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Candles and fire management before the age of electricity. Were small fires common? What kind of etiquette or rules were common? How in an age of greater alcohol consumption did more fires not happen? Or did they? How did people fight small fires besides buckets of water?

by /u/ScottColvin in /r/AskHistorians

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