1. Fire departments were battling fires in homes when another fire broke out in office buildings in a neighboring street.
2. The men and women who worked for fire departments that evening also helped people trapped in cars after that disastrous accident.
3. Rescuers were saving victims of the flood, so they needed the help of firefighters very much.
4. That person prevented the fire by enforcing fire safety laws, but his colleagues knew little about fire hazards.
5. When a fire broke out, all the people in the community rushed to the scene.
6. In colonial America each fire battalion was commanded by a captain, 7 fire companies made up a battalion.
7. In the early 1800s departments didn`t have staff that worked in such areas as fire prevention, training and arson investigations.
