generally, fire fighting company officers' helmets are red in the us.
generally, fire fighting company officers' helmets are red in the us.
generally, what color are fire fighting company officers' helmets in the us?
red
bullet::::- "the mechanical company" organized as first volunteer fire fighting company in town and a "baltimore fire engine and wharf lottery" is proposed on july 16 to be held to provide additional funds to complete the construction of the new market house, buy two engines and purchase leather buckets with the winning drawing held on dec. 26th. six years later, a new revolutionary invention, a hand fire engine is discovered on board a dutch ship anchored in the harbor, which the company buys for 99 pounds sterling (=$264) and named it "the dutchman", enabling baltimoreans to boast that they had a fire engine ten years before boston and thirty years before paris. mechanical company of volunteer firemen, later forms a local militia unit and develops into a social and political club which endures 250 years later. the mechanical fire company is followed for the next several decades by several other fire-fighting companies to approximately 17 by unification in 1858.
timeline of baltimore
two important structures in amtgard culture are the fighting company and the household, both voluntary memberships. a fighting company is essentially a military structure, much like a "clan" in any multi-player video game, whereas a household is devoted to some cultural or personal goals, such as the arts, benevolence, common interests, etc. both generally place a high value on contributing to the club as a whole, and often have a specific mission statement.









































a number of slang terms have evolved within the amtgard community, a few of the most common are as follows:
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