Stories of the Fire Brigade
By Frank Mundell · Running time 03:35:37 · Children's Non-fiction
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The stories presented here have been collected from reports of actual incidents responded to by various fire brigades with examples from both Great Britain and the United States of America. The author gives some background on the earliest systematic procedures and laws introduced to preserve life and property from uncontrolled fire, which in Britain can be dated back to pre-Saxon times but even these basic procedures are pre-dated by systems and equipment developed in even earlier times by the Chinese, the Greeks and the Romans. The stories give the reader (& listener) a real appreciation of t
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