Comments by "51WCDodge" (@51WCDodge) on "A History of Firefighting" video.

  1. The London Fire Brigade, also known as London Fire Rescue Service has many links with the Royal Navy and Port of London. Sailors were considered as prime recruits, being stong fit and able to operate equipment at height from experience of rigged sailing ships. The use of Watches, to describe the crews and coulours to distingush them, also slang such as Nutty, to describe sweets and choclate. The Metroploitian Police force first use of Firearms is recorded at Keston Mark , on the South East Edge of London, where a Constable fired over the roof of a local pub, to try and wake the occupants as there was a fire. A pub survived on the site up to about twenty years ago, Brave men and women all, who put themsselves at risk for others.
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