FIRE! FIRE! FIRE!
It's Fire Prevention week. I sure saw an interesting segment on the news tonight. In Summerside, PEI, there was a re-enactment of a firefighting effort of 100 years ago. The actors were in period attire. At that time there were neighborhood patrols to watch for fires. When one was spotted, volunteer brigades were summoned to fight the fire using horse and even men drawn apparatus. The pumps were even operated by hand with 8 or so men. The re-enactment was marvelous, with the old pumps actually brought to the scene by manpower alone and actually set up to pump water! It was a blast to see water being pumped to the roof of a house with one of those manual water pumps. They have much of this old equipment I'm talking about at the firefighters museum. There was even smoke billowing from the house ( artificial of course). A woman went around to neighboring homes pounding on the doors and yelling "FIRE! FIRE!And yes, to get as much water on the fire as possible, a bucket brigade was set up. This was a line of people with buckets of water handing each full bucket down the line with the person at the end pouring the buckets of water on the fire as best he could and as fast as he was handed them! They did not have the protective gear we have now and had to make do with what they had.
By the way, the re-enactment lasted an hour and the actors were "exhausted".
posted by Fireguy @ 7:16 PM
1 Comments:
I've seen that type of firefighting in Movies. Man, it must have been hard.
Thank Goodness for technology.
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