FDNY Bronx Dispatch Operations - vintage FDNY video

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15 жыл бұрын

I recorded this off of public access tv about 13 years ago. I'm sure I'll eat shit for posting it, but I hope you enjoy. This video is copyrighted by the FDNY, recorded and produced by the Audio/Video unit of the New York City Fire Department.
This video is a tribute to some of the great Bronx dispatchers, which are featured here, including Borough Supervisor John Cashin, Supervising Dispatcher Dennis O'Connell (RIP DOC), Ritchie Pressler, now a supervisor in Manhattan, Mark Mianulli (RIP, Mark), Brendan Keeney, Bill Treanor, Vin Allegro, and of course, the Beef.
FDTV was a show on NYC public access, Cablevision, during the mid 1990s, which was a show "for the members, by the members" that offered good training videos and was shown in many firehouses.

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@chiefread 5 жыл бұрын

Hard to find a better dispatching voice than Mark Mianulli (281): intonation, clarity, dictation, and consummate professional.

@joehyundaitech7961 5 жыл бұрын

mark and I were in the same engine company together in woodbury ny co3 he will never be forgotten . mark and the beef were the 2 best ever hands down

@michaelswinehart2788 2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for this video. I remember the " back in the day " videos like this one. My how things have changed !! Again, thank you. 👍🏻

@glennbrink2864 8 жыл бұрын

sure beats the heck out of 911 operators ! he cool and very calm and got all the facts needed in a timely fashion !

@AMTK41 15 жыл бұрын

No Pre-Release in those days, And the operation still worked, Amazing Huh! & The Old Keyboards, DOC-Mark-Beefy, Great Stuff.

@Dad-979 2 жыл бұрын

I seen that other one on the backside just last month. Thank you for bringing the tires back to get rotated.

@kplax30 3 жыл бұрын

Tree tree oh at the end... a legend

@bronxfireradio 14 жыл бұрын

Also, Beef once told me that his alarm receipt appearance in this video was completely staged - further evidenced by the fact that he's on the ERS phone and asking the caller for their phone number...

@gregorybentley5707 Жыл бұрын

Thanks so much for posting and preserving this.

@medickdd 15 жыл бұрын

The internet is a wonderful thing.

@miketr6225 5 жыл бұрын

Rest in peace Dennis

@Wouter112 15 жыл бұрын

Never mind.. he wasnt on the radio that day. I've heard him a couple weeks ago at a 3 alarm in Brooklyn.

@bxbuff 15 жыл бұрын

BTW...If Treanor's "fire" at Cablevison in the Bronx, if received in, say, 1972, in the middle of the day, would have been met with, "Cablevision, eh?" Big fire?" And you're the only one who sees it, right?" SLAM!

@teddysgunshop2318 6 жыл бұрын

Great man old school

@re27z 15 жыл бұрын

Totally awesome, this is how I remember the Bronx CO, my brother and I were sometime visitors back in the 70's and 80's, anyone remember Ziggy feundlic (dont know if I got the spelling correct, Sorry) or Sol Elbaum? Heard the Office has gotten a major upgrade into the 21st century, would love to pay a visit. Safe tour to all.....

@bxbuff 15 жыл бұрын

It says a lot about the "leadership" of communications that the same computer equipment used in the 1970s was still being used in 1995.

@bronxfireradio 15 жыл бұрын

No, that's Mark Mianulli, dispatcher 281. he was working in the X on 9/11.

@R1SmokeEater 15 жыл бұрын

Excellent !!

@JohnpaulDejoria666 5 жыл бұрын

The Beef!!!!

@bronxfireradio 14 жыл бұрын

Anyone else notice the lousy editing job, causing Cashin to repeat himself at the beginning of the video?

@robertbroughton1443 Жыл бұрын

Shows like this are interesting. This is real reality.

@ahnbra 9 жыл бұрын

Why do FDN dispatchers have radio ID #'s hat they must say? The only dispatchers in the St. Paul, Minnesota (Twin Cities) Metro Area that I know that use radio ID #'s is our Medical system (MRCC). This is the radio system that all the ambulances use to advise a central dispatch who advises the various Emergency Rooms of an Ambulance heading to them.

@HobbyOrganist 7 жыл бұрын

Since the FDNY is a publicly funded taxpayer entity in the city, the films etc produced by them are public domain, it's the same with the Library of Congress photos and documents, they are public records.

@Teewriter 14 жыл бұрын

He said he would alert the fire and the alarm went off.

@bxbuff 15 жыл бұрын

Re: "legendary" dispatchers...yes, those guys mentioned were perhaps "legendary," but those "legends" soon disappear when one leaves the Central Offices. Just ask Joe Higgins, Warren, Elbaum and a host of others who passed though the doors of "Club 1129" & 35 Empire Blvd. Once you're out, your out. You're yesterday's news. and it's the same way (even more so) with the Uniformed Force.

@bronxfireradio 15 жыл бұрын

I counted 68 cents and 2 good rubberbands once!