The history of fire department manpower units
From flying squadrons to squads ...
“BUCKET BRIGADE to Flying Squadron” was the title of a book written by Herbert T. Jenness and published in 1909 by George Ellis Company, Boston. It combined in this name the primitive fire bucket and the then latest in fire fighting strategy— the motorized flying squadron, or squad, as it is now abbreviated. Flying squadron was a good designation, conveying as it did the idea of speed and distance, in contrast to the 15-mph-horse-drawn apparatus of limited operating range in that era.
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