Agree, very tight quarters!!!!!

But the fdny firehouses are very long sometimes

Did you really stopwatch it?

Rural Ram they started doing it a little while ago probably around the 2010-2012 time period if i had to guess

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.

A big british one does!

They need to get pure LED lights. The lights you're talking about look like they were rotators converted into part LED or strobes

@@jrftworth i was talking about LED or rotary in general but it looks that way thanks

Dont care if drivers play stupid in there cars then cant even see the su n

It's all LED besides rotators on the end of each side

The tones and automated voice come in when the dispatcher calls out the house (or a company in the house).

I was there as the tones went off, and was able to start taking video before they stopped.

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."

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.

The Rastas call it Jah Dit (dee) Speak it God, it happens

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

Same thing happens when I was working at McDonald’s. Every time someone says “we’re dead” or “we’re slow” and a minute later we get slammed!

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)

@@jamesscott2894 I did not think about the remote lol ! Thanks a lot for the answer

In some videos, you'll see the engine and truck leave, and the battalion chief will close the doors on his way out.

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.

Drive through bays?

@@owensweetland342 Instead of backing the vehicles in, there would be doors at the back so the trucks travel forward to their position.

Luke Smith yes

Yes

I was kind of surprised that they didn't have a remote. Then again, if it is like ours, it only works when it wants to.

Many older houses, when they get emptied out, there’s no one there to close the door. Unless they have a “houseman”.

We run code to a CO alarm, never know if it's an active gas leak, need to get there fast.

Mark, calm down and let "real" firefighters due there job.

Better safe than sorry would you rather then go cold

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...

Pierce for sure

Dakota Hoes What makes you say that?? What do you like better about pierce?

Randomized literally Everything. They look better They are more reliable. And they feel better

Pierce is the Cadillac of the industry but Seagrave is the powerhouse.

House watch

@@FL92002 thank you for the quick response

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.

Usually there’s a lt in the fire house or a side door someone can go in and open the gate

@@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.

They open the door

The vector lightbars, like on the engine, are LED

Maybe when Deblasio decides to spend some money...

FDNY has completed studies that confirm a rotating light provides better intersection coverage then your "modern" LED flashing light.

Rotary lights are better for intersections

Not for heavy urban areas. Rotating lights are better every time

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.

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!

Both trucks are equipped with electronic sirens; the Federal eQ2B, the electronic version of the old Federal Q2B fan siren.

@@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.

Both of these trucks do not have Q2Bs. There is one truck in this department with a Q2B though.

the FDNY has done it that way for a very long time and im pretty sure they plan to keep it that way for years to come

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.

John Llamas just seems like a really old and outdated way of doing it.

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.

American Outdoorsman_1 we still have watchrooms in the UK, just not manned permanently. It’s where the key box is, the teleprinter, computer etc is.

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