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47 was using a spare, and I believe those are all older. Not sure if 48 is due for a new rig soon though!

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They do have mini FDNY ambulances for navigating crowds, and the NYPD has quite a few little Smart cars. With all the equipment they carry, I don’t know how many other vehicles could be “shrunken” down! Bus lanes are full size but bike lanes are quite narrow (and filled with delivery e-bikes). Interesting to think about since there’s never enough room for anything in Manhattan!

@@TripleJFire: Some countries use smaller fire vehicles than we do and create bus/bike/taxi lanes wide enough for them. They also bury fire hydrants in the middle of the street, so that parked cars are no issue. Of course, the hydrants are accessible only when traffic is diverted, as it is during fires.

The in-street hydrants is something I didn’t know about-interesting!

Thanks! I try to make it so you’ll see what we saw. We try not to talk when something exciting happens because I always cut it out of the video 😆

I have footage, it’s labeled, and I’ve just gotta pull it together! Mostly vehicles driving around since I was usually catching them for my son.

Cool. We may start seeing more containers here. I believe DSNY and/or the mayor’s office wants to do it, and it’s related to a prop on our ballot. We’ll see what happens!

Haha and that is exactly what I think of saying when we see them! Courtesy of the great Majestirium 😂

I left that in there on purpose 😏

Oh ok

I like that you found it! I left it there as a little Easter egg, and I was wondering if anyone would notice!

In the Easter egg was found Mister softee

I had to look into this because I still didn’t know! They repair department vehicles in the field, carrying parts and equipment. I found the answer in a Facebook post by the FDNY, which I can’t link here. And haha, I agree the name is a little… redundant?

Hi! So it took probably about 30-40 hours of work over the span of 2 weeks. I was so focused on figuring out how to do it and getting it done, and although I took a few short videos to track the progress, I didn’t really think of doing the video until I was almost done with it. Even though it’s been a year, I probably can/should make a longer video about it! In the meantime, if you have specific questions, feel free to ask!

The guy on the Citi bike? Or right after that? Haha maybe I’ve been living under a rock but I don’t know the guy/videos… if you have a link or the name of the guy you’re talking about, I’m curious now!

I like this idea! I was actually recently thinking of something similar-and this gives me a good idea of how to look for footage. Of course, several months ago, when I went and labeled/indexed hundreds of clips, I had not thought of anything like this, so it’ll be a slow combing through material 🙃

@@TripleJFire awesome, thank you so much. I saw one video where at an intersection a fire truck had left the airhorn blaring cause some cars were not really moving and the people at the intersection were covering their ears in reaction to that.

Ha, yeah, I’m not sure why they have the smart cars. For squeezing through traffic maybe? I’m going to look into that!

I sure hope so!

@@TripleJFire Days like the 80s are near, I can see it.

C’est vrai!

They are great!

Oh we’ve got plenty of leftists offended by the flag here too, especially in Manhattan! But thank goodness it hasn’t gotten in the way of R1 displaying it proudly.

@@TripleJFire I haven't travelled for a good few years, previously drove trucks from the UK in and around Western Europe. If I ever fly abroad again, it will be West, paying homage to New York Fire Houses and witnessing those awesome machines up close. God Bless America.

Very cool! And the rigs here really are something to see!

I can’t always catch TSU barreling past a horse drawn carriage! 😆

haha I was trying to guess which clip this was before checking!

Lol

Most of them have them most of the time. Occasionally they'll run out of them. Rescue 1 runs out of stuff quickly in general. And it depends on the house--I think most of them have given them for free, but at a few you have to pay. I don't remember which ones did and didn't, because we went through a stint where we rang a lot of doorbells! You can buy t-shirts (with cash) at most of them too.

@@TripleJFire Thanks for the help!

hope you have a good trip!

The white ones are leased and all have Florida plates-beyond that, I don’t know. I guess they didn’t have to register them in NY. I’ve seen a couple on the road this year but not nearly as many as the previous few years.

But either way, amazing costume. I'm jealous

Thank you! I wonder if you can find out what ever happened to Mr. Twister!

The buff mom is me! 🫣 Full credit to my son for getting me into it. Agree that the R1 chauffeurs make that beast of a rig look nimble! Air horn still doesn’t stop pedestrians from walking in front of it sometimes though 😂

Very cool. I’d love to hear a truck with an actual bell! Agree that Rescue 1 is iconic!

I almost left this one as private or unlisted just to share the link with family, because it’s not really consistent with the channel, but then I figured no harm in making it public 😂

@@TripleJFire Yeah lol

Thank you!

Awesome, thank you!

Cool! Those are hard to find!

@@TripleJFire Didn’t know that!

Thanks!!

And to their credit, NYPD ESU has some pretty cool stuff!

Ahhh I love this! This all started for us when my son was 2 or 3 and he watched fire compilation videos by themajestirium1. It’s literally how he learned to read 2 and 3 digit numbers, asking us to tell us to tell him the numbers on every single vehicle in the videos. Before I knew it, we had accumulated piles of our own footage and I realized I needed to do something to put it together and make it watchable. It sounds like you have a little fire buff in the making! Hopefully yours doesn’t figure out too soon how to crank up the volume all the way 😉

@@TripleJFire lol when I was little, I used to watch videos like this

Thanks! I get super excited when we catch MERV with sirens because it hardly ever happens. My son can spot MERV by ear from like a mile away 🤣

@@TripleJFire You may think I’m joking, but I’m actually planning to make emergency vehicle videos too because if you!

That's awesome-- go for it! I kind of stumbled into it. I started shooting video when we saw stuff, mostly because my son wanted video proof of things we found. Then I started getting excited about finding new units and vehicles and trying to catch them, and eventually I realized I had piles of footage that were just sitting on my phone/computer. I made a compilation so we could watch it, put it on youtube to make it easier to watch wherever, and thought, why not make it public? A little over a year later here we are!

@@TripleJFire Thanks! I have one sitting around my photos of ladder 130 responding. Should I upload it for a fresh start?

It certainly can’t hurt to upload it! And if you’re out there getting videos, at some point you’ll have so much footage you won’t know what to do with it!

Thank you for doing the work for me! I wanted to come back and add time stamps because I didn’t have time to do it right away. Awesome!

15:30 - the tower ladder is tower 35

Thank you!

a little different from the rest of the fleet!

I have been wanting to make one! I’ll definitely put it on the list. Now that my footage is all indexed I should be able to pull it together pretty soon.

Thank you! I love when Mr. Softee makes a cameo in the emergency vehicle videos, haha

@@TripleJFire Lol I love when unrelated stuff randomly shows up in videos! Np!