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Everyone Goes
- Thread starter mack
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Giddy up boys!This is the new standard for firehouse turnouts - 26 seconds - and during a big soccer game.
Willy D would have missed this run.
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How much you wanna bet some disgruntled Bosnian "pulled the hook" ?
LolHow much you wanna bet some disgruntled Bosnian "pulled the hook" ?
Here's one from our good friend and Nycfire.net member, Declean Byrne, aka "IRISH"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfRZmEANoPc
www.youtube.com/watch?v=UfRZmEANoPc
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In Robert Holzman's book The Romance of Firefighting, he notes that in 1896, Engine Company No. 1 (165 West 29th Street) could put their horse drawn steamer in the street fourteen seconds after receipt of an alarm.
In a demonstration in 1871 for the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia (a visiting fireman?), FDNY could put a pumped hose stream in a building four blocks from the firehouse in two minutes and thirty five seconds after the firebox was pulled.
It required the invention of the self-starter for gasoline powered rigs to match this speed.
In a demonstration in 1871 for the Grand Duke Alexis of Russia (a visiting fireman?), FDNY could put a pumped hose stream in a building four blocks from the firehouse in two minutes and thirty five seconds after the firebox was pulled.
It required the invention of the self-starter for gasoline powered rigs to match this speed.