This is my dad driving! Couldn't be more proud!

I rode with this company in August 1992. Lt. Bill McDaniel was in Charge. It was my 1st time in NYC and all i wanted to do was see as many Firetrucks as i possibly could. I didn't even take time to see the Statue of Liberty or Ellis Island. What an Awesome time i had.

That "yelp" button on the PA300 helped get some attention when needed

Wow, I drove Ladder 39 in the Bronx for 16 years and I never thought of video taping it . But this is some cool shit.

Actually worked there on a detail one 6X with Wind at the wheel many years ago . Truly best of the best ! God Bless , JW ! His name and talent lives forever.

I can't BELIEVE how light that traffic was! If they were doing a movie shoot, they couldn't get that traffic to be THAT light. It must have been a Sunday morning. And the fact that 3 almost beat the first-due truck in, L.7, says more about 7 than it does about the driving of 3.

Respect to the chauffeur for driving her like a boss. Only in NY, baby.

love how the driver has a smoke hangin from his lip!gotta love the FDNY!

That's Jimmy Wind. AKA "Windy" One of the best truck chauffeurs in the FDNY. RIP Brother. Miss u.

Now that guy is a true FDNY FF, Old school, enginner smoke while ya go... GReat vid!

RIP Capt Paddy Brown originally a lieutenant with Rescue 1 before Dennis Mojica was the lieutenant of Rescue 1 and him being assigned to Ladder 3 when he was promoted to captain and died on 9/11

Talk about a driver with balls of steel!

fireman is the best job the world thank you for all firemann hard work.

GREAT video... and one badass driver! i'll agree with the person who guessed he could fit an 8' truck through a 7.5' opening. way to go, guys. keep up the great work.

I prefer the continuous siren vs, the manual. I know it's NYC and sound travels but still.

Great vid, whoever the videographer was. Thanks for posting this vid. The Tower ladder that goes in front of ladder 3 has a Q! I thought that that wasn't allowed in FDNY, oh well, it sounded awesome. I have never heard a yelp used in FDNY. Great Vid.

God... that driver is a real BadAss!!!!❤ How cool he was with a cigarette in his mouth😎 Rush hour in New York is brutal 🫨🤯😎

bad ass driver, driving, smoking, and using the airhorn.

need more videos like this on youtube in HD.

Someone told me that it is because it's impossible to tell where an emergency vehicle is coming from with all the tall building. There are lots of echoes and stuff that makes long tone sirens ineffective. The shorter tones don't echo as much and therefore, you can hear where the thing is coming from.

WOW what a ride. I am a retired ladder chauffeur in the midwest and I still got excited on this run. I have only been retired 4 months and miss it.

There are only 2 vollie companies officially recognized by FDNY. They are both in Staten Island. Beside them, there is one vollie company in Brooklyn, 3 maybe 4 in Queens, and I think one up in the Bronx. These others are not dispatched by FDNY, as are the ones in S.I.

They are responding to a: Class 3 box 620 terminal 1, 425 E 25 ST. FDR Drive with 1st Ave for a AFA manual alarm in a public college, west building.

Wheelin and Dealin!!!!! Good job driver.

Great video! 🚒🚨

Hell yeah!! Now that's the way to drive. Hat's off to all of you FDNY firefighter's and all the other big city departments out there. I'm just glad I don't have to drive in all that traffic trying to get to a call.

Moves it like a Pro

fantastic driving

its amazing how they drive

It is the MDT alert for an update. Or in other words the lap top in the truck that communicates with the Alarm Room to update call information.

Driver smoking is classic!

Mean sounding air horn, I like it!

I have never seen the FDNY running they're sirens like this. Usually they use Manual

LOVE THIS VID DEFINATELY ***** i do have one question though what kind of siren is that?

I liked! Operative, not worse, than in Russia =)

very nice video!

awesome video nice job .

That "bell thing" is the alert tone of a mobile data terminal, indicating that a text message has been received relevant to the call to which the fire unit is EN ROUTE.

i own a pa300 for my pov in my fd...good to see someone eles useing them dam old things! haha!

awesome vid.

now that is some excellent truck driving...

God bless the men who died

having a cigarette in the firetruck, real classly....

great video love the driving. but i shure miss the federal q's in fdny

Awsome driver !

Furthermore i was a Lt. in Communications from the Nashville Tennessee Fire Department

Typical busy new yorker at 0:50

man, you really gotta be an aggressive driver in NYC traffic. Theyre just flyin past intersections and everything. Yes, 7 Truck had a Q running in this video. Gotta love the sweet sound of a Q.

Nice horns, Grovers?

that siren is the one we use in australia, mainly in new south wales

there's a siren switch on both sides, a pedal on the passenger side.

he drives amazing :D

Best response video on youtube.

The ringing is the computer giving updates from dispatch.The ring gets the officers attention over the siren.

Hey , it is the laptop , but, unfortunately, the mdt doesn't show any layout of the building ! Unless you have been on a run there or did BI there we have no clue of the layout of the apartments . The FDNY does not have GPS to guide us to the fire, we use a paper map or our head. They try to get as much info about the building as possible ,C.I.D.S. info, but there are over 900,000 buildings in NYC

Go guys go!! Also for who can't do this great job.

That Cigarette kicks ass

very nice wheelman.

GOD bless Firefighters around the World🚨🚒🚗🙏🏻❣️❣️❣️❣️

actually, firefighters who train and get certified to operate fire apparatus learn how and when to use other controls and functions of the apparatus.

It's probably the dispatch computer. They have that annoying ring as an alert for certain things, like emails and such. Probably updates for the run or something.

Ladder 3 & Battalion 6 are both at 108 East 13 Street. That's probably Batt.6's siren you hear in the background as the truck runs East on 14th Street.

he pass so close to some vehicule it's amazing !!!

NICE DRIVING!!!! WOW

Ok, first off, if the driver is a smoker, then dammit, let him smoke. There's nothing in the trucks that say you can't smoke in there. Smoking in an ambulance, well then that's just common sense. Besides, if you're a firefighter, especially the chauffer of a truck, in NY, chya, you would be stressed enough you want to smoke. Secondly, what was the call for? He looked disappointed when they got there. Keep up the good work guys. You're all heroes to the world =)

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Nah, NYC has limits on noise levels and Q's are too loud. The only trucks that have them take them off before sending the truck for service cause the service personnel have to remove them if they see them.

At 0:28 you can hear the dispatcher announce the call over the radio.

It's part of their radio system

at 1:48 1:49 he calls the ambulance drivera little prick Love it

Some trucks have traffic directors on them. You can see that this one doesnt. The trucks that dont have them have an amber light on each side that wig-wag back and forth. If you look at the back of some engines, you can see the same thing. The turn signal is down further.

nice video. At that hall do you have a tiller ladder or is it ladder 3?

@michaels1432 Its the MDT or Computer on the truck that shows call info and other things

what a tough job in NY. crazy traffic 24/7

Great one!!!!Finally a vid without fuckin music!!the only thing I could ask are subtitles for the radio relay

Well that was not driving with due regard.... If he had hit a car crossing intersections like that, he'd have been in deep shit...

Is this the same ladder 3 which perished in 9/11? Godspeed you lost but brave souls.

Very nice movie guys! FDNY rules... We have also movies from the Amsterdam Fire Department, the Netherlands.

Ladder 3 was lost in 911

RIP Ladder 3

Excellent fire truck driver!

sure threaded the needle with those cabs. that was sweet

yeah thats part of the reason. The city has this stupid noise ordinance thing, saying that its too loud to have a continuous siren, and because of the stop-go nature of NYC traffic, it gets annoying when such a vehicle is stuck in traffic. so they can only use electric Qs.

Looks like a joint in his mouth at .054 and .055 seconds or a really bad rolled cigarette

HA! Lights and sirens mean absolutely nothing to most people....

The telephone ringing sounds- I believe are the call-outs for another apparatus unit. (I could be mistaken though). Either which way, it's part of the FDNY radio/telecommunications system. From what Ive read in the comments here- there are two MDTs in the Engines now? (1 in the 1st Officers seat and one in the rear jumpseats?)

My wife's boyfriend smokes amid smoking rubble. It's comical to watch actually.

It sounded like the ladder truck they started following had a Q when it came through the intersection. Maybe that's what M1Abrams was talking about?

I live in the UK nad went over to NY for a holiday and aboustley love the American sirens. I want to know if the very deep truck horn is for when they are crossing a intersection so that no other cars run into them. Please let me no Regards Scorpia12345

thats someone else switching to yelp because there is a pedal where the officer sits to

@kameron younger, it's a tower ladder that they saw in front of them

It's the battalion chief quartered in the same house.

The phone ring you are hearing is the mobile computer (MDT) on board the truck. The ring is for incoming messages.

Cool video ,I should video myself driving , the ring is a responding company 10-84 at the box ,

Is it me or is the Engineer smoking a cigar

i know that, this tower doesnt, so it has the 2 amber wig wag lights on the back. we have traffic directors on most of our trucks now.

I think Qs are being phased back in in the FDNY

I think they make a little more than 10 bucks a hour but no doubt they have the balls of a hero

Driver = Badass

it really matters which department your in. I know a firefighter who went from San Diego City to Orange county fire Authority. and as a probie he makes more than a Battalion Chief would in San Diego