The concept of a fire hose is certainly not a new one. Since several decades now, the fire hose has replaced the old ways of fire fighting with buckets of sand or water. As we know, the result of that method was that the fire burned faster than those fighting the fire could carry the buckets of water to douse the flames. There is no question about it that fire hoses and the firefighters who use it to extinguish flames have saved millions of lives worldwide.

Here are some facts about firefighting that you may find interesting:

• Did you know that when it is fully extended, a fire hose is thirty six meters long with an outside diameter of nineteen millimeters?

• A fire hose is designed to give an output of 0.33 liters of water per second.

• Fire hoses are used to provide a controlled supply of water to a fire risk area in a reasonably easy way.

• There are two types of firemen: those who are paid with a salary, and those who do firefighting as voluntary work toward helping others.

• In theory, voluntary firefighters are unpaid, but this is not always the case.

• A firefighter must be on call twenty four hours a day and seven days a week. After all, fire doesn’t wait for the holidays to be over!

• The voluntary firefighters in Germany are called the Freiwillige Feuerwehr.

• Venezuela has three types of firefighters: salaried firefighters, voluntary firefighters

and university firefighters. They attend to fire emergencies on the university campus.

• Each seaport and airport has its own firefighting services.

• Singapore has conscripted firefighters in addition to their career firefighters and volunteer firefighters.

• In order of priority, the goals of firefighting are to taking care of their personal safety, protecting lives, protecting the property and to saving the environment.

• When fighting a fire, a firefighter must try to deprive it of fuel, oxygen, heat and chemical reactors that have the capability to inflame the fire further.

• Firefighters in Victoria, Australia are called the CFA which stands for the Country Fire Authority.

• Firefighters in the United States have various helmet colors to denote their rank or position.

• It is believed that organized firefighting dates back to ancient Egypt.

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