Editing Firebreak (section)

==History==
Due to a lack of a standardized firefighting force at the time, the [[Great Fire of London]] in 1666 instead saw the [[Tower of London]] garrison using gunpowder and fire hooks in a widespread, ad-hoc firebreaking campaign across Central London. Historians believe this to have been one of the major contributing factors to the eventual defeat of the inferno.

The world's most expensive firebreak was created when part of [[Van Ness Avenue (San Francisco)|Van Ness Avenue]] in [[San Francisco]] was dynamited to stop the spread of fire resulting from the [[1906 San Francisco earthquake]].<ref name="usarmy">{{cite web|url=http://www.sfmuseum.org/1906/coleman.html|title=U.S. Army Dynamite Report - 1906 Earthquake|last=Coleman|first=Le Vert|date=1906-05-02|website=www.sfmuseum.org|access-date=2018-11-10}}</ref> Firefighting after an earthquake can be especially challenging, because an earthquake can cause [[water main]]s to rupture, resulting in a complete loss of water pressure.

[[File:2013-05-10 12 18 27 Freshly dug fire break along the Mount Misery Trail in Brendan T. Byrne State Forest.jpg|thumb|right|Firebreak in the Brendan T. Byrne State Forest in New Jersey's Pine Barrens ecoregion]]