PTE Reading
Re-order Paragraphs
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Re-order Paragraphs
Arrange the sentences into the correct order.
Put the sentences in the correct order:
- Today many of these same brigades still operate as volunteer units, now equipped with radios and breathing apparatus but rooted in that original spirit of neighbours protecting neighbours.
- Motorised pumps replaced the old hand engines in the early twentieth century, allowing a single brigade to cover a much wider area.
- As towns grew and insurance companies began underwriting property, the brigades were formally organised and issued uniforms and badges.
- These men trained on weekends, learning to operate hand-pumped engines and to form bucket chains from the nearest well.
- Long before professional fire services existed, small towns relied on volunteer brigades to protect their wooden buildings.