Shaping of the Fire Service.

Shaping the Fire Service
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Fire is one of the disasters that is either caused by human or occur naturally. When such catastrophic and disastrous events occur, people usually pause and focus on what should be done to prevent the reoccurrence. The focused is strategized based on the damages that have been caused by the hazardous event. Historically, many nations have improved their fire service only after the devastated damage of property and massive loss of life had occurred. Fire is a widespread phenomenon that with first recorded in Egypt. Egypt was the first nation to improvise the fire protection efforts. This paper focuses on some of the historical events that resulted in changes to fire service (Smith, 1978).
Historical events in fire service.
Changes in fire service get attributed to the effort that first seen in Rome around 1764. In ancient Egypt, hand operated pump was employed to extinguish fires. A group of slaves were the people who comprised the fire brigade department. In AD 6 Augustus of Egypt built Vigils or group of slaves to combat fire. They employed bucket brigade, pumps, poles, hooks, and ballistae so as to bring down the building before the flame. These group of slaves patrolled in the streets of Rome but where did not benefit as the department was under the bourgeoisie.
Another historical event that brought change in fire service gets drawn from Chicago after a great catastrophic fire conflagration of 1871…