History of firefighting

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The history of organized firefighting began in ancient Rome while under the rule of the first Roman Emperor Augustus.^[1] Prior to that, Ctesibius, a Greek citizen of Alexandria, developed the first fire pump in the third century BC, which was later improved upon in a design by Hero of Alexandria in the first century BC.^[2]