Oldie from 1951 featuring E58/L26 detailing fire in NYC. Thanks to FDNY Chief JK (68jk09) for sending along this classic video!
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@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking2 ай бұрын
This video cries out for restoration, and upscale. TY for the upload!
@tomh36527 жыл бұрын
Now they were real firefighters no frills like power steering, air conditioned rigs. They had open cab rigs and limited gear compared to today. Great video.
@davidspiro13256 жыл бұрын
The dangers never change. RIP FF Michael Davidson, killed two days ago while fighting a fire on a movie set in Harlem.
@Cashcrop546 жыл бұрын
When you get right down to it firefighting hasn't changed all that much. Alarm, Respond, Work Hard, Take up, return & wait for the next one. More techno today but the men haven't changed either. Brave, strong and dedicated!
@randymcnary3086 жыл бұрын
That's it in a nutshell!
@sully8016 жыл бұрын
I love the old exhaust whistles.
@TorontoJediMaster3 жыл бұрын
When were modern sirens start to come into use?
@thomass.81274 жыл бұрын
I was on the job when the bells were still being used and the alarm assignment cards. I remember my DAD standing on the running board of a truck going down Metropolitan Ave.
@bohemoth14 жыл бұрын
Ladder Company 128?
@azul8811 Жыл бұрын
@@bohemoth1 L-140 perhaps?
@MrJim7236 жыл бұрын
My brother was a Minneapolis Fireman who was born and raised in NY. He would have enjoyed this video.
@Sereno444 жыл бұрын
Hard times in New York with aging buildings and population growing up (the famous baby boom after WWII) ... and those Firemen were heroes, using rubber boots, leader helmets, and going hanging on the Engine or Ladder... no air protection ...
@michaelswinehart27883 жыл бұрын
I remember wearing the rubber, felt lined coats when i first started up. Just like the brothers are wearing in this video. Showin' my age !!!
@user-io6xw7zv5o9 ай бұрын
Me too brother. Memories
@vartilaknovehestum49477 жыл бұрын
That ladder company reminds me of Ladder Company 128 hand cranking the ladder with Engine Company 259 during the 60s when I was an Auxiliary Fire Captain. Then I got drafted and went into the Navy.
@firefighterfan2010 Жыл бұрын
The real firefighters are good today!🚒👨🚒
@THEMAJESTIRIUM18 жыл бұрын
VERY NICE VINTAGE VIDEO! ;o)
@jimmypearce93238 жыл бұрын
I must agree....since that video and I are the same vintage!! I was kicking the slats in my cradle when that was filmed...
@THEMAJESTIRIUM18 жыл бұрын
HEHEHE! ;o)
@JB917107 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Me too! While my father and grandfather were doing that in Stamford, Ct.
@bohemoth15 жыл бұрын
@@jimmypearce9323 I was still in my moms' womb.
@johnhintz47608 жыл бұрын
So the F.D.N.Y. Used Exhaust Whistles till at Least till the early 60's.This is Good Footage!..🚒
@bxbuff8 жыл бұрын
+John Hintz No...the exhaust whistles were long gone by then. But the media used them (from the old days) to give some "noise" to their otherwise silent news films.
@bxbuff6 жыл бұрын
The exhaust whistles were done away with in the late 40s, after WWII, which is why they had them in the first place. They couldn't have sirens during the War, because they didn't want them to be confused with air raid sirens. The whistles did a lot of damage to the motors on the rig, since they prevented exhausted from exiting the engine itself. The whistles in this video were added on by the production company who made the video, which was a common practice in TV news in those days.
@michaelswinehart27884 жыл бұрын
Put enough water in it, until the piano floats out the front door !!!!!!! An old saying my dad would say sometimes fightin fires.
@thereal420zzz8 жыл бұрын
Great video
@tyronesandoval23484 жыл бұрын
God bless FDNY
@Vladimir-Putin-2 жыл бұрын
10:00 they still teach us to raise 2 or 3 fly ladders like that at the academy
@bohemoth15 жыл бұрын
September 11, 1951 September 11, 2001 Both in Manhattan New York City?
@smedleybutler19694 жыл бұрын
Exactly 50 years!
@michaelgalliganojr.50864 жыл бұрын
Both Tuesday too
@deadass_deezy07274 жыл бұрын
I was thinking about that too
@JustinNYCode3.3 жыл бұрын
Oh wow’
@spenner35293 жыл бұрын
the Fire Factory in action
@joespag262 жыл бұрын
They Just Don’t Move That Fast Anymore !!
@davidrogers6287Ай бұрын
Lookup Stockton Fire Dept. They do.
@Justanunderaveragekyle6 жыл бұрын
Does anybody know what company house that is they show the engine and truck responding out of? 7:00
@bxbuff6 жыл бұрын
E.58, L. 26, their old house, where the projects are today
@MichaelSheehy756 жыл бұрын
Yes E58, L26, old quarters. Company is known as the “Fire Factory”. Also, Box 1359 is ST NICHOLAS AVE at W 113 ST.
@skipd91645 жыл бұрын
I have great respect for men and women firefighters. But in those days u needed big b#lls. Not only to fight fires but to drive to them. Why were the apparatuse not covered cabs like regular trucks . Can anyone tell me
@JS-kz9xl3 жыл бұрын
Traditionally there were NO cabs at all ( horse Drawn early Motorized era) having NO roof To Obscure your view ALLOWED the members To SEE where the fire/SMOKE and People Hanging out windows were, Inside A CAB that's Impossible, also Before You arrive at the scene One can often smell WHAT was burning What type of Fire for example Food on the stove Vs a Room and contents or Multiple Apartments or Gasoline (accelerant) or Natural Gas leaking and so sometimes that indication as you pull up... rather then waste Time walking around Looking for some indication Especially with Buildings over 2 storys
@slackjawedyokel12 жыл бұрын
also to look for overhead obstructions -and many times the captain would stand to check intersections and also help see where to spot the apparatus and a little quicker sizeup of the whole scene -
@skipd91642 жыл бұрын
@@slackjawedyokel1 also firefighters road on the back . They just hung on
@blainenodes81826 ай бұрын
born1947 St Paul... every rig/ ladder/ squad was open cabs in MN 🥶❄️🌬️⚡... 1st enclosed cab came in 1963😮
@MusicLoverPearson3 жыл бұрын
Wow they weren't wearing oxygen masks to fight the fire that's when they were called Smoke Eaters?
@TorontoJediMaster3 жыл бұрын
SCBA's weren't common until at least a decade later. Even then, they weren't as commonly used like they would be today. Dennis Smith's famous memoir, "Report from Engine Co. 82", about firefighting in The Bronx of the early to mid 1970's, recounts rushing in with a hose, WITHOUT wearing a mask in order to get water on the fire quickly. They were then relieved by firefighters who had masks.