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    Union Fire Company, sometimes called Franklin's Bucket Brigade, was a volunteer fire department formed in Philadelphia in 1736 with the assistance of Benjamin...
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    The fire led to legislation requiring improved factory safety standards and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU)...
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  • A company or "yellow" union is a worker organization which is dominated or unduly influenced by an employer and is therefore not an independent trade...
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  • Norwich Union was the name of insurance company Aviva's British arm before June 2009. It was originally established in 1797. It was listed on the London...
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    railroad companies that acquired marshland and turned it into a centralized processing area. By the 1890s, the railroad capital behind the Union Stockyards...
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    A fire department (North American English) or fire brigade (Commonwealth English), also known as a fire company, fire authority, fire district, fire and...
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    neighborhood fires with buckets. The first dedicated volunteer fire brigade was established in 1736 in Philadelphia. These volunteer companies were often...
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    company of Union Pacific Corporation, which are both headquartered at the Union Pacific Center, in Omaha, Nebraska. The original company, the "Union Pacific...
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    were all plagued by fires, and volunteer fire brigades began to form. In 1736, Benjamin Franklin founded the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia, which...
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    fire engine company went into service with its captain (foreman) Thomas Atkins. In 1736, Benjamin Franklin established the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia...
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    The company was formed in 1899 as the Union Fire Company and changed its name to Alpha Fire Company in 1900. The mission statement of Alpha Fire is: "To...
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    Marine & Nichido Fire Insurance Co., Ltd. In 2008 Tokio Marine the president of the company resigned. It was found that the company had fraudulently failed...
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    The Hand in Hand Fire & Life Insurance Society was one of the oldest British insurance companies. The company was founded in 1696 at Tom's Coffee House...
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    2019, the company received widespread media attention when investigations by the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection (Cal Fire) assigned...
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    October 29, when the fire was completely extinguished. In total, the wildfire lasted for 55 days. Another fire, called the Union Chapel Fire, began on the afternoon...
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    Commercial Union Assurance Company. The company established its head office at 24-26 Cornhill in London in 1897. It purchased the Hand in Hand Fire & Life...
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  • The Union Cypress Company operated a three-story double-band sawmill in Melbourne, Florida, built in 1912. The small company town of Hopkins (now South...
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    The New York City Fire Department, officially the Fire Department of the City of New York (FDNY) is the full-service fire department of New York City...
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  • as the North British Insurance Company, North British Fire Office and North British Fire Insurance Company. The company was established after a meeting...
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    established fire departments in the United States, the PFD traces its origins back to early volunteer companies, specifically the Union Fire Company, established...
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  • conditions, such as smoke, fire, flood, loss of air, HAZMAT release, etc.; (2) a specific assignment of multiple fire companies and/or units to a particular...
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    It was renamed the Union Steam Collier Company and then the Union Steamship Company. In 1857, renamed the Union Line, it won a contract to carry mail to...
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  • Aleppo Township Volunteer Fire Company (Aleppo, Sewickley Heights), Station 101 Allegheny County Airport Authority Fire & Rescue, Station 100 Allegheny...
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    incident in Chicago history. The fire, which broke out at Warehouse 7 of the Nelson Morris Company at the Chicago Union Stock Yards on the 4300 block of...
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  • The Union Fire Protection District, abbreviated UFPD and also known as Union Fire/Rescue, has primary responsibility for fire suppression and emergency...
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    assisted in founding the Library Company of Philadelphia, the American Philosophical Society, the Union Fire Company, and the University of Pennsylvania...
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  • "We Didn't Start the Fire" is a song written and published by American musician Billy Joel. The song was released as a single on September 18, 1989, and...
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    / 40.69750; -73.96806 On May 12, 1919, a fire broke out in the shipping department of the Rockwood & Company chocolate factory complex on Flushing Avenue...
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  • incarnation, the Union Company, was organized in 1902 in St. Louis. Two years later, the renamed Union Electric Company built the 36 MW coal-fired Ashley Street...
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    Starbucks fired multiple leaders of a Memphis, Tennessee, store's unionization efforts for breaking company store access policy, which the union described...
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