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You are here: Home / Featured / Technology and Terror: A Brief History of the 2000–2009 Fire Service

September 30, 2022

Technology and Terror: A Brief History of the 2000–2009 Fire Service

We’ve been looking back at the fire service through the decades – 1970s, 1980s and 1990s. The fire service changed, adapted and grew significantly over those 30 years. Forces propelling the changes gained momentum from social unrest, technological advances and scientific discovery, plus the significant fires and emergency incidents that prepared firefighters for a new century.

When it comes to 2000-2009, call it whatever you’d like – the aughts, the ‘00s – but the most fitting name might be the “wormhole decade.” Wormhole denotes or describes the vague feeling that we are all moving and changing in response to outside forces moving at warp speed.

Keeping up with such change was the real challenge for the fire service. Read More…

Article by mcvfasusan / Featured / history

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