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The Royal Arcerion Fire Service is led by the Commissioner, currently Nathan Hillsborough, appointed by the Minister of the Interior. Within the Arcer government, it is one of the oldest established non-military federal institutions. | The Royal Arcerion Fire Service is led by the Commissioner, currently Nathan Hillsborough, appointed by the Minister of the Interior. Within the Arcer government, it is one of the oldest established non-military federal institutions. | ||
== History == | == History == | ||
== Pre-Founding == | === Pre-Founding === | ||
Prior to the establishment of the Fire Service, firefighting in Arcerion was purely volunteer-based and done by locals. Individual towns and villages had vastly disparate amounts of fire equipment and manpower, leading to a vast difference in responses and ability. This was identified as a problem during two major fires, the first in 1807 in Kurst, which destroyed a low-rent neighbourhood, killing several dozen people. The second occurence burned the port facilities of Chester-on-Moore for several days until the blaze could be brought under control in 1822. The Chester-on-Moore Port Fire crippled maritime trade and the influx of immigrants and new settlers to Arcerion for several years, and during the boom and increase in colonial population growth, many thousands of these settlers ended up in Kurst or Kinnaird, which ultimately would end with them becoming larger and more influential cities in Arcerion. | |||
The economic impact of the fire created an urgent need to establish better firefighting protocols and a more structured response. The Confederate Parliament in 1841 drafted a memo to the Carnish Crown, identifying that fire and emergency services in Arcerion has to be improved. The monarchy internalized the report, and in 1845 provided guidance and permission for the creation of a school to train firefighters, based in Kurst. The Royal Arcerion Firefighting Institute was constructed and trained several generations of volunteer firefighters, prior to the Royal Decree establishing the FIre Service two years later. | |||
=== Early History (1847-1900) === | === Early History (1847-1900) === | ||
The Royal Decree issued by the Carnish Crown in 1847, upon the advice of the Crown-Governer of Arcerion and the Confederate Parliament established the provision for a 1,000-strong firefighting service, which was to be bestowed with the 'Royal' title and provide services to Kurst, Kinnaird, and Chester-on-Moore. It would also incorporate the Royal Lifesaving Service, a small boat and sea rescue volunteer organization that had been operating since the earliest settlements in Arcerion. The amalgamation of these two services was formalized in the summer of 1847, and several hundred volunteer firefighters were hired as full-time firemen to serve in the new uniformed service. | |||
By 1870, the Fire Service had expanded operations into Craigfearn and Norham Governorate, with multiple smaller departments and crews based around Moorden and the first crew in Norham in 1868. The establishment of crews in Easthampton specializing in mine rescue highlighted the increasing specialization of the service, which thus far had combatted multiple major city fires, including the Royal Arcerion Ordnance Stores fire, preventing a massive explosion that could have destroyed much of Kurst in 1865. However, decentralized crews led to a disorganized approach, and the first Fire Commissioner was appointed in 1878, Stephen MacDonnell, who would centralize many of the systems and reporting methods for fires. MacDonnell introduced community fire bells, one of the first emergency signaling systems, wherein an increased response by firefighters could be leveraged with more notice of where and when fires were occurring. MacDonnell also pursued the construction of a pair of lifesaving cutters, which would then be mass-produced along the Arcer coast in small-boat rescue teams, allowing them to conduct better lifesaving operations. | |||
Investments into the Royal Arcerion Firefighting Institute also included the graduation of more recruits, and by the mid 1890s the Carnish Crown authorized an increase in the number of full-time firefighters to 4,000 - enough to satisfy the requirements of the growing Cronan colony. The rapid industrialization of Easthampton and Chester-on-Moore also required the first Fire Inspectors, a role for senior firemen to inspect buildings to ensure there was no unnecessary risk or increased chance of fire from negligent workplace practices. | |||
=== Turn of the Century Firefighting (1900-1948) === | === Turn of the Century Firefighting (1900-1948) === | ||
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