Editing Firefighting (section)

===Historic tactics and tools===
[[File:Πυροσβεστική αντλία Κτησιβίου και Ήρωνος, Μουσείο Αρχαίας Ελληνικής Τεχνολογίας Κώστα Κοτσανά.jpg|thumb|A reconstruction of the fire-pump of [[Ctesibius]]' and [[Hero of Alexandria|Heron]]'s in [[Museum of Ancient Greek Technology|Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology]], [[Athens]].]]
In the 3rd century B.C., an Alexandrian Greek named [[Ctesibius]] made a double [[force pump]] called a ''siphona''. As water rose in the chamber, it compressed the air inside, which forced the water to eject in a steady stream through a pipe and nozzle.<ref name="Board of Regents"/>

In the 16th century, [[syringe]]s were also used as firefighting tools, the larger ones being mounted on wheels.<ref name="Board of Regents"/> Another traditional firefighting method that survived was the bucket brigade, involving two lines of people formed between the water source and the fire. Typically, men in one of the lines would pass along the full buckets of water toward the fire while in the other line women and children would pass back the empty buckets to be refilled.<ref name="Board of Regents" />

In the 17th century the first "fire engines" were made, notably in Amsterdam.<ref name="Board of Regents" /> In 1721, the English inventor [[Richard Newsham]] made a popular fire engine that was essentially a rectangular box on wheels filled using a bucket brigade to provide a reservoir while hand-powered pumps supplied sufficient water pressure to douse fires at a distance.<ref name="Board of Regents" />