Fire & Rescue (1993 VHS)

[@brettwimmer7689]

I wore the VHS tape of this out from watching it so much as a kid. And now I’ve got 22 years in the fire service and this movie was a big reason as to why I wanted to be a firefighter

[@hosedragger-204]

For me it was this, along with the movie Ladder 49. Watched the DVD of ladder 49 so often that it was eventually "lost" 🤣 Nowadays, I'm coming up on 5 years of service as an "On-Call" firefighter in my town, and am the 5th generation of my family to become a firefighter.

[@GriffinMoore-er4qo]

I also watched this a lot! Now I’m a 4th year Fire Cadet and I’m in school to get my EMT certification.

[@ericdircks]

I Wore The VHS Tape Of This Out From Watching It So Much As a Kid. And Now I've Got 22 Years In The Fire Service And This Movie Was A Big Reason As To Why I Wanted To Be a Firefighter For Me It Was This Along With The Movie Ladder 49. Watched The DVD Of Ladder 49 So Often That It Was Eventually Lost Nowadays I'm Coming Up On 5 Years Of Service As An On- Call" Fire fighter In My Town And Am...

[@geoffg8840]

​@@ericdirckswhatre you? A parrot?

[@rp1645]

Thank you all that continued on, and I chose that work as a padded professional Let's not forget the volunteer who have to spend so much of there time training in the new environment issues of Haz-Mat being just one of the special training that a volunteer does when they spend so much of there off regular work time to broaden there skills. And in 2024 the EMS ( mainly drug ODs) calls that amount for so many call outs. For myself, I spent my entire work job doing the silent service of FF worked WATER utilities. Now, in retirement, I bought a 1989 Spartan Gladiator pumper with a W-S Darley 1500 GPM pump. Its power is a Silver 92 series Detroit Diesel ( turbo)with an Allison 4 automatic transmission with a manual Retarder engine brake switch. 😊 She has some repairs I need to address in the piping. One is a cracked in tank to pump housing, and a pre- connect on cross bed won't shut off. The water TANK doesn't have any leaks (great thing) 😊❤😊 removed all the Airpack tanks from the side compartment and filled it up with fire extgishers. I kept two in (4) man inclosed jump seats for static displays. The big one was removing the officers Airpack set up in the officers seat. My wife wanted that gone first. And boy doesn't know how driver saw out of officers side rear mirror. With an officer and his bunker gear ( turnouts) on me as a driver, could NOT see the mirrors. My wife hated that padded back airpack set up in the seat. 😊 love doing public events or open houses at different FDs in my area. Take her to our Friday night summer old car and music set up local wrecking yard owner does The car guys like when I tilt the cab to show that big DD eng with the huge turbo 😊 The kids at public events love getting in the drivers seat and pretending to drive her, with parents taking pictures of their future FF. That how I try and promote kids of all ages to look at FF as a possible forever job in their future working life.

[@mikemahoney3621]

This tape was a hand me down from an older cousin when I was a kid. Made me fall in love it’s firefighting. Here I am now watching this before I go to bed on my first tour after my probationary period.

[@RenegadeChauffeur]

Congrats brother!!

[@Stargazzer811]

Congrats man! Welcome to the Best Job in the World!

[@ericdircks]

This Tape Was a Hand Me Down From An Older Cousin I Was A Kid. Made Me Fall In Love It's Firefighting . Here I Am Now Watching This Before I Go To Bed On My First Tour After My Probationary Period.

[@johnny937]

Stay safe bro! This movie launched my career as well! There’s something to be said about finding a profession where you look forward to going to work everyday. It’s truly the best job in the world and I wish you all the best! Hope you learn to love this job as much as all the rest of us who love being firemen day in and day out!

[@ryanwhipple7275]

I was born 2005 and I believe I had this on DVD and me and my dad watched it constantly. Best thing I ever watched.

[@hosedragger-204]

I think my family still has this as a VHS tape after the town library let me keep it because we'd borrowed it so many times when I was little that they said to just keep it because no one else ever borrowed it 😅😂

[@Haydenwolf344]

I got the DVD too 😊and I also watched it with my mom

[@PlankReal]

oh my god. haven't watched this bad boy in about 16 years. it was the DVD version but seeing this again is an absolute nostalgia trip.

[@Haydenwolf344]

That's what im saying!!

[@squidog94]

Been a fireman 7 years now and this plus “There Goes a Fire Truck” and “There Goes a Rescue Vehicle” shaped my childhood 😂

[@Nickdude56]

The local library always had this when I was a kid (2010s ish). My mom checked this out for me more times than I can even imagine. Really shaped my love for all things first responders.

[@Average_Joe87]

I've been looking for this movie on KZbin for the longest time. Loved the movie as a kid.

[@phillipnetzorg3402]

Thanks for the memories. 1977 I started as a volunteer firefighter, first job, the hydrant person. Riding on the tailboard of the fire engine, stepping off with the hydrant gate valve, 2.5" hose & hydrant wrench. West Linn, Oregon

[@SeanMcReynolds025]

When I was kids firefighters were my heroes. My mom would rent fire trucks VHS tapes from the library. “Fire & Rescue” was easily my favorite. I just loved Fred Levine’s show don’t tell approach to filming. The fires and rescue scenes look so realistic and the music makes you feel like you’re a part of the action.

[@ericdircks]

When I Was Kids Firefighters We're My Heroes. My Mom Would Rent Fire Trucks VHS Tapes From The Library. " Fire & Rescue" Was Easily My Favorite. I Just Loved Fred Levine Show Don't Tell Approach To Filming. The Fires And Rescue Scenes Look So Realistic And The Music Makes You Feel Like You're a Part Of The Action.

[@bigben3648]

I never thought i'd see this again! Like several other guys here, i watched my vhs copy many many times. 18 years in the fire service at this point and this was a big part of it

[@BRAVOACTUAL]

Oh my god core memory unlocked. I borrowed this from my Library so much as a kid it wore the tape out.

[@saysayblow231]

I remember as a kid I had the DVD of this video and it inspired me to become a firefighter like my father who’s been my inspiration as well, very soon my childhood dream will come true

[@joshy_b_823]

Thank you for this. I'm 35 and was a volunteer firefighter for many years, and I remember having this on VHS and watching it many many times as a kid. Nice little trip into the past!

[@thomasp942]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@NathanielTexas]

Thank you so much for this upload. I grew up on this as a kid. I was thinking about this a few weeks ago and didn’t think I’d ever see it again.

[@cameroncrazie1321]

Major core memory for me. This video is one of the first things that piqued my interest in the fire service. Im 35 and remember watching this on VHS every few months growing up.

[@Zaltic]

I had this on VHS and watched it all the time as a kid. Now I've been a first responder for almost 8 years

[@Lone_Lantern_878]

🙋‍♂️ One of the main reasons I joined the fire service, forever will be my childhood, thank you for uploading this.

[@thomasp942]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@jaykobb.stephens2446]

Awesome time capsule. Guess it's safe to say most of the men and trucks in this tape have long since retired.

[@JATrainsRC]

Years…YEARS I’ve been wondering if I would ever see this again!

[@dallasjewett1295]

I use to watch this. I love firefighters and paramedics

[@TheGraduateApple]

19:37 this shot with the K12 cutting into metal always made me crack up as a kid, the sound it made was the reason

[@josephlacarrubba8219]

Retired in 2000 and you proved (Again) boys and girls never grow up! Just get great jobs!

[@frankydman]

I remember this tape! Thank you so much for posting!

[@thomasp942]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@fredsmith8498]

7:17 that’s the sound when you say bad words

[@Stargazzer811]

Whats amazing is, the way it was done when this was shot is more or less the way its done in the 2020s. Even the training segments they show are fairly accurate.

[@jonathankerestes1711]

My Dad bought me on tape when he was in the fire service and I followed in his footsteps as a firefighter like him. He knew I would be a firefighter.

[@nseay92]

been looking online for this for years!

[@waynesummey5051]

Like this very much. I have never seen it. My interest started as a six year old seeing our neighbors house catch fire in the 60's. The shock of seeing a house built just like ours being destroyed made me want to fight fires.

[@WilleJamesHuff]

This dept had some nice equipment for 93

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

At 23:51, this 1991 Kovatch was used like a pack mule.... All the way up until a few years ago when it was finally retired from Trenton, NJ. Now, note some dubbed-in Hollywood siren SFX (notably the PA300 from Die Hard) and a bizzare jump cut from Montpellier, Vermont (alarm sounds...) back to Trenton, NJ. This video does not hold up well in the editing department.

[@geoffg8840]

​@@shaneharrisnj3484thats why it was made for kids...

[@jeremymuther8656]

Was born in 1989 one of my favs when I was a kid 🎉🎉

[@LKS-1976]

I was in the Army from mid/late 90s as a Paratrooper/medic for Infantry. Earned my paramedic cert while in the Army, 1996, recall watching this, takes me back. Got out of Army in 99, been a firefighter/paramedic since, now, just do medic stuff. Started on engine, 75 Mack, was a god damned beast. Miss that truck.

[@kylegale6037]

This dvd is the reason I’m a fireman.

[@maxumperry4632]

If only i could be growing up back in the 80’s/90’s and wake up to a two stroke detroit race down the street.

[@CoorsLight2025]

the station wagon with the overhead light bar looks top heavy 😃

[@MaxZomboni]

If it were up to me emergency vehicles today would be required to use those same light bars, instead of the junk they use now. In those days I always saw the lights before I heard the sirens. Today even with my bad hearing I'm more likely to hear the sirens and air horns before I see the lights. Cool thing about revolving lights is that the emergency vehicles didn't even have to be in view to know they were there. If you were getting ready to make a blind turn, you knew something was up around the corner even before you turned, just by the light beams bouncing off of everything. Now you make a turn and suddenly see emergence vehicles parked in the middle of the street right in front of you.

[@cat275hp]

The station wagon was not a chiefs car, it was the fire inspectors car. Used it as a prop in the movie. In fact, the voice that dispatches the companies to the water rescue is the fire inspector talking from the radio in that car.

[@Kritix-yx5qs]

OMG THIS IS THE VHS MOVIE THAT INSPIRED ME TO BECOME A FIREFIGHTER

[@shaunwhite421]

Ugghhhh that back breaker stretcher

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

7:10 "Rock Garden" from Killer Tracks/Universal Production Music... I heard this a lot, especially on NASCAR events on TNN (Paramount Network) and TBS back in the late 90s... Primarily used for commercial lead-ins and lead-outs. Heck, It was also on the 1997 Pennsylvania 500 qualifying session on Fox Sports Net* (which was produced by TBS and TNN's race producers at the time... World Sports Enterprises, which was shut down in 2000 after TBS and TNN left NASCAR due to the new 2001-06 contracts that involved NBC, and its new race producer TNT, plus the debut of Fox and its then sister channel, FX)

[@nickmoore1177]

I love the firefighter video I used to watch it i was 3 years old

[@THATAIMBOT]

Gooooood old days❤

[@bubbabearhuntington2295]

You working?

[@patstroman5717]

Trenton nJ fire dept station one

[@fire32njetta]

Annnnd I’m back to my childhood ❤

[@haskins_halligan]

Two things. Music? And currently going through firefighter 1 and seeing this for the first time I am glad that safety was taken seriously. Opening that many vents literally feeds the fire and makes it worse. Also lack of SCBA usage near the IDLH. Guess that's exactly why the best of the best are called Smoke Divers

[@nikerailfanningttm9046]

I remember a Tonka ambulance that I bought my son had this as a dvd packaged with it. Holy shit is this nostalgic, and that’s coming from me; a father.

[@ndaguanno]

Very cool throwback! Watching it hoping there are lots of detroits!

[@shaneharrisnj3484]

Unfortunately, there are plenty of dubbed-in PA300 sounds from Die Hard.

[@MichaelLovely-e6d]

I always enjoy seeing the scenes with the Dalmatian because Dalmatians are my all-time favorite dog breed.

[@SOU6900]

I had a couple of VHS tapes like this one.

[@michaelarmstrong3232]

Yeah I remember when I was a little kid wanting to be a fireman 🧑‍🚒🧑‍🚒🧑‍🚒🚒🚒🚒🔥🔥🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@brandonseyfried1251]

13:41 the chief straight-up leather-lungin' it.

[@RADIO_GUY_103]

Somehow I’m 21 and never heard of this film…😭😭😭 I missed a part of my childhood 💀

[@ritirons2726]

Trenton FD Calhoun St fire station.

[@Photoshop5857]

damn I'm old. and I wasn't born in the 90s. I watched this when I was young.

[@waynesummey5051]

You too? I came off the production line in 1962. 😮

[@Photoshop5857]

​@@waynesummey5051 I'm 2002

[@geoffg8840]

Ladder 1 is a beast!

[@slapshot1343]

OMG I had this tape!

[@MaxZomboni]

Much nicer equipment then the slow, oversize, bloated apparatuses firefighters use today. I miss watching firefighters arrive at a fire scene forward laying the hoses as they arrive and coming off the trucks in full gear ready to start fighting the fire the second their feet touch the ground. 🚒😎👍

[@cat275hp]

I remember when they filmed this... I had 1 year on the job. The senior guys didn't treat the 2 actors well (the guy narrator with the mustache and the girl throwing the baseball) because they were walking around the firehouses in class-B uniform wearing the badge. The senior guys said they didn't earn the honor to wear the badge & uniform! BTW... @ 22 min, the actor came out of the utility closet to enter the kitchen LOL.

[@fredsmith8498]

7:17 that’s the inappropriate language sound

[@brandonseyfried1251]

Dear Santa, All I want for Christmas is a 1977 "covered wagon" Mack CF engine. And a 75 foot single-axle Aerialscope, if you think I've been good. Thanks Santa, Brandon.

[@MahamdKhalid-z8h]

لكنهم رجال الإطفاء ابطال و شجعان

[@jordangray9793]

I wore this VHS out... this is why im a FF/Paramedic

[@fredsmith8498]

9:04

[@bubbabearhuntington2295]

STRAIGHT BORE! RAAAAAAHHH!!!!!

[@DerekVinson-hu8ng]

Only trained firefighters are allowed to fight the fire

[@jacobkeppler1984]

I have this vhs at home

[@michaelarmstrong3232]

🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🔥🔥🔥🚒🚒🚒🧑‍🚒🧑‍🚒🧑‍🚒💪💪💪💪👍👍

[@Thug-12Na]

Haha i thought firefighters not soldiers🤣

[@rwhitely2288]

I started in 1988 and ended in 2023. I walked out the door with four bugles and this: you kids are spoiled and life was better before LED lights.

[@bobbymcloughlin3452]

Cab Code For Trucks, Utility Cars, Engine Trucks (Such As Fire Engine), Vans, Etc. Singular Shift Cab = 3 Or 4 Seats, 2 For Driver's Own Self In Need Seating Space Cab = 5, 6, 7 Or 8 Seats, Doored Seater (Quad). As Fit For Your Crew Seating Space Cab-Over / Composite Cab. As Fit For Your Crew Triple Cab = 7, 8, 9, Ten, Eleven Or Twelve Seats. Doored Seater (Treduple) Quad Cab = Four Rows Of Seats (8 Doors) Passenger Cabs = Truck Cabs 5-Fold, 6-Fold, 7-Fold, 8-Fold, Etc. Treduple Is An Appropriate Word, Latin For 6th Plus Tre (Three) x Duple (2 Fold) Singulus = One Fold Doubulus = Two Fold Triplus = Three Fold Quadulus = Four Fold Quintuplus = Five Fold Treduplus = Six Fold Septuplus = Sief Fold Octuplus = Eahten Fold Nonuplus = Nine Fold Decuplus = Ten Fold Eletuplus = Eleven Fold Denuplus = Twelve Fold And So Forth And So Forth I Use Base Twelve 0 = Zero, 1 = One, 2 = Two, 3/ʒ = Three 4/ᔦ = Four, 5 = Five, 6 = Six, 7 = Sief 8 = Eahten, 9 = Nine, ? = Ten, 〿 = Eleen 10 = Twelve, 11 = Onelve, 12 = Twensief 13/1ʒ = Thirtweelf, 14/1ᔦ = Fourtweelf, 15 = Fiftweelf 16 = Sixtweelf, 17 = Sieftweelf, 18 = Eahtentweelf 19 = Ninetweelf, 1? = Tentweelf, 1〿 = Eleentweelf 20 = Twenty, 21 = Twenty-One, 22 = Twenty-Two 23/2ʒ = Twenty-Three, 24/2ᔦ = Twenty-Four, 25 = Twenty-Five 26 = Twenty-Six, 27 = Twenty-Sief, 28 = Twenty-Eahten 29 = Twenty-Nine, 2? = Twenty-Ten, 2〿 = Twenty-Eleen 30/ʒ0 = Thirty, 40/ᔦ0 = Forty, 50 = Fifty 60 = Sixty, 70 = Siefty, 80 = Eahtenty 90 = Ninety, ?0 = Tenty, 〿0 = Eleenty 100 = One Hundred (Twelvesquare) And So Forth Eight (8) Is The Only Number Digit More Than A Syllable Unless You Count Nought (0) As Zero