@@PibrochPonder and remember on station...could be tough especially when tied to a short extension ladder being blasted with a hose reel...different times...
I was a Police Officer 1986-2016, the Fire Brigade were the emergency service that you could always trust to get the job done. Thank you sir. Hope you found your spectacles.
I was Blue Watch, Delta 2, Brierley Hill West Midlands. 1976 to 1978 then moved to NSW and rejoined there. So many memories watching this....great days and great friends made for life.
My uncle worked at Delta 1 Oldbury, Delta 8 west Bromwich and Echo 9 Wednesbury when I was a kid in the 80s/90's. He then became Sub officer and moved over to Highgate in Birmingham. No longer with us, but remember him fondly.
@@TheWeepingDalek Because the fire service is a semi disciplined organisation not a commercial business. The rank to role was fine as it was now you have two separate pay grades and ranks with same rank markings. All very confusing and makes for far too many white hats at fires. All this was dreamt up by some overpaid commercial company employed to 'professionalise' the fire service and made a right balls up of it.
@@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361I don't think he's wrong quite honestly and there is certainly no call for your comment. He was just stating things ashe sees it.
Doesn't take much to cause a lot of smoke. Went on a single story house with thick black smoke banked right to the floor. The home owner came home from a days work to find this. Turned out there was no fire. She had left the stove on low with a frying pan on that burner. In that frying pan she had left the all plastic spatula that she used that morning. That 1 spatula created enough smoke to fill the entry house with smoke so thick I could not see my hand in front of my face. Incredible really. After discovering this we just PPV the structure and called it a day.
wow when was this aired? this came as a recommended video but glad i watched it. love the fact its come from the fire fighters involved. no over the top narations or silly incidental music masking dialogue etc. not like documentaries today
Absolutely. Couldnt agree more. Wouldn't I like to meet the grade one plonka that decided plastering 'music' across everything end to end and have a word with him.
Remember turning out in the Dodges ..... they used to sway into the corners. Ours also had a cold start like a choke and use to over rev...sacred going through traffic lights
Knw quite a few firefighters through my lifesaving work with stjohn ambulance have been in some tricky situations bt nothing compared to what the fire brigade have to face risking their lives .nothing but respect for all of them.
The engine voice of Dodge fire engine remind me those truck had been used for goods lorries and the tankers but never used in fire service in Hong Kong while HKFSD wildly used Dennis on that time but also used Perkins engine, probably same engine had been used on Dodge?
It is ok to be scared of something. It only becomes a problem when you act on those fears. Know lots of firefighter who hate small spaces, hate heights but its no problem. You be in charge of yourself and never give into your fears or they will control you.
I have a strong suspicion that this documentary is what inspired "London's Burning". Someone probably felt that the day-to-day happenings at a fire station would be an excellent show. I mean, this is even Blue Watch that's being featured.
Funny how times change, what was considered “banter” is now bullying, what was a practical joke is now hazing. Even when this was filmed, the practice of mickey taking & jokes was under scrutiny, hence the down playing of it in the film. I think there was a probationary fire fighter that died around this time as a result of being tied to a ladder & being suspended over a water pool, the ladder fell in one end & he drowned. This era of the fire service was a tough one ! Everyone had highly flammable furniture & almost everyone smoked ! Terrible combination.
I thought the same thing! LOL. Wouldn't last a minute these days. Seems they mostly use a trashline. What I wonder is ....I never saw a single firefighter use gloves. Certainly they must have had them back then! Those were the days. Time to come out of the structure when your ears start to burn.
General purpose gloves were issued to everyone in my brigade, Greater Manchester. High pressure hose reels are by far the most used extinguishing tool. A high pressure hose reel can deal perfectly well with a single room fire, even if well alight and two hose reels deals with most domestic dwelling fires and car fires. The big advantage is their high pressure, 150psi and their ready use, always ready charged with water. Water is on the fire in seconds. You also only need pull of as much as you need, no kinks and easy to handle. It mystifies me why the USA doesn't use them to the same extent. The Dutch fire service has gone one better with larger diameter reels and fire suppressing chemicals. A ultra high pressure lance is now the common tool for house fires. It suppresses the fire after cutting a hole in even brick exterior walls. Fire is suppressed and cooled down very, quickly enabling a rapid and safe entry for BA teams. The down side is that management sem to think these innovations can replace firefighters and even reduce the number of appliances and stations which simply isn't the case. Quite frankly most brigades in the UK are dangerously under manned.
@@LindaFirefighter03Aye. Blistered ears was your badge of office back in those days of no flash hoods. The thing about flash hoods and Nomex gloves is that they resulted in quite serious burn injuries as the took away the feeling of the back of the hands and ear lobes blistering until it was too late. They have caused at least one death that I know of due to heat syncope. The body sweat simply cannot evaporate to cool you if none of your skin is exposed. It takes regular heat training to recognise the onset of heat exhaustion and if left too late it can be and has need fatal in my former brigade.
Hi messroomh6 You have an great collection of firefighter videos it's been so interesting to see all the difference videos Looking for a video that might have been one of your ones ? It was a video where a pump like a Bedford TK or Dennis had crashed and had to be rescued by a heavy rescue vehicle
@@messroomh6 No worries messroomh6 I just found it today it's definitely worth watch it's very interesting thanks for getting back to me I appreciate it ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-hHBe_jCKZCE.html
That Dennis has the code name brave 301/302 which is 5 of bravo 251 and bravo 252 the call signs for the plot applicationes for blackwall in London's burning
Chris Lates they were still fitted to Cleveland Fire Brigades engines in this period. They were deemed to be less frightening to animals than rwo-tone air horns.
Loving this documentary. I love seeing the older uniforms and equipment. I do wonder about that one driver with the really long hair and beard. I honestly would've thought grooming standards at the time were a little more severe.
Chris Whitbread Yea they were ........I stood buy there mid eighties he looked a right cock . Bit like David Seaman thought he looked great but in reality looked stupid .
At the time he joined which was probably pre 1974 there were no regulations about hair length. Those joining from '74 onwards were required to ' have a tidy haircut and the hair must not touch the collar'. Hence you has the older serving members exercising their 'long hair' rights. To be fair I saw a lot worse than that.
The stuff about the newbie down at the police station wouldn't happen now. There would be enquiries done, people suspended and sacked. Then people would have to talk to councillors ect. The same happened when I was in the Royal Navy. All the fun was taken out.
@Adrian Heath They aren't as effective and the sound doesn't carry like two tone AIR horns. Electronic sirens never were as effective and that goes for two tone electronic as well.
@@Biffo1262 what about the rumbler siren they are being installed on all police cars ambulances and fire trucks in the uk now now all thats left now is to install q sirens on the firetrucks
@Adrian Heath your americans sirens cause ear loss and there not affective we have changed what you think we still fight fires in rubber and wool we have a better fire crews in the uk than the us your helmets are inpracticl your rigs are to big the uniforms are asbestos and the visor on your helmets only protect your eyes when our uniform has curved helmets microfiber fire proof tuxs we have led lights our rigs are fast and skinny and our sirens are not loud
@@Zackislivid they were pretty good masks, you could have facial hair and the vision was great. The new ones had a better seal though and obviously didnt fog.
Along with " On the Run " originated in Victorian England, even before Horse Drawn Fire Engines when some Fire ladders were pushed by hand somebody would run ahead shouting to make way for the Firemen and " On the Run" started when Fire Engines were pulled by horses, the Fire Station floor would have a slight lift so that when the steam pump was ready to go with chocks applied to the wheels, the horses would be harnessed to the pump and when the chocks were removed the weight of the Fire Engine would move on its own , meaning the horses did not need to pull against a dead weight when they left the station, the fire engine was already "On the Run" still used today meaning that an appliance is ready to go
Long before telephones some cities employed Watchmen whose job was to patrol the most dangerous parts of the city for fire. All they has was a rattle or whistle and they would run to the fire station and shout fire, fire on the way. Hence turning out on a shout!
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What happens if an LFB fireman ram through cars and escape met police or hit them with the fire truck? Will armed response team be able to defeat them?
