The sentence you provided is a simple sentence. It contains a single independent clause with a subject ("Benjamin Franklin") and a predicate ("raised public awareness about firefighting methods and organized the first fire department in Philadelphia"). There are no subordinate clauses, which means it does not qualify as complex or compound-complex.
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Which type of sentence is this?
Benjamin Franklin—scientist, inventor, and one of America's founding fathers—raised public awareness about firefighting methods and organized the first fire department in Philadelphia.
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simple
simple
compound
compound
complex
complex
compound-complex
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