Man, ive been a volly for 10 years and i still take for granted how big our barns are. Every time i see a vid like this or visit a buddy at their house in the city im always blown away by how tight everything is
My few years as a FF/EMT were spent in houses large enough to have a full-sized basketball court (back in the 80s & 90s)! Every time I watch one of these videos of these guys (gender-neutral) pulling two full-sized pieces of equipment out of a tiny bay and through a little door, I am blown away. Those guys not only know how to put a fire out, but they also have a lot of big-time engineering skills! Here, it would take four engineering firms six months to figure out which rig to put where and what to do on such-a-such call, these guys just do it. If these are the videos you post, I will subscribe. I may be old, but I still pine for the days of my youth. And I miss the job so much.
Great video again! thanks. I grew up not far from that house , and as a kid I remember when ladder 50 was a tiller. I still can't figure how they get those rigs into that little house! Stay safe!
I noticed both rigs had a blue light on the back, when did FDNY go back to putting multiple color lights on the rigs. For the longest time they were using red only no blue allowed. Makes me glad the Vol. Department I'm on still runs red and blue. Dual colors definitely get noticed better and respected better than one solo color.
New York changed the laws to allow any authorized emergency vehicle to run blue to the rear. Blue forward is still restricted to rural fire service “courtesy” lights. NYPD runs a TON of blue to the rear including blue led message boards on the V lightbars.
@ 0:50 I like the combo of the rotary lights and the led lights on the ladder great video. I’m not sure what’s best as far as being seen in intersections is concerned. Rotary or led lights.
Man that's a tight fit. Thought the empty spot was for a Chief. Now I see the reason. I'm guessing they do not have drive through bays, so backing the ladder in can be interesting. Probably when this station was built, the vehicles were a different size and may have been easier to shoe horn into place.
when a lot of the stations were built they had horses pulling steamers. I worked at Eng. 57 in Philly single Eng. house the station opened Sept. 22nd 1913. with horses. I have an old picture had 2 small doors round tops when they motorized they put in a single door. when I got there in 1970 still had the same door with an opener. The 1964 Ward La France just about fit through . On eather side of the door was a granite rounded stone that stuck out about 4in. . We had a yellow line on the pavement to put the rear tire on to back in . Driver had to pull the mirror in to not hit the wall backing in. 57 s got new station in 1976.
Back again,,,Philly guy what is really cool is before we moved to New station 1976. B Plt. but ladder up through the 2nd floor ceiling.that were 10 ft. high there was a piece of plywood over a hole. no pull down stair. and found the original LOG Book from the 1st day they opened. Sept. 1913 a lot of cool stuff in the book Philly was just buying Electric Tractors to pull the steamers. getting rid of the horses. the electric motor's were at the rear wheels. Batterys had a 15 hr charge. could go 15 MPH cut responce time in half.
I had just been talking to the firefighter in the house watch about how it had been a quiet day and that the house was due for a run. Not two minutes later, the tones went off for this run, and I said "Just like that" as you could hear. Then he jokingly said "See, you spoke it into existence bro.....you gotta go." Obviously he didn't mean it in a rude or malicious way.
FL92002 I have been a paramedic for 12 years. Please remember never say ever is quite, slow, boring, being hungry or needing to go to the restroom. It is at those time when💩 will hit the fan and everyone will label you as a black cloud ( in a joking matter). Great video. I love and respect my fellow first responder in New York. Thank you for the video
I noticed on several videos, the ladder always wait for one guy to come up. I believe he closed down the sliding door on this video. Isn't there anyobody left in the fire station to close it down ? I am trying to understand
If both companies are going to the alarm, then there's no spare guy just hanging out to close the door. Everyone is on either the Engine or the Ladder so one of the two has to stop and have a guy hit the door close button. (Though to me it would make more sense to invest a few bucks in a remote door close system with the clickers in the cab... Though the truck would still have to stop for a moment to ensure thr doors go down, at least they wouldn't have to have a guy be out and run back to the truck... but hey even my own department has a few stations with only the "manual door closer" like this, and I myself have had to turnout, wait for the Engine to pull out, close the garage door and run back like this, so I'm def a fan of investing those few bucks into the remotes lol)
Great video and it still shows that some of FDNY units are still in the old days with non electronic sirens, still using the old fan type. They would be fine for a back up, but the inconsistant audio of a fan siren confuses traffic, unlike the modern electronic ones that are designed to be more directional. Just a view, from an old ex paramedic, not a criticism.
It is called a Federal , short for Federal Signal siren. You are supposed to use both the Federal and electronic siren and change the siren frequency 200' before an intersection, per EVOC standards. I hope they never take the Federal off apparatus, it is a signature of fire trucks!
@@galexander9857 Fair enough but still not very effective. The human ear has no idea which direction this type of siren is coming from, especially in windy conditions, which is why you never hear of them in other countries.
Ladder 50 is what they call a "SOC Support Ladder" (SOC = "Special Operations Command") and when they get a heavy job somewhere (building collapse, explosion, etc), L. 50 is supposed to take that other truck with them. Don't ask me what they do when they get there. The "SSL" on the back of that other truck is for "SOC Support Ladder."
man, that station needs a remodel. the bay door is way too narrow to be safe. they even appear to have a gated side driveway. if the side isn't theirs, they need to buy it. with a remodel they could add a third floor and remove the first floor offices and make it a corner desk. this way there's no need to struggle to fit inside, also wouldn't hurt to upgrade the ladder to a tiller. tillers turn better on many smaller and tight streets.
In NYC, it's different. The first due units are very fast, never need long. The 2nd due and 3rd due units are also kinda speedy. The rest is not needed to speed at about 50 mp/h around the city, as mostly there is always a unit there already. But if let's say this House is first due to a fire as said before, they would be out in about a minute. For Medical emergencies, they don't even get on any gear correctly, sit into the engine and roll. And for fire alarms: Sometimes the caller informs the 911 dispatcher that the alarm in the building or residence is false. So they don't hurry at all, they do respond, but why hurry if you have Infos it's false. As said, there is always a first due unit, which is there and where the seconds count rule applies.
I would imagine if you're trapped somewhere suffocating to death on Carbon Monoxide, you wouldn't want your rescuers sitting in traffic hitting their third red light in a row, having to wait for the green before they can get to you...
UK Emergency Responder, stay in your lane. Remember you are talking about Americans! Any time you wanna see a real fire dept, send me a message and I will take you on a special trip to Los Angeles to probably the busiest FD in the nation.
They’re going to keep that going until the wheels fall off. Chicago Fire Department also have watch rooms at their stations. My department had the watch room all the way up until 1994 and all the dispatch was turned over to the newly built 911 center.
You don’t, they get a run you basically have to leave. Sometimes you could wait til they get back or you could just move on and go to the next thing you gonna be doing, if you talking about the firefighters they reopen the doors.
@@ArmEConDoesMinecraft No, I was talking about the guy doing the filming, maybe he isnt a firefighter anyway, just taking movies, thanks for the reply anyway.
I understand that they have a new product on the market, called "keys," and with the help of a "Locksmith," one can actually access a closed door. That particular house has a parking lot next door (with the fence in front) where they park their cars. there's a small entrance door in that lot with a push-button-type of lock which one enters with a numeric code of some type.
