"Two competing fire brigades ran alongside horse-drawn apparatus. It’s not too far of a stretch to believe, as they arrived on the scene, that they immediately knew the fire was going to be one of epic notoriety. So of course there was the obligatory brawl for first dibs to fight it." https://lithub.com/draft-riots-tammany-hall-and-a-fire-at-barnums-museum-the-birth-of-the-nyc-fire-department/