Firefighting technology has evolved a lot over the years.
From bucket brigades to electric firetrucks, 麻豆传媒映画itself has seen a lot of those changes, and has been at the forefront often, after the .
At one point one of the pieces of gear firefighters used were two-wheeled hand-drawn hose reels. Essentially, they were like a horse-drawn carriages, except smaller, so people could pull it. Those people being the firefighters off to put out a blaze.
In B.C. the 麻豆传媒映画team was among the best in the late 1880s and early 1890s, and regularly were named the champion hose team of B.C. for their cart-pulling prowess. This was at a time that sports and competitions were growing in popularity in the area as more people were moving to the area.
Eventually, though, new technology replaced the human-pulled carts and the races ended.
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