USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -1648 Governor Peter Stuyvesant of New Amsterdam (New York City) adopted building codes and established Fire Wardens to protect the settlement. This was the first fire organization in America.

Detailed explanation-2: -Petrus Stuyvesant is best known as New Netherland’s longest, most influential, and last Dutch governor, having served until the English overthrew the colony’s Dutch administration and renamed it New York in 1664. Stuyvesant helped make New Amsterdam more orderly and economically successful than it had ever been.

Detailed explanation-3: -Expansion of the colony A new plan of municipal government was arranged in the Netherlands, and the name “New Amsterdam” was officially declared on 2 February 1653. Stuyvesant made a speech for the occasion, saying that his authority would remain undiminished.

Detailed explanation-4: -Not only was this man a Founding Father of the United States, but he is also known to be the “Father of our Fire Service". You guessed it, this man is Benjamin Franklin himself. Ben Franklin founded the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1736.

Detailed explanation-5: -To protect the population it was necessary to fight fires positively, so a firefighting force emerged and has evolved throughout the centuries into the modern fire service. The first organized fire brigade was born during the rule of the Roman Empire.