A Brief History of Fire Brigades
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History traces firefighting from private slave-run brigades under Crassus to London’s Great Fire of 1666 (≈10 million pounds then, ~£2 billion today), insurers issuing fire marks and forming private brigades, the 1833 London Fire Engine Establishment (about 80 firefighters, 13 stations), and the 1861 Thule Street loss that forces the 1865 Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act creating a public brigade. Modern parallels: Mirai (2016) hijacks IoT, GitHub sees 1.35 Tbps DDoS, Equifax and WannaCry expose systemic risk. The concrete proposal is publicly funded incident response and enforceable fire codes for tech.
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chapters (19)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:07The Mighty Bucket
- 1:17The Bucket Brigade
- 1:45Ancient Rome
- 3:20The Great Fire of London
- 5:34Fire Insurance
- 6:06Private Fire Brigades
- 6:26Fire Marks
- 6:57Fires Spread
- 7:23Cooperation
- 8:30The Tooley Street Fire
- 9:23The Metropolitan Fire Brigade Act of 1865
- 10:08New York City
- 11:12Seattle
- 12:48Get to the point, Jon
- 15:12Botnets & DDOS
- 16:19Ransomeware
- 18:25What Do We Have?
- 18:53Recap
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