It was not until 1867, when Kansas City began to feel the prosperous reaction of commercial enterprise succeeding the war, that the town authorities deemed it necessary to abandon the bucket brigade for a regularly organized paid fire department.
Back in 1877 when the city Water Works was established, the city leaders assumed the high pressure from the water works would suffice for fire fighting, and so the steamers were eliminated from the fire department, leaving hose wagons and hook and ladders to do the job.
City leaders got away with this new method of fighting fires until the fire in the west bottom in March of 1881.
Germany is a federal republic whose 16 states have their own constitutions, legislatures, and governments, which can pass laws on all matters except those that are the exclusive right of the federal government such as defense, foreign affairs, and finance.
Germany was a collection of competing states until it was unified during the second half of the nineteenth century under the leadership of Otto von Bismarck.
Germany's industrial, colonial, and naval expansion was considered a threat by the British and French and was one of the main causes of World War I, in which Germany was badly defeated.
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