When.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network

2. Vigiles - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vigiles

   Vigiles were stationed at the harbour cities of Ostia and Portus. A vexillatio (detachment) of four centuries was detached from Rome for four months at a time, with two centuries being stationed at each city. During the Great Fire of Rome, the vigiles took to looting the city rather than enforcing law and fighting the fires. [8]

3. Firefighting in ancient Rome - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firefighting_in_Ancient_Rome

   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. The aediles and tresviri nocturni were also employed to fight fires.

4. Praefectus vigilum - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Praefectus_vigilum

   Plan of imperial Rome with the seven districts controlled by the cohorts and the position of each cohort. The offices of the praefectus vigilum were located in the Campus Martius, perhaps in the quadriportico of the theatre of Balbus (along the via Lata), inside the barracks of the First Cohort of Vigiles (Latin: statio primae cohortis vigilum). [2]

5. History of firefighting - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_firefighting

   Roman Emperor Augustus formed a group of slaves, Vigiles, in AD 6 to combat fires using bucket brigades and pumps, as well as poles, hooks and even ballistae to tear down buildings in advance of the flames. The Corps Vigiles patrolled the streets of Rome to watch for fires and served as a police force. The later brigades consisted of hundreds ...

6. Great Fire of Rome - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome

   The Great Fire of Rome (Latin: incendium magnum Romae) began on the 18th of July 64 AD. [1] The fire started in the merchant shops around Rome's chariot stadium, Circus Maximus . After six days, the fire was brought under control, but before the damage could be assessed, the fire reignited and burned for another three days.

7. Cohortes urbanae - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cohortes_urbanae

   Their primary role was to police Rome and counteract roaming mobs and gangs that often haunted its streets during the Republic. The urban cohorts thus acted as a heavy duty police force, capable of riot control duties, while their contemporaries, the Vigiles , policed the streets and fought fires.