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Updated: May 17, 2025
Some of its members wear armour, with helmets and black-lacquered iron visors, and carry 'martoe, or 'fire-charms, and various necessary implements; others are clad in head-and-shoulder pieces and gauntlets of light chain-armour, to protect them while pulling down and unroofing houses, which is their especial duty.
All have a regular fire costume, from the 'Oki Yaconin, or 'head man, to the bare-legged coolie, who carries the badge of the brigade in large red characters on his back. On arriving at a fire, a point de tête is selected generally a house, on the roof of which the fire-charms are immediately fixed, as if to forbid its further advance.
Although the fire-charms were triumphant on this occasion, they did not escape unscorched, and several engines had to be kept in constant play upon them and their supporters, to prevent the one from ignition, and the other from being baked in their armour like crabs in their shells.
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