Follow in the footsteps of the founding father's "13 Virtues" personal makeover scheme toward the best version of yourself. Forged in fire is used to describe a person or character who has become stronger through enduring difficult or challenging experiences.Ben Franklin founded the Union Fire Company in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in 1736. This fire company was the first volunteer fire company of its kind in the US. There is something forged in all of us that can only be forged through fire. Perhaps intense periods of struggle, pain, betrayal, persecution, and rejection. Open burning is the single greatest cause of wildfires in NYS. According to his autobiography, Franklin invented the Pennsylvania fireplace in 1742, but the winter of 1739–40 is a more likely date. Many Quakers advocated defensive wars.