![]() The Union Fire Company was a non profit organization it was run completely by volunteers. He turned up the heat - no pun intended - and was soon able to round up some 30 of his friends and fellow business owners to co-found the Union Fire Company. Ben saw this and, putting to use some of that good old Ben Franklin cunning, published his findings in his own Philadelphia Gazette. Back then the infrastructure of a city was basically a maze of wooden buildings and houses sandwiched together in a tantalizing fashion: a bonfire’s daydream. In 1736, after a visit to his hometown of Boston Massachusetts, Ben couldn’t help but notice that the safety precautions to keep fire from spreading seemed to be pretty elite in comparison to his adopted home in Philadelphia. The kind who wasn’t afraid to get his hands a little sooty in service of his fellow man. Regardless, we think Benjamin Franklin the Firefighter is as important a title as any of these because it really goes to show the kind of man that he was. We don’t know about you, but Firefighter isn’t typically the first word we think of when talking about Ben Franklin. ![]()
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