Oh No There's a Fire

[squalie82]

thats some good classic video. i haven't seen IIA paks on a rack in a very, very long time. nice job.

[VFVFCo68]

I didnt know 2 used to have black gear...

[VFVFCo68]

haha station 2...

[thisissparta789789]

2:05 was a firefigher riding on the tailboard on that engine?

[VFVFCo68]

My company stands-by and RITs for this company ALL the time!

[rrobertsnot5150]

Did you light the house on fire just for this video?

[THEFINALHAZARD]

Those guys sure as hell took their time with their gear...specially that guy taking his jacket off, he HAD to wait till he got OVER there and had his bunker pants on, when he COULDA been taking it off en-route to the gear.

[firepoliceambulance]

i like fire trucks ambulances and police cars but my most favorites are fire trucks and ambulances

[RDG484]

Berwyn back in the day was Ford country!!!

[trafficdan]

E-One country too!

[RDG484]

Hey Traffic, are there any Ford tilt-cabs left at Berwyn Fire Co. today?

[trafficdan]

I am not really sure. I haven't been there in a while. I think the rescue and maybe one engine still are.

[RDG484]

Thanks. I'll have to stop in one day.

[LifesaversofFuture]

Do you have an idea of what the siren is on the ambulance?? Sounds to me like a PA-20A or FS Interceptor.

[trafficdan]

I have no clue. I rarely rode on the ambulance rigs and back then they used to get new rigs on a fairly regular basis. So it would definitely had been from that era. (late 80's)

[fire904]

To answer your question there is a 1983 Ford C/E-ONE engine and a 1990 Ford C/EONE custom rescue still in service.

[RDG484]

Thanks. I'll have to stop up one day.

[ColonelSamatoshi]

Ford tilt cabs? You talking about the trucks with a C-900 cab?

You what pisses me off? those trucks were used in alot of dept's, but no model co. bothers to make a kit of the type!

[RDG484]

Look up Athearn and Walthers. Athearn makes a Ford C-Series tilt-cab truck that comes in many different styles all in H.O. scale. Check it out. I have a 2-axle tractor, a red/white pump, and a Boston-style Heavy Rescue.

[ColonelSamatoshi]

I'm not looking for a model RR model, I'm looking for a model kit. 2 different things.

[RDG484]

Ahh, I see. You're right as far as that goes. About the closest thing I've seen in plastic models is the 1960's Ford Econoline van.

[ColonelSamatoshi]

I'm using a american lafrance pumper model with a ford c-600 model to make one myself.

Just wish the morons at the model co.'s would put out a kit.

[RDG484]

Just a thought, maybe you might want to save the rear half of the ALF's cab to make a canopy extension for the Ford cab? Do you think it will fit? Maybe body putty could fill in whatever's different? Again just a thought.

[ColonelSamatoshi]

I'm planning to use the ALF cab to add length, & leave the ford cab as is to look like 1 of the trucks up here in the 70's.

[RDG484]

That's exactly what I meant. Let me know when you're done with it, then post some photos. I'd love to see it.

[ColonelSamatoshi]

Ok, now THIS' weird. The ford cab model has a pair of red domes......

& no, I didn't screw up & put ALF parts in the ford cab box(That's the 1st thing I checked).

So Ertl/amt made a ford firetruck model???

[RDG484]

According to the latest Fire Apparatus Journal, "Models By Dave" makes conversion kits for AMT models, including an ALF Century cab and a Ford C-Series cab with canopy extension. Interested??

[ColonelSamatoshi]

HELL YES! Can you scan the pages in???

Looks like I'm going to be buying another model kit to build. :))

[lmsasquatch]

Cool! 5/5!

[fire904]

believe me, there is a lot of those Ford C-Series tilt-cabs in the midwest.

[MIoldtimer]

Yep, we (EMS)run with a couple of twp departments that still have them in service.

[trafficdan]

thanks for watching!

[kirky316]

Great Job, just out of curiousity where did you get the code red theme, Ive been searcing for that for a while and still can't find it.

[trafficdan]

It was still on tv back in the late 80's so I think I had it on a video tape at the time. Have you tried one of those file share sites? Someone might have it. Thanks for the compliment on the video. I ended up submitting it for a class and received and A on it.

[kirky316]

Thanx for the reply, and you deserved the A..

[fire904]

What year was this made? Was it a TV series or something?

[trafficdan]

It was made in 1988. It was part of a high school project I did. I recently found the VHS copy and converted it to digital

[seagravefan]

I would cherish this video if at least for the fact that Ford C-series tilt-cab apparatus are getting more and more rare. Next to Seagrave, I would say Ford C-Series are my favorite rigs. I remember as a kid we had a Ford C-750/Bruco Heavy Rescue with a 360 V-8 gas. A bit underpowered, but it was the first truck in the area to carry a Hurst Tool. Berwyn at one time was the Ford C-series capital of the Main Line!!!