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[[File:Firefighters Microcosm edited.jpeg|thumbnail|300px350px|left|Figure 1. The London Great Fire was a key event that shaped firefighting for the next century and a half. ]]
Firefighting began to be a focus only with the rise of very large cities such as Rome. Earlier cities, such as those in Mesopotamia or the Indus, likely developed ad hoc firefighting departments and respondent to events. As with other institutions, however, the history of firefighting is complicated and influenced by major technical and social change that occurred in different centuries.
