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Mini-Stories : Volume 14

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Firefighting in the 18th Century

The bucket brigade was basically a long human chain. Overtime, they improved the system of fire fighting with the goal of putting fires out as fast as possible. By the 18 hundreds, there were engines being pulled by horses. Each group of fire fighters, which were called fire companies, were in furious competition to fight the same fire.

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