A LOOK BACK.

Certainly the old days. Taking a feed....hanging out a window looking for some air...

Sitting on the back step with mild carbon monoxide poisoning....glassy eyed...moving slowly...puking....pasted!

Spend the rest of the afternoon coughing sludge out of your lungs.....taking recoup time (Take an hour!)

That's what I remember seeing on the fireground in the 1960's.
 
The worst jobs were in the Old Law Tenements with the long hallway to the first bedroom off to the left or right, take out the window take a blow and continue down the hallway to the kitchen and other rooms where the fire was. Crawling down hallways was normal procedure in them. A lot of bad knees as a result.
 
ta176 said:
The worst jobs were in the Old Law Tenements with the long hallway to the first bedroom off to the left or right, take out the window take a blow and continue down the hallway to the kitchen and other rooms where the fire was. Crawling down hallways was normal procedure in them. A lot of bad knees as a result.
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........and they kept pushing in even though the nozzle melted!
 
patrickfd said:
The person posting the video is the Captain of Tac 1 in Hartford, Ct. Jack Jansen who was on the NY Fire Patrol then Hartford FD gave Andrew some video to post online. I was with Jack the other night and he was telling me this.
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This was a great look back. I think this was before the era of FDNY 10-signals. You certainly would have heard the All-Hands 7-5 signal on the primary and secondary bell circuits.
 
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Darrell said:
When and why were the 10 Codes created again?
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I believe FDNY ten code usage began in 1953. Fire department ten codes generally serve to standardize incident classifications, standardize status and resolution messages and perhaps most of call reduce air time between CO and companies
 
Capttomo said:
I believe FDNY ten code usage began in 1953. Fire department ten codes generally serve to standardize incident classifications, standardize status and resolution messages and perhaps most of call reduce air time between CO and companies
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1953 would make sense as that's about the time the entire FDNY became connected via radio. As the military learned during World War II, it was crucial to standardize and limit air time. As a company grade officer in 1953 my father at first resented now having to communicate with the CO via radio. He feared the dispatchers would now be interfering with fire ground operations. When that didn't happen he got with the program. Having heard inexperienced radio operators in the Army, I can only imagine the verbal diarrhea broadcast initially over the FDNY radios until things standardized.
 
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