24 Hour Ride Along - Fort Worth Fire Station 2 

Thank you Eric keep up the good work I miss you kim Connor and Lauren your friend in Springfield Missouri kyle

That tone is uh... peculiar

As a wheelchair-dependent person myself I know the feeling of that poor guy with the dead chair batteries because I've had to actually call 911 for a similar situation.

Found my love for the fire service sitting outside of The Big House every Saturday night with my mom and dad in the early 2000s. We used to sit across the street in the bank lot and watch for an hour or 2 waiting for them to respond. My dad was a retired cop and new a couple ffs at 2s. Chief Tim Hatch came out one night and greeted us, asked us to come inside and check it out. Got to ride around the block in the officer seat of Truck 2 while my dad rode backwards behind me. Dad said he instantly regretted it when we made the right and then left out of the station. Core memory that sent me on my way to the career I have now.

Janno seems to very knowledgeable of the city, station and Fd. Except way to educate the public as to what really happens within a Fd. Thank you Eric!🇺🇸

Keep it up Eric! These videos are awesome. Great job capturing the history of the house and crew dynamics.

These videos are great. Love the ride alongs and seeing different departments

Glad to see even this busy station is running basically nothing but medicals, smells and bells

Amazing video! Great to see what the Fort Worth Fire Department does! Thanks for your spectacular videos!

Love the Tone out! Red Alert Warning from Star Trek! Anyway, AWESOME VIDEO! Loved every second of it. Glad you did not Have to slide the pole while half asleep! We had a guy visit our firehouse YEARS ago, early to mid 90’s, was not used to sliding the pole and tried in the middle of the night half asleep. He was fine, just did not grip the pole right and wrap his legs the way he should have. He had a hard landing and ended up on his pride. AKA, butt. Please keep these AMAZING VIDEOS coming!!!!!

mann glad to see my city out there specially with the nice fleets they have !!

Another AWESOME video Eric!! Really have been enjoying these. They are a perfect length and you do a great job “interviewing” the member/s. Always feel like “I’m there.” Keep up the outstanding work! Thanks man

This video is probably one of the BEST I've ever seen.....great job guys !!!

Awesome man. You should hit up Dallas if you're still down there. Some great guys and a busy department

We also have the bomb squad at Las Vegas Fire and Rescue.

Doing there jobs taking care of business let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated great job great catches as usual still going strong great looking tower very impressed way to go you guys rock thanks ! Joe

Try Oklahoma City! Would love to see that video.

I’m really surprised they haven’t updated the dorms with sleeping pods yet like so many other departments have considering the mixed company now. They need to find a firefighter thats a history buff and get them to go through that attic and go through and archive all that history.

Much respect to those men. Thanks for the video.

Beautiful fire station

Historical fire stations are so cool! Great video!

Incredible!! Amazing keep these videos coming!! You are off the charts!!

As a fellow firefighter I really appreciate your videos. They give a lot of insight to departments around the nation. Coming from a small town with not much action most days, it can intensify pretty quickly. It’s nice to see other stations working! Keep ‘em coming

It’s been a while since I’ve been in Fort Worth, but I used to always try to detour to downtown and go by Station 2 as it is just an awesome building. Thanks for the video!!

That’s looks like a fun station to be assigned to. But those alerting tones…ugh…

It would be awesome to see Houston fire Station 51 or 68s

Thank you so very much for your service as a Firefighter. Your hard work and dedication is outstanding. May God always keep you safe and healthy where ever you go

Awesome station and crew. They need some less abrasive tones to wake up to along with some night adapted lighting. Plenty of research shows the detriment of startling alerts. Cant wait for the next episode!

Love the videos! Very interesting to see how other departments run day to day as well as the history and traditions

Wow! Wish I knew you were down here!!! North Texas is home for me....Instant my FR career as a volunteer in Roanoke Texas.

Great video! I like the color of FWFD rigs.

The game at the end for kitchen duties is funny

Gotta give Eric credit out here making these videos and pio videos by the way eric still waiting on that pio10 new car 😉

Another great video!!

Hey buddy you’ve probably already thought of or planned it but a Dallas FD visit would be awesome as well.🧑‍🚒🇺🇸

I love that architecture. Too bad the neighboring buildings are so cookie cutter.

Great video Eric!!!!

great video Eric

When will the next Fort Worth video be posted?

Rescue 2 responded to all three of my downtown accidents. People if you have cataracts get them removed! I haven't had any accidents since I did!

Love the videos. Keep them coming I can watch for hours

Was this filmed on a Sunday? There seems to be a lack of traffic.

interesting station for sure. Pretty average size to what we're used to. Thus e.g. I live in a village of 10,000 inhabitants and the volunteer FD has 10 vehicles 5 containers and 3 trailers. Staffed stations in the cities usually come with 20+ vehicles. Largest in state was just upgraded from 47 to 55 bays. One thing which I think looks really odd is the common room at 1:10 in the video, with the beds scattered throughout the room Love the color scheme on the apparatus!

Awesome video series, keep up the great work Eric!

I wonder if someone at that particular station is a Star Trek fan because that alarm tone is very distinctly the Star Trek Red Alert sound.

This is awesome keep up the ride alongs. Love seeing the different departments and houses nation wide!

When are you going to Detroit or Highland Park?

Sweet

Interesting to hear Jano speaking in a heavy Pittsburghese accent in Fort Worth, TX!

Eric awesome content! I know that this venture comes second to work at SM but have you considered heading to the East coast? There’s lots of hard charging northeast departments that I’m sure would love to have you

Lived in Fort Worth my whole life (most across from FWFD station 26) and passed by station 2 hundreds, if not thousands of times. So very neat! Thanks for the ride along.

Wish you could hit up McKinney station 1

Amazing Eric!

Excellent job let's stop and honor and appreciate the paramedics and firemen who proudly serve us your service and time and efforts are deeply appreciated thanks great job great catches as usual still going strong way to go great looking tower very impressed you guys rock thanks ! Joe

Had the pleasure of having Brad as an instructor at TEEX last year. What a wealth of knowledge and incredible asset to the FWFD!

Another couple tidbits; the gym area use to be the old truck shop, and if you go to the back parking lot near the entrance gate you can see metal squares in the ground that use to hold the poles for the safety nets for the old drill tower.

Great video. Hope you get to Austin some day.

Ride along Suggestion Harvey IL

You Should Ride Along with Escambia County Fire Rescue in Florida. ride with Ladder 12 and you will get an incredible experience

Awesome video! great quality.

You should come up to the Northeast if you get a chance Eric

awesome bell since 1883.nice fire station (forth worth fire station)

I'm not sure if I said it yet, but if you are ever down in Germany, in Friedrichshafen, you can stop by hahaha

Keep up the good work!! Love the videos! Let me know if your ever in California and maybe you can swing by my department !

Just interested, is what's the call tempo in american firestations? Does it differ greatly or how is it?

Love your videos man! Keep up the great work!

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The slowed down yelp sirens are somewhat nice but also scary its crazy

Good video. Surprised, the chief didn't say anything.

29:08 best put that phone on the desk! Could possibly catch fire sir D:

Another amazing video! Its awesome to see you in Texas! In my territory 😆 Take care!

Nineteen 70s moustaches, Blue Oyster bar.

very good

Wow someone should digitise those historical documents.

Good stuff!

You should do Dallas forth worth airport fire station and training!

Let’s gooo! Love these!!

❤ awesome ❤

Thanks for the upload buddy! Love your channel and content and you should do Oklahoma City FD if you ever get the chance!🇺🇸🧑‍🚒❤️⭐️🎉

pretty cool vid and i didn’t know the correlation of towers

You work at South Metro as well? or am I wrong

Bummer! Ft. Worth Fire looks like a spiffy dept. Apparatus that have Q2bs but appears to never use their Q2bs. lol ! (bty, superb podcasts. Subbed and thanks!

Can we real quick talk about the white car at 2:49. Like why'd you even think about moving? You can hear the fire truck, you can see the fire truck... WHY MOVE?

Nice video Eric!

Panther City. Never knew that. Good history fact.

Thank you for your service, and I love if I may, how the house alarm or the station alarm sounds like something from star wars. Sorry not trying to make fun of a video that's supposed to be serious, but I couldn't help but notice that lol

Come on down to STLFD house 2 not as nice a this house two but you definitely eating good. No sleep guaranteed run all day and night my record is 27 runs pure joy

I love this and as a Retired So Cal Firefighter ... So many great memories of the camaraderie and traditions for "who is in the tank" for Dishes. I can't stop laughing at "Brad" the cook! love that guy ..everyone has a Brad

Love it as always....only hoping you got BBQ at Hard Eight or Cooper's while there in Ft. Worth!

33 years in the fire service and we had a Claxton bell that was ruff on the heart ! Before retired they changed the tones a much more Easier and light sound to let you know you had a call

Love that 70's stache

Great video! Terrible tones! Good lord.....I'd have a heart attack every time they go off at night.

The tone....wait to hear Captain....enemy warship cloaking in front of us😂

Hey I have a question isn’t the truck with the bucket on the end called a tower truck?

Ayeee this , my hometown lets gooo. My pops just retired from FWFD love y'all

I am surprised that they haven't had to enlarge the doors as the Trucks are so much bigger now.

A ride along with Carmel Indians Station 44 would be cool or one of my local Fire Departments

Thanks for your video Eric. After 25 years on the FWFD and maybe 10 shifts spent at station 2 i still learned a few things.

You think with today’s technology they modify the siren, so it’s on the steering wheel with two buttons so much easier

This is really cool to see. I am in Fort Worth Tx!