Marty Lancton

The History of Firefighters

Firefighters are some of the core members of our society. Fire has always been around, whether man-made or a force of nature. However, there weren’t always the organized firefighting coalitions that we have today. Large red firetrucks with blaring sirens would have been an otherworldly oddity in centuries past, but communities also had to derive methods to put out destructive fires. This begs the question: how did organized firefighting get its start?