Archive for the ‘did you know?’ Category

Tracking an order?

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

OEM / Truck Dealers

Need to track an FRC order? Let our order entry staff know you want an email when your order ships! Or, you can easily track a shipment (UPS only) with the FRC Order ID which is provided when we confirm your order.

Bookmark our tracking page or look for the link at upper right of website.

George Washington, firefighter

Tuesday, November 20th, 2007

George Washington was a volunteer firefighter at age 18 in Alexandria, VA. In 1774 he was made an honorary member of the Friendship Fire Company and helped them acquire their first engine.

HID bulbs

Saturday, November 17th, 2007

HID bulbs in the form of mercury vapor or high pressure sodium lamps have been used in outdoor lighting on neighborhood streets, in parking lots, in sports facilities and stadiums for years.

Sometimes change is good

Friday, November 16th, 2007

Fire engines of the early 1700s were pulled to the scene of a fire by the firefighters, they would then man the seesaw hand pump. Some of these required up to forty men to pump. Most did not have a suction hose, the pump had to be filled by water buckets.

The First Fire Pump

Friday, November 16th, 2007

The history of the modern Fire Service is well documented, but did you know that the fire pump is actually a *re-invention* of an idea from ancient times?

The first force-pump mentioned in recorded history is a pump designed by Ctesibius of Alexandria who died in 222BC. Unfortunately, all of this great inventor’s work was destroyed when the great library of Alexandria burned (there’s an irony for you) and we only know about Ctesibius through the surviving works of Vitruvius, Athenaeus, and Philo of Byzantium.
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