FDNY - Bronx Taxpayer Fire 1992

[@danielsarfde8425]

Love watching these professionals do what they do best they truly are the best of the United States of firefighters these guys are the role models of every small call Department in the US

[@fireguye4]

great stuff!!!! its amazing how far the fdny has come as far as equipment wise. still the ballsiest though

[@chrisedwards6200]

I was at that job up in Riverdale Bronx......took out the whole block....

[@R1SmokeEater]

The Chief explains the terminology of Taxpayer @ 8:12 in vid, listen.

[@CAR-fr2ej]

That's one of the best parts for me. The term "taxpayer" has been so bastardized over the years. People hear it and regurgitate it for things that it doesn't apply too. I hope you don't mind but I stole this clip from you. I shortened it down to the part where the Two-Seven explains what a Taxpayer is. Great stuff, keep it coming!!

[@PUFCKG]

Superb footage.

[@camoboy3116]

Never realised in the 1990's they were still wearing jeans and rubber jackets. Mental

[@dioschilote1986]

el bronx en nueva york un barrio famoso por sus pandillas y por los grandes incendios que hay ahi,no cualquiera es bombero en el bronx

[@SideswipeNA]

They are called taxpayers when it's a 1 to 2 story store, or place of business, usually with a residence attached (auto repair, supermarket, tailor, etc.)

[@SMINERD]

No residence. Taxpayers are commercial occupancies only. Someone created this residential above bs but that's not a Taxpayer. This is

[@BuffyMcBufferson]

@@SMINERD Tax Payers are stores on the bottom and residences like apartments on the top.

[@azul8811]

@@BuffyMcBufferson FROM FDNY FIREFIGHTING PROCEDURES VOLUME 1, BOOK 4 when it was originally published... 2.1 The term "Taxpayer" is not defined or recognized in the building code. The term originally referred to the practice of real estate investors who, while holding land for speculation, *resorted to minimal investment in construction* to produce income to offset the cost of taxes. *These structures were usually of cheap and flimsy construction with little or no fire retarding features.* *2.2 A taxpayer building is commonly taken to mean **_a business structure_** one or two stories in height of Class 3 construction (exterior firewalls with wooden interior structural members).* 2.3 THERE ARE THREE BROAD CATEGORIES OF TAXPAYERS: 2.3.1 The older type built from the turn of the century until the 1920's 2.3.2 The most prevalent type built from the 1920's into the 1960's. 2.3.3 The newer type construction built since the 1960's. *2.6.1 Few effective fire protection and building laws have been enacted for taxpayers.* Economic considerations and high labor costs necessitate cheap and rapid construction and mitigate any substantial fire resistive design. 3.2 COCKLOFTS 3.2.1 The cockloft is the space above the finished ceiling and the underside of the roof sheathing. *It usually is a common area extending over all the stores in the structure and can vary in height from four inches to more than six feet.* _So Sean, as you can see these types of buildings were built for commercial use, not residential. There are, of course, two story structures with a commercial occupancy on the 1st floor and a residence above, but such buildings are constructed differently and are not taxpayers, even though people may refer to them as such._

[@b3j8]

Is that William Shatner narrating this?

[@R1SmokeEater]

@@b3j8 Negative.

[@b3j8]

@@R1SmokeEater Kinda sounded like him. Okay thanks.

[@thecrooklynite2129]

4:45-4:49 lol