FDNY: "Fire in the City" 1951.

[@tomh3652]

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.

[@RichardMcGuire-ik6fl]

That’s why a lot of them died from cancer because of no SCBA, roof collapse, and being burned

[@KathrynsWorldWildfireTracking]

This video cries out for restoration, and upscale. TY for the upload!

[@Cashcrop54]

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!

[@randymcnary308]

That's it in a nutshell!

[@davidspiro1325]

The dangers never change. RIP FF Michael Davidson, killed two days ago while fighting a fire on a movie set in Harlem.

[@thomass.8127]

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.

[@bohemoth1]

Ladder Company 128?

[@azul8811]

@@bohemoth1 L-140 perhaps?

[@MrJim723]

My brother was a Minneapolis Fireman who was born and raised in NY. He would have enjoyed this video.

[@nzfirephotography]

The real firefighters are good today!🚒👨‍🚒

[@sully801]

I love the old exhaust whistles.

[@TorontoJediMaster]

When were modern sirens start to come into use?

[@Asher-k9m]

@@TorontoJediMaster1980s using an electronic wail

[@michaelswinehart2788]

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 !!!

[@MikeSwinehart]

Me too brother. Memories

[@Sereno44]

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 ...

[@Vladimir-Putin-]

10:00 they still teach us to raise 2 or 3 fly ladders like that at the academy

[@THEMAJESTIRIUM1]

VERY NICE VINTAGE VIDEO! ;o)

[@jimmypearce9323]

I must agree....since that video and I are the same vintage!! I was kicking the slats in my cradle when that was filmed...

[@THEMAJESTIRIUM1]

HEHEHE! ;o)

[@JB91710]

Jimmy Me too! While my father and grandfather were doing that in Stamford, Ct.

[@bohemoth1]

@@jimmypearce9323 I was still in my moms' womb.

[@vartilaknovehestum4947]

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.

[@johnhintz4760]

So the F.D.N.Y. Used Exhaust Whistles till at Least till the early 60's.This is Good Footage!..🚒

[@bxbuff]

+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.

[@bxbuff]

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.

[@bohemoth1]

September 11, 1951 September 11, 2001 Both in Manhattan New York City?

[@smedleybutler1969]

Exactly 50 years!

[@michaelgalliganojr.5086]

Both Tuesday too

[@deadass_deezy0727]

I was thinking about that too

[@JustinNYCode3.]

Oh wow’

[@michaelswinehart2788]

Put enough water in it, until the piano floats out the front door !!!!!!! An old saying my dad would say sometimes fightin fires.

[@tyronesandoval2348]

God bless FDNY

[@thereal420zzz]

Great video

[@spenner3529]

the Fire Factory in action

[@Justanunderaveragekyle]

Does anybody know what company house that is they show the engine and truck responding out of? 7:00

[@bxbuff]

E.58, L. 26, their old house, where the projects are today

[@MichaelSheehy75]

Yes E58, L26, old quarters. Company is known as the “Fire Factory”. Also, Box 1359 is ST NICHOLAS AVE at W 113 ST.

[@joespag26]

They Just Don’t Move That Fast Anymore !!

[@davidrogers6287]

Lookup Stockton Fire Dept. They do.

[@skipd9164]

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-kz9xl]

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

[@slackjawedyokel1]

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 -

[@skipd9164]

@@slackjawedyokel1 also firefighters road on the back . They just hung on

[@blainenodes8182]

born1947 St Paul... every rig/ ladder/ squad was open cabs in MN 🥶❄️🌬️⚡... 1st enclosed cab came in 1963😮

[@MusicLoverPearson]

Wow they weren't wearing oxygen masks to fight the fire that's when they were called Smoke Eaters?

[@TorontoJediMaster]

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.

[@stephenhanneken3041]

Not "oxygen." Plain ol' air.