This is what medieval 'fire safety' looks like 🔥

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[Marcello-]

Fun fact, fires was also one of the reasons city guards would carry halberds instead of spears. A halberd allowed them to act as security and have a fire axe in one tool. Fire fighters today still use a tool similar called a fire pike

[SysterYster]

It's the same in some places in Sweden as well. Old medieval cities also had trees in the streets between houses to reduce the risk of fire spreading between the houses.

[alexanderhaas]

This small gaps between houses can be an "Ehgraben"

[AudieHolland]

People wouldn't actually be running to and fro with a single bucket.

They would organize bucket brigades where human chains would stretch all the way from the source of water to the fire.

However primitive this may appear today, people handing buckets of water from the person next to them to the person next in line was the most advanced way of fighting fires untill the invention of the firehose.

[chrisstehlik]

I visited Bruges a few years ago and I saw those tiny streets !

[Joytotheworld]

That was a lot of surprising things to learn 🤣

[davidyates]

basically to take a piss in as your a fire man !

[madarab]

It was either Mainz or Weisbaden I saw they had signs on the alleyways leading to the river, so in case of fire you know where to run to fill a bucket.

[jeanneganrude]

Bots abound here, sorry. Your video is really interesting and I remember Bruges being such a beautiful little city. ♥️

[ObscurityCentral]

I was in Bruges last year, how did we pass each other by?!😅

[reneedeeks]

We have these in the Bronx probably Brooklyn too

[high-velocitymammal]

That didn't really tell me how they relate to fire safety.
You just said they were for loading goods between the houses and the canal, and if there was a fire you would run instead of walk?

[jamesv]

Its not that they hated safty back then. They just had to learn

[WiseGuy]

Nice Tartarian Buildings
You can Cleary See the Atmosphere Generator on Top of the Tower hidden with Crosses 😂🙄

[Captain-Jinn]

I hear Bruges either a fairytale or a shithole, no in-between

[FireDragonArmy]

I really hate that the world calls this Flemish city by a French name. It’s called Brugge, not Bruges, ffs.

[SuperPieninja]

In America those alleyways would be red light districts

[damianstasek]

Clever? They were all dumb as a box of rocks. We need to abandon every city and build 100% new cities with actual thought and planning.

[TheDramacist]

WRONG, they're where you put your bins

[bigbo]

It’s not medieval fire safety, it’s Roman fire safety; as Rome grew into the world’s foremost metropolitan area, fires became increasingly problematic, with a small mishap in a bakery potentially leading to a city-wide fire which would severely hamper the capital city of the Roman state, and over the course of centuries, the Romans built up a hefty system of building codes and firefighting measures which medieval entities would continue to uphold for their remarkable success in combating fire.