Boston Fire Department 1930s

This video was complied from files in the Stillman Fire Collection, Perlinger Archives and put together to make this presentation represent how a huge building fire might have been fought in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1930s. Note for general interest and comments that at 2:16 a relatively new American LaFrance pumper has a hand-crank siren and a Roto Ray warning light. However at 3:03 a similar ALF is shown with an electo-mechanical siren. Obviously, I added the sound effects to this video, but the original film was silent. If you wish to see the film as it was made you will need to turn your computer speakers off.

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• Fire
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• 1930's
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• firefighting

[switcher450]

Those are real "smoke eaters", no protection

whatsoever but lots o'guts !!!

[eks1966]

This is really cool! Thanks for sharing it.

[FirePhotog]

Great Video, thanks for posting  it....

[MIKCURIE]

Wow ....must have had 10-12 lines lines going into the front ......great vid

[FFTeagan]

Nice vid to bad they dident have fire tones lol

[sickkat44]

@joemac356 "foley" is the term used to put sound effects to film.

[joemac356]

Who is this, "Foley" character, then?

[tubesteakdynamo]

So, is this really bad modern day Foley, or surprisingly good 1930's Foley?  :) ;D

Excellent video.

[cuinoide]

true firefighters

[cuinoide]

bomberos verdaderos