Somebody Get the Buckets. The Firetruck Has a Flat Tire

Firetrucks may have started as water pumps on wheels designed to accompany bucket brigades. They moved through horse-drawn fire pumps and self-propelled, scary steam powered engines that were soon followed by the Knox automobile fire engine that added ladders and human-sized buckets attached to a bending arm. However, all the equipment through the decades that was designed to more efficiently save lives, none could match the hard work and bravery of over one

million firefighters who serve in...