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The Work Of Benjamin Franklin And His Contributions

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Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin born on January 17th, 1706 in Boston, Massachusetts Bay, British America and died on April 17, 1790 at the aged of 84 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America. This great man was one of the founding fathers of the United States of America. He was author, politician, freemason, postmaster, scientist, inventor, civic activist, statesman, and diplomat. A lesser-known fact is he was the grandfather of the American fire service.
Franklin is considered by many to the father of the American Fire Service because he was a volunteer fireman and on December 7th, 1736, Franklin created the Union Fire Company. A group of 30 men with leather buckets, strong bags, and baskets (used to transport items). The men of the Union Fire Company met every month to talk about fire prevention and fire fighting methods. In result many other fire companies were formed using Franklin idea of the fire service like The Heart in Hand, The Britannia and the Fellowship are just a …show more content…

He suggested many ways to prevent fires. Franklin used his newspaper the Pennsylvania Gazette to spread fire preventive measures. Franklin wrote that everyone should remove the wooden moldings from the sides of the fireplace, to clean the fireplace chimneys on a regular basis and because many fires began when bed warmers which was not kept closed as hot embers would fall out when it was being moved around the house to keep the bed warmers, Franklin recommend they be kept closed tight when filled with hot coals. Franklin even looked to fines chimney sweeps that did not properly clean a chimney, which might result in a fire due to the carelessness of the chimney sweep.
Benjamin Franklin the father of the American Fire Service is one of the many examples of a critical thinker. Not much has changed over 300 years in the fire service other than technology, firefighting methods, and

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