Midnight Alarm - LA County FD Station 10

[FlavioGirl]

Sunday is the 40th anniversary of the premiere of Emergency!!!!!!!!! Does anyone know if TVLand or RTV is doing anything to commemorate the event?

[superborisbadenov1]

i agree to that tthey should put emergency back on tv on sasktelmax channel nbc

[FlavioGirl]

too bad you cant show the whole pilot on YT.

[emsman100]

I BECAME AN EMT AFTER 9/11 BUT I ALWAYS REMEMBERED THIS SHOW I WISH THEY WOULD PUT IT BACK ON TV

[emsman100]

I BECAME AN EMT AFTER 9/11 BUT I ALWAYS REMEMBERED THIS SHOW

[trmbnlvr1]

@emsman100 Amen. Bring back the Classics! Dragnet, Adam-12, Emergency! and Hawaii Five-O

[qornothing59]

The GREATEST tv show ever. My friend and I would run home from school to catch it when it was in reruns in the afternoon. My Dad became a vollie when I was four years old and it has been in my blood ever since. I am now a professional FF after many years of volunteering.

[LIVINGSTONHOSE]

@fdnyemt5330 did you know almost all medical calls the fire dept arrives first. how does a big red truck respond faster than a small fast ambulance

[LIVINGSTONHOSE]

@fdnyemt5330 i didnt mean to disrespect you. just dont talk about firefighters

[LIVINGSTONHOSE]

@fdnyemt5330 im not trying to disrespect you. just please dont talking about firefighters ok.

[LIVINGSTONHOSE]

@fdnyemt5330 your a paramedic not a firefighter. you dont carry hose and heavy equipment into burning structures. i know cause im a firefighter in westchester county ny

[mrengine9]

Why do they have turnout pants in this episode but in others they don't.

[25Yankeesfan]

@mrengine9 this is before the squad concept so they only went to fire calls

[mrengine9]

@25Yankeesfan I meant everyone from 51 didn't usually wear their turnout pants.

[25Yankeesfan]

@mrengine9 o ok



[25Yankeesfan]

@mrengine9 ya ur right. but this is waaaay before there was those OSHA and other places that i dont know the name of rules. Long ago, people were riding to calls on the hose bed. but then again, that was like the 70's like this show. I think this takes place in the 70's

[0524cami]

this is Station 8 West Hollywood

[firefighter1229]

that staton is also used in another emergency episode where they renumber it to station 8 intead of 10.

this station is actually the los angeles county station 8 in west hollywood

[engine173351]

This must have been the flashback episode, because if I remember right, the pilot had different music during the response scene. And some of these scenes were shortened.

[JMWmemphis]

Its realy cool when they all get in the rigs

[LycoValleyRRFan]

@fdnyemt5330 Oh I though you were talking about the dispatch/responding scene. The fire I under stand.

[LycoValleyRRFan]

@fdnyemt5330 Why one take only?

[SaleGuy]

You got to put up the full episode please!

[chadfilms1]

Best. Show/Pilot. EVAR!

[Camman010]

I loved this show back in the day. I now have all of season 1 including the pilot on DVD and all of the rest of seasons 2, 4 and 5 downloaded. Even back in the early 80s I was scoring 100% on my first aid exams and I feel that this show had a lot to do with it.

[mastercfromhalo3]

why does station 10 have the same qwik call tone as 51????

[Wa3ypx]

Anybody catch that order, "Lay a 31/2" That was LDH back in the day. Also how about that engine laying duals, that sucks picking that up!

[mboz38]

can u upload the rest of the pilot?

[ANONYMOUS1747]

why is johnny at station 10???

[BassmanII]

@ANONYMOUS1747 This was his station assignment before becoming a paramedic. Squad 10 was not a paramedic squad at the time.

[southlinefire10]

@ANONYMOUS1747 back at the begining of this episode station 51 was not in existance yet it came later on after john and roy became certified paramedics

[ColinFWheeler]

I was 10 yrs old when I first saw this pilot episode of Emergency! and it sparked a life long interest in fire department operations. This opening scene is a classic. I'd like to take a pilgrimage to see LACFD Stn 8 in West Hollywood (where this was filmed ... the real Stn 10 is in Carson) some day to pay homage. The station has E8, E208, Q8, and Squad 8 quartered there ... much like in this episode. T127, shown at the end, was quartered in Stn 127, used for outside shots of Stn 51

[dnldharold]

I am a EMT I in a little town in Virginia. When I was a little kid I use to watch this show and loved it. That is why I became an EMT. A lot of things we do now was not done in the 70 ths. We do not call much for medical direction, just go by standing orders by the OMD. Emergency Medical care has come a long way, due to the fact that the public was informed in the 70 ths due to this show

[Battalion5131]

The fire fighting in the opening scene was actually done by the LAcoFD

[lifelinepaul]

I became a junior firefighter and a jr mrt because of this show

[lifelinepaul]

Sam Lanier was the dispatcher and there is a current Station, Engine, Squad & patrol 51

[THEFINALHAZARD]

Anyone know what kinda car the Battalion Chief has there?

[pablopcasso]

@THEFINALHAZARD Plymouth Satellite

[coolsax64]

I have time to at least take a shit before I leave on an early morning call...

[coolsax64]

I have time to at least take a shit before I leave on an early morning call...

[lecou18]

Is that Sam Lanier as the dispatcher?

[DefconWarningSystem]

What a crock! When the alarm went off in the middle of the night, no one, but no one, leapt out of bed! And the first thing we did was go to the bathroom!

[LasVegasKev]

How many people became firemen or paramedics because of this show?

[Thenews72]

@LasVegasKev My dad became a firefighter because of this show. I used to watch it in 2002 on TV land, and now i want to be a paramedic

[amblefire]

@LasVegasKev Me for sure!

[wlittle]

@LasVegasKev I know that the show played a part in my becoming a firefighter. The death of my sister from a natural gas explosion was the other driving force.

[SoccerBoy77]

WOW i miss watching that show. EMERGENCY and Adam-12 where like my two favorites. wish they'd come back

[blueticecho]

How come no boots?

[florianosna]

omg - fucking old but great !

[stupullen]

Love the old MARS wig-wag light on the Engine.

[Marckymarc71]

I love how they snuck the real station 51's apparatus (Truck 127) into the calls all the time.

[daddydog97]

Yeah, me too. It was the very least Universal Pictures could do considering how often 127's got displaced. BTW, I swear that those motors are Hall-Scotts, no diesels.

[Trogman12]

sweet vid

[daddydog97]

Rest In Peace, Sam Lanier, the voice of LACOFD.

[volfire2]

Obviously they took the pilot movie "The Wedsworth/Townsend Act" and turned into a two part flashback episode for season three.

[wkat950]

This particular clip was from a retrospective. The sirens sound a bit different than in the original pilot. You hear a different series of B&M and possibly PA-20 sirens while they leave the station when watching the original. The station is called 10 in the original versus 8 in the retrospective. Also note the Billy May "modern" music. May did the music from 1973 onwards, replacing Nelson Riddle.

[MetalSanke]

is that first siren at 0:57 a C5G?

[narutofightindreamer]

Hey, I just noticed these early episodes. The LA County Station was a different one from the later episodes. Where is this station located and why did Jack Webb move his filming to a newer district of unicorperated LA County??? I like these older episodes better. I suppose it's for the good old "Open Cab Crowns". also the early 70's era "Dodge Power Wagon" chassis of the Rescue Unit is pretty cool as well. Oh, you should have shown a couple more minutes at the end, so we could see that Snorkel.

[wlittle]

If you'd like to see that snorkel (or one very similar to it) just Goggle "American-LaFrance" and then click on images. Judging from the basket it's their Aero-Chief model.

[LAcoFIREguy]

The station they used in the later years "station 51" was at Carson City Station #127, slow good place to film.

[LAcoFIREguy]

The station is # 8 and was used in the pilot episodes before it was remodled up.

7643 Santa Monica Blvd.

West Hollywood, CA

[MIKECNW]

@LAcoFIREguy How come they used a diffent number instead of the actual one?

Obviously they did the same for Station 51 which is actually 127.

[LAcoFIREguy]

@MIKECNW The 1st scene is station 8 in West Hollywood

[LAcoFIREguy]

@MIKECNW I don't know came on after the show, lol....... Hollywood ya know! Like Backdraft's Engine 17 & Ladder 46 was actually the slowest station they have not the busiest.

[RDG484]

1:46 LOVE that classic Seagrave K-cab. Where I used to volunteer we had one just like it that we finally replaced in 2005 with guess what? Another Seagrave! We got 32 years out of her.

[daddydog97]

Good idea. There's a valid argument that Seagraves are the toughest rigs available. Still, I'm sorry Crown is long out of business. As I understand, LACOFD still has a few late 1970's Crown widecabs in current front-line service.

[mattysmama]

didn't anybody see, that they responded out of station 8?

[mattysmama]

and they don't even have a pole anymore.

[mattysmama]

now, fire station 10 is in carson, and now they have engine 10, foam 10, utility 7, and battalion 7, anda reserve battalion.

[wlittle]

That second call - the electrocution - is what convinces Johnny to become a Paramedic.. He realizesit after they get to Rampart and he says "all we rescued was a corpse."

[wlittle]

Just out of curiousity, does anybody know how old Johnny (Randy Mantooth) was when this aired? He looks so young. . .like maybe early 20's.

[daddydog97]

Randy was only 26 on the original air date (January 15, 1972). Colby Chester was the actor who played his partner on Squad 10.

[volfire2]

It's interesting to note that Colby Chester, who played Johnny's partner, Tony Freeman in the pilot movie played Gil, a paramedic trainee, in the season four episode "Transition". It's the episode that Roy gets sprayed in the face by a cobra.

[BassmanII]

In that episode, Roy relates to Gil about how he felt when he lost his first patient (Season 2 "Problem") and the advice the Dr. Brackett gave him.

[562doug]

0:53 is the coolest

[fmartinjr]

God bless the Snorkel at the end

[daddydog97]

Amen to that. Last I heard, ALF owns all rights to the "Snorkel" name, but they don't make them anymore. The closest I can find is the E-One Bronto.

P.S. to Mr. Martin: You don't, by chance, have any more "Code Red" episodes somewhere? Just curious.

[fmartinjr]

Just the one's on here that I uploaded a year or so ago.I'll have to serch all of my v.h.s. tapes.Problem is I have like 200 of them.

[BassmanII]

Actually, Pierce owns the Snorkel name and patents. ALF owns LTI.

[daddydog97]

You don't say. I wonder why Pierce hasn't offered them in their product line-up.

[Thenews72]

@BassmanII I think its sad you don't see many snorkel units anymore.

[BassmanII]

I think that with the popularity and greater effectiveness of tower ladders, this is why articulated booms such as the Snorkel, have fallen into firefighting history much like the Chemical truck, the High pressure Deluge, and the standalone water tower did.

[FirefighterEmt4Life]

hahah, this is the intro to the Emergency! series!