers in the fire departments.

General Grant became head of the national fire department before he ran for president.

Many cities unified their fire departments because of the steam-powered fire engines, eliminating jobs and making people bitter.

In New York, volunteer departments were no longer needed with the consolidations into one Metropolitan Fire Department.

Why was the Great Fire of London in 1666 so devastating?

London followed the actions of Europe, yet they too refused to set up a fire department.

The King’s royal firefighters were not notified at the start of the fire.

London was unprepared and so it forced citizens to organize a firefighting system.

Londoners had never experienced any fires previous to that time.

Why was Marcus Licinius Crassus considered unethical by Romans in 43 CE?

In 64 C.E., Emperor Augustus borrowed Crassus’s basic technology and improved upon it by adding buckets, water pumps and instruments for pulling down walls.

Emperor Augustus did form groups of men to scour neighborhoods to watch for fires at night, so that the bucket brigades could put them out.

Crassus’s was an ethical wealthy businessman because he made it known that he intended to give all profits to charity.

Crassus’s actions were unethical because he asked for payment first and withheld his help in putting out the fire until he received payment.

Why was getting the water to the burning building so labor-intensive in colonial days? Check all that apply.

A water pump on a cart was useful, but it still required many men to move it.

Water pumps had not been invented.

Colonial firefighters had to run to the front stoop of people’s homes to find water.

Buckets had to be carried to the burning location.

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