London Fire Brigade - Shout ! (Brixton Fire Station 1983)

[@Iluvcarsforever02]

Fantastic response and you did all you could, very moving watching you try to bring the old man back and very sad he didn't make it. You guys deserve a hell of a lot more recognition for the job you do. Its sad that kids look up to people like David Beckham or Katie Price, when they should be looking at people like you, the real heroes of Britain !

[@donnaphilbin6563]

SO 🍧

[@donnaphilbin6563]

SO 🐎

[@graemebaker8985]

My dad a retired Liverpool fireman!! he joined 1976 and would have been operational at the time this was filmed!!

[@Plumduff3303]

God bless him tough job

[@Trace7768]

Saw this programme when it first came out but am thrilled to be able to watch it again. Thanks for uploading it.

[@archieblake1967]

Trace7768 you are the most patient human in the world! It's only been 30+ years!

[@supertrinigamer]

Really interesting to see the yellow pvc pants and Melton tunic actually in use.

[@elwolf8536]

That's haw they looked when I was a kid, we used to wave at them washing the engines outside the station long since shut

[@johnriddle6109]

Wow that was raw for 83. But a remarkable moment when they acted as a team , but so cruel to end as it did !

[@PaulPhilbin-wu5ny]

Questions 🥏

[@DaveJMcGarry]

My Dad retired from the LFB in 1984. Passed away from heart disease in 1986. Brave brave men each and every one.

[@pinour_2234]

What Area and Station? 👍

[@DaveJMcGarry]

@@pinour_2234 North and west London. West Hampstead, Hammersmith and Willesden. We used to live in Mill Hill near the fire station in Fire Brigade housing.

[@damian-795]

I was front line NHS amb for 14 years. Calls around that time of morning, ( between 0300 - 0600 ) were usually on the serious side. It`s changed these days though because we live in a more 24 hour society. 06:11 is called Agonal breathing, it`s a bad sign.

[@Hiterally_Litler]

I've heard it called 'guppy' breathing too, probably the punters version.

[@wangwang2048]

From the 1980s to 1997, the sirens of Hong Kong fire trucks and ambulances followed Europe. Hong Kong is a former British colony, so, sirens were followed until June 30, 1997.

[@charleshughes9396]

sorry the man didnt make it but you all did the best you could,there's going to be loss of life and there's nothing you can do to stop it,but you guys over that side of the world do one hell of a job as firefighters,i love watching videos of ya fighting fires,ya work fast and do a very great job,keep up the great work,lots of respect for you guys.

[@MrFookface]

Fascinating to watch! Thanks for posting it

[@edwardlewsey3954]

6:09 I might use this in my first aid session to demonstrate 'agonal' breathing. I'm not sure this would be filmed nowadays!

[@Fireclimbing]

Brilliant video. Great begining. Good job.

[@aldy7744]

I was stationed at Brixton the early 60s. White watch. Great station and a fantastic bunch of blokes. Old technology Proton sets for breathing apparatus, but only used in the more serious fires. Every watch had its own smoke eaters! Not very sensible, but that's the way it was those days.

[@Eggyfart83]

John Alderson I remember watching an old American firefighter documentary and the guy said you were seen as a coward if you wore BA lol. Hats off to you old school guys I couldn't even imagine having no BA in a house fire

[@jb6142]

White watch? Couldn't call it that now.. would upset any non whites on the shift!

[@RCWB74]

Brixton was my Dads' first station after passing out from STC in 1960, (No longer a Trg Centre, Now a building converted to very expensive apartments/flats) Cannot remember what Watch he was on but I think it was Red or Blue Watch, (??). I think they still only had the 3 Watches back then.

[@aldy7744]

@@RCWB74 Yes, Red /white and blue watches.What is your dads name? He must have been there when I was there. I was on white watch.

[@RCWB74]

@@aldy7744 - David Bates, he would only have been the ‘New Bloke’ in 1960. Not sure how many years he was at Brixton for. He went on to work in the ‘Ops Room’ & was driving the Control Unit, the massive Battle Bus & the then Chemical Incident Unit as well as working on the FIU wagon.

[@Finnmarken91]

Well done lads! You did the best you could

[@donnaphilbin6563]

SO 👝

[@donnaphilbin6563]

SO 💢

[@mickb2170]

I worked for the Emergency ambulance service in those days and the fireman was resuscitating with a brook airway if I remember right. The ambulanceman intubated the trachea with a to ventilate the lungs and to prevent any potential vomit from blocking the airway.

[@loescheimer]

This is just an amazing and impressive documentary.

[@kevinredmond9774]

The pole was invented by a Captain here in Chicago around the 1890's. Unfortunately a lot of firefighters died here falling through em. Too much hair of the dog before bed time.

[@ashleyhoward8926]

Safer than stairs.

[@Finnmarken91]

Well done lads!

[@CARLIN4737]

Brave men. I salute you.

[@readie1000]

Very moving footage, great appliances

[@patrickcannell2258]

Dennis machines

[@krashd]

The fireman's pole is something we Brits can easily identify as being something we would have invented, but it was an American in the 1800's. Of all the greatest innovations of the past two hundred years the fireman's pole is a great one, seconds mean lives. I'm hoping to outdo it though with my "all on one floor" fire station plan. I know, I know, it may take longer to run from your bunk to the appliance, but I'm hoping to develop a horizontal pole that works as well as the vertical ones.

[@nzfirephotography]

Good response is so similar to London Burning.

[@CTFD13]

@a33fireman Hearing those bells going off in that order, makes me wish we had something like that here in the US. I would love to wake up to those bells.

[@Biffo1262]

CTFD13 The authorities eventually considered the bells too harsh and they were causing so much adrenaline to be pumped into the system over time that it was causing serious heart problems in firefighters. In the early '70 some medical institute or other tested firemen at London Road HQ Stn in Manchester and found that every time there was a shout their hearts did the equivalent of nine hours work and that was before they got to the fire. The bells were actually replaced prior to that with an ascending electronic two tone starting very soft and then building up to a peak. One very little known fact is, after a case brought by the Fire Brigades Union in 1973 where London Rd Sub O Frank Walsh was found collapsed and not responding in his dorm room after a one hell of a frantically busy night (I was on two of the make ups with him). Despite the efforts of Blue Watch they could not revive him. The FBU brought his case to court for his widow to claim under Industrial Injuries Benefit and won in a landmark case which still stands to this day As a result, firefighting is the only occupation in the UK where you can claim Industrial Injury Benefit for a heart attack!

[@joeplatt7688]

34 years ago, now

[@archieblake1967]

Thankfully the Fire Service have updated the trousers - they used to melt!

[@mehistaimsaar1323]

This was the problem with these old fire uniforms. The gloves melted in a fire, same with the leggings. These tunics were made of wool, which meant that if they got wet, they became quite heavy. They relied on their senses, which involved using the back of the hand, shuffling the feet to feel for any obstructions or holes and the ears, to feel just how close you are to a fire.

[@Biffo1262]

@@mehistaimsaar1323 Part of the problem with all the new kit is you cannot use your senses. In my time if your ear lobes blistered then it was getting far too hot. With all the new year covering 100% of your body you start to suffer heat syncope which is part of the reason GMCFRS lost their last guy. He seas so disoriented by heat syncope in BA that he got lost on his way out, collapsed and ran out of air. His BA partner was suffering too but he managed to get out by sheer good fortune. We first recognised this potential problem as BA Instructors when we were issued with flash hoods and fireproof gloves. It seems no-one was listening to us.

[@mehistaimsaar1323]

@@Biffo1262 gotta agree with you. With the modern kit, you lose some senses. Can't really feel whether you are too close or not.

[@elwolf8536]

Apparently wool is just as good as nomex

[@Channel51_LA]

Reminds me of the opening if the first episode of Emergency!.

[@mortgagewizard40]

when i first watched this on here i was convinced that the Station officer was phil Daniels

[@machwebtv]

Do you have the the full version of the documentry

[@Biffo1262]

Ah the the early morning leg trembler. I used to have to press down on my right knee to stop my leg trembling on the accelerator. I thought I was on my own with this but after recent discussions with other retired members I found it was a very common thing. I'm surprised they had no Minuteman resuscitator and had to use a Brooke Airway. You work hard and think you've cracked only to find the Isocyanates have done their deadly work.

[@fruitnoodles5141]

It seems both resuscitation equipment mentioned are quite old why wasn't the LFB replacing them with better equipment?

[@ashleyhoward8926]

It's caused by too may lat enight knee tremblers.

[@vingebil]

wow, were have you got this video from? great, sad he didn`t made it.

[@deadwaves]

is this on video or dvd? id really love to see the full version!

[@Gibraltar999]

The original is shouts

[@TheINNOVATIONS2012]

Agree we have the best sad for our loss