17 points | by zdw an hour ago
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Invented? Ancient Rome would like a word: the Vigiles Urbani date back to 6 AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting_in_ancient_Rome
And private firefighters were active even earlier, with Crassus particularly notorious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
Didn’t know that; in modern italian vigili urbani is the traffic police.
Yeah the title is clickbaity, a more accurate title would be that they improved and/or scaled it.
Amsterdam did not invent the fire department. This is silly.
Invented? Ancient Rome would like a word: the Vigiles Urbani date back to 6 AD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting_in_ancient_Rome
And private firefighters were active even earlier, with Crassus particularly notorious:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcus_Licinius_Crassus
Didn’t know that; in modern italian vigili urbani is the traffic police.
Yeah the title is clickbaity, a more accurate title would be that they improved and/or scaled it.
Amsterdam did not invent the fire department. This is silly.