Wigbert B 🎻🏛🎭🎤🗞🎥📚<p>"...As to our Conduct in the Affair of Extinguishing Fires, tho’ we do not want Hands or Good-will, yet we seem to want Order and Method [...] a Club or Society of active Men belonging to each Fire Engine; whose Business is to attend all Fires with it whenever they happen..."</p><p>Benjamin Franklin, 1735 - <br>initiating the first US fire brigade in Philadelphia, who "serve the town, every house and all"</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/LosAngelesFires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>LosAngelesFires</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/fires" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>fires</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/ClimateCrisis" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ClimateCrisis</span></a>, <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/PalisadesFire" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PalisadesFire</span></a>, </p><p>via: <a href="https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-02-02-0002" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">founders.archives.gov/document</span><span class="invisible">s/Franklin/01-02-02-0002</span></a></p>