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A nine-year-old Sydney boy escaped a terrifying house fire thanks to the lessons he learnt from his ex-fire brigade grandfather, smashing a window with a metal pole. Christian Daubney was inside his family’s Rodley Ave townhouse in Penrith after his mother, Chelsea Daubney, ducked out with his two-year-old sister to grab dinner supplies on the evening of June 10. A fire quickly broke out and tore through the two-storey home, during which the nine-year-old managed to smash a front window with a metal pole and call for help from a passer-by. The nine-year-old was treated for cuts in hospital. Picture: 9 News Later taken to hospital with a cut on his foot, Christian was “going really well”, Chelsea said in part thanks to the outpouring of support from Penrith’s “beautiful community”. The nine-year-old was also aware of what to do in such an emergency thanks to his grandfather’s expertise. “Christian’s grandfather worked in the fire brigade and always taught myself and my kids about (fire safety) when there is a fire in the house,” she said on Today. “He really showed he listened to my dad – he said he got down low, covered his mouth and smashed the window when he couldn’t get through the door.” It took 30 firefighters and eight trucks to put the blaze out. Picture: Facebook Ms Daubney had locked the front door after she left, “thinking he would be safe inside”, forgetting a candle was still lit. Though fire investigators are yet to formally determine the cause of the blaze, C...

The history of organized firefighting Ancient Rome [ ] Rome suffered a number of serious fires, most notably the fire on Early English [ ] In guet bourgeois ("burgess watch"), allowing the residents of Paris to establish their own night watches, separate from the king's night watches, to prevent and stop crimes and fires. After the 2) of the city, leaving tens of thousands homeless. Prior to this fire, London had no organized fire protection system. Afterwards, insurance companies formed private fire brigades to protect their clients’ property. These buildings were identified by There is an The key breakthrough in firefighting arrived in the 17th century with the first fire engines. Manual pumps, rediscovered in Europe after 1500 (allegedly used in The The British Museum has a print showing Lofting's fire engine at work in London, the engine being pumped by a team of men. In the print three fire plaques of early insurance companies are shown, no doubt indicating that Lofting collaborated with them in firefighting. A later version of what is believed to be one of his fire engines has been lovingly restored by a retired firefighter, and is on show in Marlow Buckinghamshire where John Lofting moved in 1700. Patents only lasted for fourteen years and so the field was open for his competitors after 1704. United States [ ] In 1631, The United States did not have government-run fire departments until around the time of the On 1 April 1853, Cincinnati, Ohio featured the first care...

WASHINGTON PARK — Three times a week, about a dozen students walk through the doors of the Chicago African American Firefighters Museum, passing images of heroes from the past as they chart their futures. The decommissioned Washington Park firehouse and museum, 5349 S. Wabash Ave., also is home base to the Chicago Fire Brigade, a nonprofit organization where Lt. Quention Curtis — known as “Lieutenant Q” to his students — trains young adults to become first responders, preparing them for emergency medical technician tests or firefighter exams. Since the program launched in 2018, 440 students have gotten jobs in the industry, said Curtis, a 34-year veteran of the Fire Department. Credit: Colin Boyle/Block Club Chicago Lieutenant Quention Curtis shows a video of himself and students at the Black Fire Brigade in Washington Park on Dec. 28, 2021. For Curtis, the mission is twofold: He wants to give young people a sense of purpose and add much-needed diversity to the Fire Department’s rank and file. That’s also an issue Fire Commissioner Annette Nance-Holt, the first Black woman in that role, But Curtis said getting buy-in from local leaders to ensure there is opportunity and upward mobility for people of color within the Fire Department remains an uphill battle. “I’m a former police officer, so I’ve seen my share of everything. I hear people talk about crime, but they don’t do anything,” Curtis said. “If you teach a kid to save a life, they’re going to be less likely to take on...

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