a) Hundreds of years later, fire engines were equipped with p operated by hand. These did not have much force and the streams of w could not be thrown very far. Many colonial villages in the United States set up bucket b when a fire broke out. Every man ran into the street with his b and two lines were formed to the nearest water. B full of water were passed along one line and thrown on the f. The e buckets were passed down the other line to be filled. There was a great d of fire in the colonial settlements. Houses were made of w and had thatched roofs. They b d quickly.