FDNY Rescue 3 vintage footage July 4th, 1991, an Alan Simmons/Firestorm HD Production
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- Опубліковано 28 чер 2010
- Vintage footage of Rescue 3 shot nearly 20 years ago during the week of July 4th, 1991. Featured are station scenes, receiving alarms, responding, and working at numerous fires in the Bronx and Manhattan. Some of the firefighters appearing in this video did not survive the 9/11
terrorist attacks. Also featured is a 4th alarm in Brooklyn. This presentation contains selected scenes from the one hour feature available at www.firestormvideos.com.
This is some of the only footage I can find of my Uncle Christopher Blackwell (He was helmet 342 and unfortunately died in 9/11). I never got to know him, but I glad I could at least see a glimpse of him from this video. Thank you, for giving me this opportunity.
R1 SmokeEater has an excellent video of R3 on his page. It's from a National Geographic piece from the '90s and has footage of your Uncle in it especially at the very end. Hope this helps and sorry for your loss.
Blackwell is also in this video ua-cam.com/video/CQDB_jOFoEE/v-deo.html
I love these vintage videos! I grew up across from a fire station in the late 50's. The trucks had so much character. I have a board on Pinterest for vintage fire trucks. They are works of art! I love these older videos too. Thanks for posting it.
I could not be a fireman anywhere, much less NYC...some people there have no respect for you guys...they don't get out of your way on your way to the scene...or anything else. My hat...if I wore one...would be off to you guys. Whatever your salary is...it's not enough...you've got to love what you do...and, for all the firemen in the world...I salute you.
MY LATE FATHER WAS A FIREFIGHTER IN NJ FOR 35 YEARS. HE RETIRED IN 1994. HE WAS STILL ACTIVE UNTIL 2003. UNTIL HE PASSED AWAY IN 2006. I WAS A FIREFIGHTER FOR 20 YEARS. THANK YOU FOR THE ENCOURAGEMENT OF WHAT FIREFIGHTERS DO EVERYDAY.
Sobering. Thanks to all you guys that do this every day!! God bless you.
As a long time retired veteran, and firefigher. I salute all of you who serve. Proud to always call you my brothers. What ALL of you do for our nation, across this country every day. Makes me remember that old, but appropriate statement about how 'We are going in, while everybody else is trying to get out.'
If only the Civilians knew...much more than the movies can ever show.
this is some of the best footage ive ever seen!!
thanks for sharing this
Excellent Fire Ground Footage of the " Brothers " operating in " The Heat Of The Battle ! "
Thanks for posting !
This is amazing video. God bless all those who did not survive 9/11 and God bless all those who did. May all my brothers, past, present, and future be safe always.
Great video, love the older stuff. Amazing to see how much turnout gear, SCBA & apparatus have improved in twenty years.
firepower782 i wouldn’t say improved... those old Mack’s are still the best apparatus that existed.
My rookie year on FDNY was 1990, I remember those long coats and 3/4 pull-up boots very well.
@@jackangermeier9458 in what way?
5:25 "The Tonka Truck". Probably never a more fitting name for an apparatus and the FDNY
Yes, Tower Ladder 124 in Bushwick, Brooklyn was known as "The Tonka Truck"
Thank You for posting this, if you have more like it i encourage you to post them!
alan, i have the original video. there was also a clip of a general alarm fire in west new york nj that my father was in. any chance of uploading that clip as well?
Worlds greatest FDNY...awesome footage!
..... now 91' videos are "vintage", I am really getting old....
HBMPaladin 36 years ago
Considering i was 10 almost 11 😆 shit really old 😆 still in my 30s lol okay late but still 😆 just think after 25 or 30 years a car depending on what it is can be considered a classic 😆
Yeah me too.... I hired out on FDNY in 1990
They look old as shit too! That can't be '91. They look like the 80's.
@BJohn182 Thank you for your generous comment.
At the beginning of the video....Fordham Road in 1991....amazing. I was born 2 years after this video was shot.
@kaseybaby1 That's correct. Engine 93, Tower Ladder 45, Rescue 3 and I think it was Battalion 17 all responded out of the station at 181 St. and Audubon in Washington Heights.
Excellent video!
MY GRANDPA USED TO TAKE ME THERE (181ST STREET ) BECAUSE I TOLD HIM I WANTED TO BE A FIREFIGHTER AND A GHOSTBUSTER .......HE TOLD ME RESCUE 3 WAS MY FUTURE ECTO1....great vid
RENRAG153 so are you a firefighter
@gdtrfb81 I think you are correct. I haven't been there for several years now but I recall that BC17 was with 92/44.
Tatics sure have changed and come a long way since then.
@R3rules I'm not really sure but I think it may have to do with the area of response for a particular firehouse. For example if one firehouse (engine) has a smaller area of response and is closly backed by two companies containing trucks that may be the reason. Just a guess though...
amazing video. nice job
I used to have all of your VHS tapes. All of the LAFD and FDNY Rescue 3. Do you still sell them?
gotta love the rubber bunker gear back in the day!
My rookie year on FDNY was 1990, I remember those days of long coats and 3/4 pull up boots.
My Uncle was one of the Chiefs in that house Kenny McGowan
The fire at 5:52-6:26 where the firefighter is on a balcony, trapped until the ladder gets there, is part of a longer one that I saw on you tube. Does anyone know where the longer video of that scene is? I know the firefighter at the bottom of the ladder. In the longer scene, you can see him more, and asks the firefighter on the ladder if he's ok. I cant seem to find that video anywhere on you tube.
That FIRE WAS IN CONEY ISLAND I WAS THERE THE CHIEF WAS FRANK CARINO
Does the FDNY still use those tones at 0:38? And what type are they? Could you hear them over the Radio?
thisissparta789789 I don't know what type they are, but yes they still use them. They are not audible on the borough frequencies though.
Nice re-edit. Very good. At 4:18 what does it say on the Mack/Baker tower ladders door ? That was TL 31, wasn't it ? I just don't remember door decals . Tks. Keep up the good work. Louie
Ladder 31 is in the Bronx.
When did FDNY switch to full bunker gear? I can't believe that in 1991 they didn't wear full gear and fought fires in jeans. Were there a lot of injuries that forced to buy full gear?
@captainbfd16 I thought Battalion 17 was quartered with 92/44, and the 13th Battalion was with 93/45 in Washington Hts.
Amazing!
What is that button that the guys tapped repeatedly after announcing who goes on the run?
Dist15ff the bell in the house. They probably have a code set up, one bell for engine, two for truck or something like that.
It's so cool how this fire house had both generations of the heavy rescue truck. This fire house also had an engine and ladder company. You don't see firehouses in the city that has a wide range of rigs anymore. Almost every company has its own house. Can somebody tell me why some firehouses only have one rig, like either a pumper or a truck while most houses have both rigs? Who decides this?
The space there is mostly
Did you hear that tone? That is some quality stuff haha.
That’s sad . God bless them
@Jllucky8 Oh ok. Well if you're right, what you're saying would make sense. Thanks
It was the 13th Battalion...remember it well...grew up in the Heights
"Chief goes Get out Chief"
muito bom
VCR!
does rescue 3 have an engine and a tower ladder at the present ?
No. They are in a house by themselves
Was detailed there
What is "second source"?
happyjack880 a second ( or more) call reporting a fire in the same location as the initial one.
God bless u all
tc-5's and boots "good ole days"
at 2:52 the fireman is standing in jeans wtf?
FF Ray Meisenheimer RES3CUE- RIP.
1:30 I never get tired of watching firefighters just smash crap
@Yanaman
Back in the day before the modern fire service was ruined by the PC culture and the overabundance of safety, there were no standard uniforms.
ALL BOILS DOWN TO POLITICAL ASSHOLES WHO RUINED AMERICAN SOCIETY
same thing happened here in Italy...
from the 2000 everything it's been pussyfied...
I hired out in 1990, so I remember those days well of no standard uniforms, long turn out coats and 3/4 pull up boots. But the as for the changes, they were for the better. About 1995 after new full bunkers were being issued, everyone complained. It was early 1996 when a firefighter in da Bronx became trapped on the upper floors of a ugly tenement apartment building. By the time he was rescued there was fire snorting out windows from both rooms next to him and the fire started to roll over his head behind him. Now other than suffering some nasty burns on his neck and ears he walked away. The only reason for that was his full turn out gear. Once the news got out that this new gear saved a firefighters life, I never heard anyone bitch about wearing full bunkers again.
I believe second source..not sauce, is the second report to dispatch.
Otherwise. We need one of NYFD's finest to tell us how dumb we are.
freeamericausa1 it's FDNY by the way
Vintage?...1991?
Sounds like Q sirens were used back then.
Yes they were, FDNY had a few rigs with the federal Q2B siren on them.
This this time in history, rock band Guns N' Roses just had their first riot two days before in Maryland Heights, Missouri.
I was in paramedic school