HELLO THANKS TO WHO PUT THIS VIDEO ON YOU TUBE I REMEBER THIS VIDEO REAL WELL PLEASE SAVE THIS FINE VIDEO .OK FROM ERIC W JOHNSON MY AGE 48 BORN 11.03.1963 OK THATS ALL KEEP MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE ON YOU TUBE
@tpirman1982 That thing is the tape machine or "tape" for short. The rig was a mechanical call box identifier. When a person would pull the fire alarm on the street or building, the alarm would be activated and a unique number would be imprinted on the tape that then would be used to locate the call to an address. This was the predecessor to the addressable fire alarm. Not only would it alert you to a fire, it would tell you WHERE!
@johneastmond I see. Seems old fashioned. I wonder how they get their fire emergency locations these days when a fire is reported instead of that old fashioned way.
@tpirman1982 nowadays we use advanced 911. How that works is when you call, the address of the phone is automatically displayed on the dispatcher's screen. The info. is based in [hone company records. This only works for landlines! For cellphones the recent development is GPS. When a 911 call is made, the position is triangulated and a location is displayed. With all these systems (even tape) the assumption is the call location is the emergency location.
Wow you brought back some memories. I remember when our fire station had a Mack Pumper it was old Engine 19. It was sold to The Netherlands and it sunk to the bottom of the ocean when the ship wrecked or so my dad said.
Why does he have a coat to keep dry? You would think he would want to be wet because if he is dry, fire can get on him if wet, the fre could not get on him. What is the deal?
@koala371 Those are fire resistant coats as well as waterproof. They protect him from being burned by hot coals if they fall on him. Hot timbers can still burn you if they fall on you regardless if your shirt is wet or not. You also wouldn't want to be soaking wet trying to do your job in such conditions. The weight of the water would make it hard to walk or move.
Thanks for posting! The part I remember most is when the two firefighters are playing chess while the fire bell sounds, and they promptly leave in order to perform their duties! Nice memory!
Fun to see this again! Open cab apparatus, mechanical telegraph, no hose wringers, no SCUBA. 3:19 backing in an articulated apparatus is quite hard! The rear driver steers the rear of the truck whilst the front steers the rear of the tractor and the front of the tractor. (rear of the front and front of the front!) this was fun to see some of the old equipment.
@johneastmond Did they actually used to ride standing on the truck, or is that just on T.V.? (Our little volunteer Dept. doesn't have any such thing. The tallest ladder we have is 30 Ft.) I can't believe they would take such risks. I wonder what the liability would be if 1 of the guys fell off and got hurt or killed!
@jfpinell Yes they did! Can you believe it?! You'd have 20 or so of us standing on the outside of the apparatus, with no harnesses or seatbelts on the outside or the inside! this was shot in good weather, what about cold icy snowy conditions? I've done the -40 degree F 40 minute dispatch, that's fun!! Garbage trucks, log trucks, crew trucks and the like also had folks standing and holding on. There wasn't allot of freeway speeds but there was some.
@johneastmond "....20 or so of US on the truck"? I take it you're a city kid, huh? We never had anything like that in farm country. :) I remember the garbage men on the back of the trucks though. I'm assuming that with everyone sue-happy today (and idiotic judges of today willing to hear such stupid cases in many situations!), you guys don't stand on the outside anymore?
@jfpinell Not from the city bud. Ran remote facilities and municipalities in the middle of nowhere. We responded to military camps, man camps, minner's camps and even a couple of Boy Scout camps. The oldest apparatus is a steam driven pump then comes the world war one hand cranker crane. The newest is a 2000 dodge service truck with all the goodies. The biggest town I've dealt with is about 40,000 people. mostly we deal in 2,000 folks or less.
@johneastmond I've just always said there were 2 kinds of people....farmers and city kids. :) I know a handful of people that moved into the still mainly farming area I'm in and pick on them all the time.....everything from milking heifers to storing milk in silos, to cow tipping, and what not else. :)
@jfpinell Of coarse my favorite is the city folk who move from town and then cry about the smell!!! Or folks who cry about; "that's not how we do it...." . I just laugh and tell them this is how WE do it! We still use steam and mechanical apparatus which you could never use in town, but works great (in fact most new stuff wouldn't fit or work for us) for what we do.
Wow. I would have thought that open-top firetrucks would have been obsolete even by the sixties. Shows what I know. Watching too much Emergency!, I guess...
I did want to grow up to be the ladder truck rear driver, though. Instead I joined the USCG.
Well over 20 year ago my Father told me that in the early 1970s when I was around 3-4 years old, whenever I was in the car with him, he'd be driving along, and every time I spotted a fire engine, I would pipe up singing:" "Here comes the firemen in their firetruck!", over and over again. When he related this story to me, I had no idea of where this came from, why I sang that when I saw a fire engine. Now I know :-)
Fireman, he's fighting the fire! Boots to keep to water out, helmet to keep his head dry, raincoat to keep the water out. The fireman, he's fighting the fire, the fireman! The fireman puts out the fire. The fire's out, the fire's out, the fire's out! We're going back... To the firehouse... (Whistles) The fireman!
Yes it was my favorite too. My grandmom would take me to the Fire House and I WAS EFING FASCINATED by the fire truck, firemen. They would put me in the firetruck and I probably shat my pants I was so happy - I was only a toddler but I remember - this video had a magical spell over me.
tpirman 1982 was right! that's about when i remember it from. might anyone know what town or city that was in, or if it was more that one city fire department. one of the scenes showed a city bus model that was only in Chicago.
"Helmet to keep his head dry"? Try, "helmet to keep him from getting hurt when shit falls on his head". BTW, the guy polishing the rig was probably the "probie".
During the Cold War, folks in the West (especially in the United States) referred to the Russians as "reds". I used to think that's why fire engines were red.. 'cause they were always rushin'.
Actually, red is a common color for emergency workers because of its brightness and temperature (warm colors tend to advance, cool ones recede). That's why stop signs and lights are that color.
I believe it -- you can sort of tell how retro by the firemen's appearances, and that the music sounds like Simon & Garfunkel if S&G composed educational songs.
HELLO THANKS TO WHO PUT THIS VIDEO ON YOU TUBE I REMEBER THIS VIDEO REAL WELL PLEASE SAVE THIS FINE VIDEO .OK FROM ERIC W JOHNSON MY AGE 48 BORN 11.03.1963 OK THATS ALL KEEP MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS ONE ON YOU TUBE
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1:00 What is that reel machine next to the fire bell?
tpirman1982 10 months ago
@tpirman1982 That thing is the tape machine or "tape" for short. The rig was a mechanical call box identifier. When a person would pull the fire alarm on the street or building, the alarm would be activated and a unique number would be imprinted on the tape that then would be used to locate the call to an address. This was the predecessor to the addressable fire alarm. Not only would it alert you to a fire, it would tell you WHERE!
johneastmond 9 months ago
@johneastmond I see. Seems old fashioned. I wonder how they get their fire emergency locations these days when a fire is reported instead of that old fashioned way.
tpirman1982 9 months ago
@tpirman1982 nowadays we use advanced 911. How that works is when you call, the address of the phone is automatically displayed on the dispatcher's screen. The info. is based in [hone company records. This only works for landlines! For cellphones the recent development is GPS. When a 911 call is made, the position is triangulated and a location is displayed. With all these systems (even tape) the assumption is the call location is the emergency location.
johneastmond 8 months ago
Wow you brought back some memories. I remember when our fire station had a Mack Pumper it was old Engine 19. It was sold to The Netherlands and it sunk to the bottom of the ocean when the ship wrecked or so my dad said.
Targetsignal2 10 months ago
Why does he have a coat to keep dry? You would think he would want to be wet because if he is dry, fire can get on him if wet, the fre could not get on him. What is the deal?
koala371 1 year ago
@koala371 Those are fire resistant coats as well as waterproof. They protect him from being burned by hot coals if they fall on him. Hot timbers can still burn you if they fall on you regardless if your shirt is wet or not. You also wouldn't want to be soaking wet trying to do your job in such conditions. The weight of the water would make it hard to walk or move.
jfpinell 11 months ago
WOW!!! what a blast from the past. Can't believe I remembered this.
irish31267 1 year ago
I always thought the song sounded kind of sad, but liked this skit a lot anyway
SnowbirdFlock 1 year ago
The old ticker tape our firestation here has one of those and the thing still works. It comes from according to my dad a box call.
Targetsignal2 1 year ago
Thanks for posting! The part I remember most is when the two firefighters are playing chess while the fire bell sounds, and they promptly leave in order to perform their duties! Nice memory!
d72jjpilc 1 year ago
Thats Trenton,NJ Engine 10 and Ladder 4 . Firehouse is on Perry Street.
Ladder34190 1 year ago
I wonder if firepoles still come equipped with slide whistles...
;-)
mdumas43073 1 year ago
Fun to see this again! Open cab apparatus, mechanical telegraph, no hose wringers, no SCUBA. 3:19 backing in an articulated apparatus is quite hard! The rear driver steers the rear of the truck whilst the front steers the rear of the tractor and the front of the tractor. (rear of the front and front of the front!) this was fun to see some of the old equipment.
johneastmond 1 year ago
@johneastmond Did they actually used to ride standing on the truck, or is that just on T.V.? (Our little volunteer Dept. doesn't have any such thing. The tallest ladder we have is 30 Ft.) I can't believe they would take such risks. I wonder what the liability would be if 1 of the guys fell off and got hurt or killed!
jfpinell 11 months ago
@jfpinell Yes they did! Can you believe it?! You'd have 20 or so of us standing on the outside of the apparatus, with no harnesses or seatbelts on the outside or the inside! this was shot in good weather, what about cold icy snowy conditions? I've done the -40 degree F 40 minute dispatch, that's fun!! Garbage trucks, log trucks, crew trucks and the like also had folks standing and holding on. There wasn't allot of freeway speeds but there was some.
johneastmond 11 months ago
@johneastmond "....20 or so of US on the truck"? I take it you're a city kid, huh? We never had anything like that in farm country. :) I remember the garbage men on the back of the trucks though. I'm assuming that with everyone sue-happy today (and idiotic judges of today willing to hear such stupid cases in many situations!), you guys don't stand on the outside anymore?
jfpinell 11 months ago
@jfpinell Not from the city bud. Ran remote facilities and municipalities in the middle of nowhere. We responded to military camps, man camps, minner's camps and even a couple of Boy Scout camps. The oldest apparatus is a steam driven pump then comes the world war one hand cranker crane. The newest is a 2000 dodge service truck with all the goodies. The biggest town I've dealt with is about 40,000 people. mostly we deal in 2,000 folks or less.
johneastmond 11 months ago
@johneastmond I've just always said there were 2 kinds of people....farmers and city kids. :) I know a handful of people that moved into the still mainly farming area I'm in and pick on them all the time.....everything from milking heifers to storing milk in silos, to cow tipping, and what not else. :)
jfpinell 10 months ago
@jfpinell Of coarse my favorite is the city folk who move from town and then cry about the smell!!! Or folks who cry about; "that's not how we do it...." . I just laugh and tell them this is how WE do it! We still use steam and mechanical apparatus which you could never use in town, but works great (in fact most new stuff wouldn't fit or work for us) for what we do.
johneastmond 10 months ago
what city is this from? TFD?? I'll bet that the firehouse is still there! lol
microbusss 1 year ago
@microbusss this is from Trenton, NJ
rockintetster 1 year ago
@rockintetster thanks but where is the firehouse? Is it still there & used? hehe
microbusss 1 year ago
Saw this last night (we bought this DVD of Old School Sesame Street--you all should). I was amazed at how much I remembered from the old shows.
cochranexyz 1 year ago
@cochranexyz
I also have that DVD set!
Smartboy8877 1 year ago
big red truck big lime green fire truck
schemer1991 1 year ago
Wow. I would have thought that open-top firetrucks would have been obsolete even by the sixties. Shows what I know. Watching too much Emergency!, I guess...
I did want to grow up to be the ladder truck rear driver, though. Instead I joined the USCG.
barkon 2 years ago
@barkon For forget, Emergency debuted in 1872.
MIKECNW 1 year ago
@MIKECNW Of course I meant 1972.
MIKECNW 1 year ago
Well over 20 year ago my Father told me that in the early 1970s when I was around 3-4 years old, whenever I was in the car with him, he'd be driving along, and every time I spotted a fire engine, I would pipe up singing:" "Here comes the firemen in their firetruck!", over and over again. When he related this story to me, I had no idea of where this came from, why I sang that when I saw a fire engine. Now I know :-)
classicphile 2 years ago
Go firefighters!
1f5sda 2 years ago
We'll be back after this important word.
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
How about the pompier ladder on that rig
Wa3ypx 2 years ago
Hahn engine, Pirsch ladder
Wa3ypx 2 years ago
The "Golden Age of Firefighting!"
Wa3ypx 2 years ago
Fire!
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
She is a nice warm friendly animal, the cow. Oom-moo!
Hey cow, I see you, noooooooo...
...ooow.
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
Fireman, he's fighting the fire! Boots to keep to water out, helmet to keep his head dry, raincoat to keep the water out. The fireman, he's fighting the fire, the fireman! The fireman puts out the fire. The fire's out, the fire's out, the fire's out! We're going back... To the firehouse... (Whistles) The fireman!
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
Fireman, he's fighting the fire!
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
Hey cow, I see you now.
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
The writer and singer of the song in this clip is William Barnes Brown, same guy who did "Hey Cow" from Episode 1.
RSG2006 2 years ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Elmo's penis? Or what?
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
Does anyone know where the clip of the firemen going to the scene of the fire and putting it out with the hose is on YouTube?
I'd be so indebted to anyone who could point it out to me....
solpapisolmook 2 years ago
For the car freaks - the Battalion Chief's car is a 1967 Pontiac Catalina.
quirpco 2 years ago
the fire is OUT
douggypledger 2 years ago
The fireman uses a tall ladder
To put him near the fire
He makes the ladder long
So he can go up higher
Come on baby, light my fire
DiAnno13 3 years ago
Try to set tonight on fire!
kfgsuvhug 2 years ago
There were also parts shot in New York City at 3:01-3:03 and 2:36-2:40
1f5sda 4 years ago
I always loved this and when i bought the DVD set, and saw this again, it brought back happy memories! I like the 67 Pontiac Fire Chief car!
regency98us 4 years ago
Thanks for uploading this! This brings back my childhood watching Sasame Street. This clip was always my favorite because of it's catchy tune.
The FIREMANNN!
Well Done.
Lenell B.
BTW: Do you have the song "Gimme 5" It was sung by the guys from Sasame street.
lenellbr 4 years ago
That one's already posted.
wattamack4 4 years ago
Can you give the link. I can't seem to find it. I would appericate it.
lenellbr
lenellbr 4 years ago
Yes it was my favorite too. My grandmom would take me to the Fire House and I WAS EFING FASCINATED by the fire truck, firemen. They would put me in the firetruck and I probably shat my pants I was so happy - I was only a toddler but I remember - this video had a magical spell over me.
endgammer 4 years ago
tpirman 1982 was right! that's about when i remember it from. might anyone know what town or city that was in, or if it was more that one city fire department. one of the scenes showed a city bus model that was only in Chicago.
mel4pat2000 4 years ago
"Helmet to keep his head dry"? Try, "helmet to keep him from getting hurt when shit falls on his head". BTW, the guy polishing the rig was probably the "probie".
uofmrules1 4 years ago
Iremember this as well.....but when I saw it it was round when I was a twerp.
2199 4 years ago
This song grooves!
nateking21 4 years ago
During the Cold War, folks in the West (especially in the United States) referred to the Russians as "reds". I used to think that's why fire engines were red.. 'cause they were always rushin'.
DiAnno13 4 years ago
Actually, red is a common color for emergency workers because of its brightness and temperature (warm colors tend to advance, cool ones recede). That's why stop signs and lights are that color.
rambam1204 3 years ago
Yes, a warm colour is certainly appropriate for a fire engine.
DiAnno13 3 years ago
Or maybe hot pink...
DiAnno13 3 years ago
Believe it or not, according to Muppet Wiki, the first time this film aired was in episode 131 on November 9, 1970.
tpirman1982 4 years ago
I remember it! (Oops, I just dated myself)
raposofan 4 years ago
I believe it -- you can sort of tell how retro by the firemen's appearances, and that the music sounds like Simon & Garfunkel if S&G composed educational songs.
welchm8 4 years ago
What's suprising about that?
MIKECNW 4 years ago
"Where's the fire, Chief?"
DiAnno13 4 years ago