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This is a 1970’s era, color movie discussing problems fire departments have with high rise buildings. It opens with a massive high-rise tower with a ladder next to it and was produced with the assistance of the National Fire Protection Association and Fire Prevention through Films. Producer is Julian Olansky and the New Haven Fire Department in New Haven, Connecticut. Firemen fight a fire with a large hose, 00:51. A stack effect, animated graphic is shown, 1:00. BNO Building is shown, 1:03. A building with smoke billowing out of its windows, 1:21. A water-craft helicopter is shown; 1:25. Ladies calmly evacuate a building using the stairs, 1:34. Man is locked in the building, 1:47. A large industrial air conditioner, 2:11. Automatic fire dampers, 2:15. Venting grate for the building, 2:26. People are trapped in building with black smoke coming out, they are sitting on the open window ledge, 2:34. Stack effect/chimney effect graphic is shown again, 2:43. Animated graphics displaying mail chutes, elevator shafts and utility shafts are shown, 2:54. Other animated graphics discuss smoke and outside temperature, 3:00. Firemen inspect window fittings, 3:20. Fireman carries someone outside, 3:25. Firemen fight an intense blaze, 3:46. Fire hazards are shown in basements; holes in walls, etc, 4:15. Fireman opens a hydrant, 4:30. Massive blaze burning, 4:36. Man sprays on installation, 4:44. Workmen inadvertently remove installation from pipes, 5:04. Firemen inspect the furnishings of an office, 5:30. Décor of the building is shown, 5:45. Firemen use an elevator, 6:09. People stuck in elevator, 6:32. Elevators inspect smoke proof towels, 7:00. Women evacuate the building, 7:50. Automatic sprinklers, 8:14. Building communications center, 8:45. Fire alarm is pulled and the building is evacuated, 9:10. Ventilators are shown to show safety measures, 9:55. Keys are used to operate the elevator, 10:35. Backup electrical system is shown, 10:46. Elevator detection system graphic, 11:12. Internal communications, in stairways and elevators, 11:40. Décor and rugs are inspected, 12:15. Inspections continue in the basement, 12:35. Fireman train building management and staff about fire safety, 13:09. A nurse is shown sitting at a desk, 13:52. Automatic sprinkler, 14:22. Aerial view of burning building and women falling out of window 14:40. Women falls out of window, 15:20. Francis J. Sweeney, fire Chief the Knights of Columbus in New Haven, Connecticut. Thanks to Mr. Robert T. Palmer, North Memorial Hospital, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Thanks to Jewish Community Senior Housing, Tower 1, New Haven, Connecticut and Yale University, Kline Biology Towers. Thanks to John Bessemer, Bernard Entman, Edmund Sterniak, Ernest Juillerat, The Hamden Fire Department, Th West Haven Fire Department, Miami Fire Department, the state of California Department of Education Fire Service Training, WWL-TV 4, New Orleans, Louisiana. Production done by Nathaniel Whittemore, Lawrence Weisberg, Sandra G. Stinson, William Nichols, Robert Gargone, David MacDonald.
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