Stuyvesant and his Municipal Council of Burgomasters and schepens framed an ordinance providing for 150 leathern fire buckets, and the formation of the "Rattle Watch" to protect the streets at night.

IN a paper received from the Smithsonian Institution, a brief history is given of fire-fighting in America from colonial days to the present time. It starts with the days of the ‘bucket brigades'.

These buckets usually have a release valve that opens up once the helicopter reaches the fire hotspot. As mentioned earlier, the National Interagency Fire Agency classifies helicopters involved in ...

Fighting a fire in Tatskweyak is a matter of finding ... even if it's working, firefighters use buckets to try to keep flames under control when the truck needs to be refilled.

Larry Sukay, CEO and founder of Western States Fire, said methods for fighting fires burning out of control haven't changed much in the last 80 years. "We throw these buckets of water or we throw ...

Volunteer firefighters in Tataskweyak Cree Nation have turned to buckets to fight fires due to the lack of running water in parts of the community. "We use water [in buckets] to put out the fire ...