VHS Training Tape I Digitized showing what it takes to become a FDNY Firefighter. Video Follows along with the probationary class of 1993 No Copywrite intended video was digitized for preservation purposes.
Those long coats and 3/4 boots went away just a year later. Makes you wonder how many more cases of heat-related illness there were when they started putting these guys into the new turnout gear. It keeps steam off of you, but you'll cook like a potato inside of it.
At 2:08, Kenny DeFranco L-132, son of the respected and famed Danny DeFranco UFA trustee. Kenny was a great young man and a great Fireman...his father would be proud of him. I am and had the pleasure of working with him on St Johns Pl ! :)
Did I hear the commentator say twice already the word military? That's funny because he said in the beginning no military experience could help anyone. Yet this is done in a military fashion during this video.
All City Fire is a para military format. In Pittsburgh all city fire fighters are formerly military.. im sure there's an exception to this rule but I've yet to see it. Mostly marines are PBF
