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Marcus Licinius Crassus was a member of the gens Licinia, an old and highly respected plebeian family in Rome. He was the second of three sons born to the eminent senator and vir triumphalis Publius Licinius Crassus (consul 95 BC, censor 89 BC). This line was not descended from the wealthy Crassi Divites, although often assumed to be.
Aedicula of the Excubitorium of the 7th cohort of the Vigiles in Rome. During the Roman Republic, there were watchmen that served as firefighters.They used water buckets to put out fires and axes to tear down buildings near the fire in order to prevent the fire from spreading.
François du Mouriez du Périer was appointed directeur des pompes de la Ville de Paris ("director of the City of Paris's pumps"), i.e. chief of the Paris Fire Brigade, and the position stayed in his family until 1760. In the following years, other fire brigades were created in the large French cities.
The first ever Roman fire brigade was created by Marcus Licinius Crassus. Fires were almost a daily occurrence in Rome, and Crassus took advantage of the fact that Rome had no fire department, by creating his own brigade—500 men strong—which rushed to burning buildings at the first cry of alarm.
Marcus Licinius Crassus (fl. 1st century BC), grandson of the triumvir Marcus Licinius Crassus, was a Roman consul in the year 30 BC as the colleague of Octavian (the future Roman Emperor Augustus). [1] He was best known for his successful campaigns in Macedonia and Thrace in 29–27 BC, for which he was denied customary military honors by ...
The Parthians, frightened by the advance of the Roman legions, compromised and signed a peace with Augustus, who had meanwhile arrived in the east from Samos, returning the insignia and prisoners they had taken possession of after their victory over Marcus Licinius Crassus at the Battle of Carrhae in 53 BCE. [38]
In 22 BCE he served as an aedile and became very popular with the residents of Rome by setting up a private fire brigade. In contrast to earlier enterprises of this kind, which, like the fire brigade of Marcus Licinius Crassus , only worked for payment, Egnatius made the 600 slaves he financed available free of charge to fight fires.
Crassus had built a 60 km (37 mi)-long ditch and a wall along the isthmus or Rhegium to trap Spartacus and his army. One night, a big storm happened, and Spartacus used this opportunity to escape north with most of his army. However, a force of about 20,000 slaves remained behind under Gannicus and Castus. So, Crassus decided to finish them first.