Gives me chills watching my dad drive up in the red dodge shadow. He was a volunteer in the Endwell Fire Dept for decades. Hearing Engine 8 pull up also brings back memories. You could here her miles around town.
I miss hearing the old Detroit’s. I ran with a volunteer company just outside Scranton Pa from 1999-2012, when I started they had a 76 ward Lagrange as first due and that thing sang going down the road. Also a 74 Seagrave as well up until we got the new engine in 2003/04. The Ward was a phenomenal pumper as well. Thank you for sharing.
Love the old machines...back when kicking your shows off in the street and lining the streets with volunteers were a normal sight in the community. How times have changed
Some places still do that. Many rural VFDs have some members respond directly to calls from their house with their gear in the back of their POV, ready to go as soon as they arrive. It might not be as common now, but it still happens.
Brings back memories. I was a firefighter in my home town in Massachusetts. It was a full time position, and I can tell you, being on the roof of a house, looking down a chimney at a fire, is like looking into the jaws of hell. I dropped a weighted chain down into the fire, gave the chain a spin, and knocked the fire down into the fireplace, where other guys were waiting to put it out. No extra deamage to the chimney from the use of cold water, and very little mess in the living room from ash and smoke because because the other firefighters had taken measures to prevent it.
Having been a wacker in New York and PA around the time this video was shot it brings back a lot of memories. By the accents I knew what part of New York it was long before going to the web page. Thank you for sharing. Loved the vollies riding up with light bars wider than the cars they were in. Enough Officers arrived to get a truck out on their own.
When I first started in the fire service we had all lafrance. 72 snorkel,77 engine,84 engine with a turbo.loved riding those rigs.they were true work horses.
We had a chimney fire when I was in high school. The FD did a great job putting it down. What was funny later was the fact that they were due for training on chimney fires that coming weekend. Ours was the first one they had to put out.. without formal training.
Oh yea great sounding trucks. I volunteered from '91 to '06. Our dept. had the first diesel in the county. '78 Oren w/ 8v92, also a '87 Grumman w/ 8v92. Cut my teeth on the '78 and hated to see it retired.
Yeah, they surely aren't built like that anymore. But it is amazing that they are built starting with just 2 rails on one end of the line, and driven out the other end with the cab attached. Then sent to another facility for the apparatus section.
@@robertmiller2626 Yes sir it is amazing i have went through a mafg. company and was just amazed they was building our new fire engine back in 1978 , i love the old school engines and ladders
Definitely early to mid 90s. A mix of short mid length and full length bunker coats. When I was working for South Portland Maine on an Engine and Ladder company and volunteering with the next town over ( Cape Elizabeth) we had allot of chimney fire's. First due engine to the fire, second due take the hydrant and lay in to first engine( establish water supply) ladder to the best spot for laddering or support . usually behind first engine. Firefighters engaged in foreground ops have airpacks and hand tools. Hand line to the front door. Second line to the roof. Ladder crew use best spot away from the chimney to ladder roof and sound it for safety with an axe and maybe bring the roof ladder for support all the way to the chimney. With tools ( weighted chain and fire hose, axe , pikepole ) one crew inside to the fire place or wood stove with hose, tarp, 2.5 gallon fire extinguisher, bucket and small fire place shovel) one crew to the upstairs and a attic to look for break through and extension of fire out side of the chimney. All goes well back at the fire house under two hours. 30 years and a eventful career I do miss the simple things.
The thing I miss so much when it came to the old ALF's was being able to ride the back step or being able to stand up in front of the jump seat. Jr's always in the jump seat, black coats/helmets on the back step or standing up.
Wow!!!!! Talk about bringing back old memories to a 80’s kid. Lol. The ole ford Tempo, the grand am man I’d love to have that grand Am now in that shape. This is the America I love.
Great vid. When I was a kid in the 60s there was a chimney fire at least once a week. God unlike this one you could see them from about a mile away thick black/grey smoke. The District pumper 3 would show up. It was stationed about 3 miles away. One good blast on the federal and let the engine do the rest. 3 man pumpers with no officer. Whom ever was senior called the shots. 4 halls each with 1 3 man pump. If they needed help the city was close by and they would send their 57 ALF open cap ladder (litesiren on the nose) and the 53 ALS open cap pumper. They also ran the rescue but it was donated by the Kinsmen so that's what was written on the rig.
I remember my time as a ff with this type of apparatus in central nj. We rode a 1977 Sanford engine, a 1986 3D engine, and a 1991 Simon duplex 85ft snorkel. Incredible times and memories from 1993 to 2015. Riding the side running board with 6 or 7 guys every call.
@@michaelpatanella - My first thought was Slackwood. I knew some Lawrence FF's but I honestly can't remember which stations they were out of. I joined Princeton in 2002 right out of highschool but no longer there.
I remember getting ready for work one morning and in the bathroom could see the neighbors house behind me and their chimney looked like a Roman candle going off. Shooting balls of flames 30 ft above the chimney! Called the fire dept and when they got there is was already out but I'm sure they still had to inspect the house/chimney for damage control like they are doing here.
The first engine and truck are Century series, manufactured in the 80's. 2nd engine is 1000 series American LaFrances, manufactured in the 70's. The Detroits sure do purr. So this tape is probably early 80's.
I just had to have a chuckle about the siren being used on one of the appliances. It wasn't like there would be any traffic to get out of the way in that town.All respect to the volunteer fire fighters though all the same.
Did ya see the number of vehicles on the street? Wrong turns, the "oops...i'm in wrong place", K-turns among the apparatus? Volunteer or paid -- doesn't matter! Not seen here, but on-lookers, kids, COPS (JK 🚔)!!!! A TOOT of the siren isn't necessarily a bad idea!
@@GMan-yv8cb Yes I could see the vehicles and you could count them with one hand basically. I am referring to the siren that was in the distance, not in the street where this very minor fire was.A siren is for maintaining a reasonable movement through traffic, the onlookers were at the destination, not en route, just saying.
@ Brian Sloth - No probs, bud. Craziest thing, earlier today, for some bizarre reason, [ I think an engine passed me heading into a residential neighborhood] AND having some history driving both apparatus and band-aid boxes 😅 ] got me thinking about just this issue (sirens/no traffic /etc) and I guess more than anything, I was thinking of what a whole bunch of years does to your perspective. Young- FIRE! SIREN! FAST! Now: LOOK OUT, I'M COMING THROUGH! IDIOT CIVILIANS! WORK SMARTER-NOT HARDER! Hang in there, Bro!
Classic ALF's and Classic Mack's are mirrors of the very auto industry in our country. Up until the early 1980's, these fire engines were as much style as they were function and they were built to last. Nowadays everything is plastic, cookie-cutter junk designed to give you 15 years if you're fortunate.
It's a small town, the volunteer fire department usually sends all of their regular trucks to every callout. And if you look more closely you'll see this video was from 1993.
So thats how fire fighters back in the days did it! They all show up in there personal cars to a fire and wait till the fire truck to show up with equipment! Wow this ought to be the only fire fighting video that needs to be part of there training cause reality go this never happens this way. How they come to a call in delay time after the EMS and police shows up but the first guy on the call has to be the camera crew
