<Tr> <Td> </Td> <Td> This article does not cite any sources . Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . Unsourced material may be challenged and removed . (August 2011) (Learn how and when to remove this template message) </Td> </Tr> <P> Steam pumper fire engines were used roughly from 1840 to 1920 to pump water on city fires . Large urban fire departments would invest in fire brigades, or engine companies, to assist in fire fighting . Concomitant with the steam engine would be a house, horses and dalmatian dogs (used to guide and calm the horses). The growing cities in the US west would invest in steam pumpers usually after a devastating fire that would destroy large parts of the wooden frontier town . </P> <P> The first steam pumper was built by Braithwaite and Ericcson in England in 1829 . In the following decades, European cities invested in steam powered fire equipment . </P> <P> The vertical fast firing boilers, while heavy, was an effective fire fighting equipment . For a few years, c. 1910 - 20, the horses were retired and the steam pumper was hauled by a gas tractor . </P>

When were horses steam pumpers and motorized fire engines introduced and used in the fire service