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Bucket brigade
Method for transporting items / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the electronic delay line, see Bucket-brigade device. For the hacking method known as the bucket brigade attack, see Man-in-the-middle attack. For the non-profit environmental health and justice organization, see Louisiana Bucket Brigade.
A bucket brigade or human chain is a method for transporting items where items are passed from one (relatively stationary) person to the next.
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The method was important in firefighting before the advent of hand-pumped fire engines, whereby firefighters would pass buckets of water to each other to extinguish a blaze. This technique is still common where using machines to move water, supplies, or other items would be impractical.
This method needs a number of participants sufficient for covering the distance.