Part 1 BBC The Bronx is Burning FDNY Eng 82 Lad 31

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  • @HikingBob
    @HikingBob 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    RIP Dennis Smith. "Report from Engine Co 82" got me started on my career as a firefighter, which lasted for 38 years.

  • @billysandsbury7703
    @billysandsbury7703 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    RIP Dennis Smith…report from Engine Company 82 was a great read and I had Dennis autograph my copy of it when I met him when my ship was in dry dock in the Brooklyn Navy Yard many years ago
    I met Arbuckle Mcfatty too😀

    • @simonyip5978
      @simonyip5978 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Have you still got the book?

  • @JaysCountrymoma
    @JaysCountrymoma 11 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Thanks for the comment and thanks Brian for posting the video. Thats my uncle...he absolutely loved his job and was a proud fireman.

  • @damook88
    @damook88 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    There will only ever be one Dennis Smith. Rest easy, sir. Even then The Bronx had notable fire characteristics.

  • @whome126144
    @whome126144 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I meet eddie m in 1977durring the blackout was the nicest person the last time I saw him was in 2000 I was sad to read he passed rip eddie you will never be forgotten by me and my family

  • @vinnyrac
    @vinnyrac 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    How fortunate for the FDNY, the City of N.Y. and U.S.A, that in the midst of this madness and despair, a journalist firefighter would emerge to chronicle this time for posterity. Watching this takes me back to those seemingly endless dark and overcast days of the 70's when hopelessness was rampant and urban decay the accepted norm. A lot has been written on the War Years, but you had to live it and be there to understand it. Thank You Denis Smith to Brian Sullivan for posting.

  • @will-i-am9575
    @will-i-am9575 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    i couldnt believe my ears when they said people would cut holes in the floor so firemen woulf fall through and rig up piano wire, or fill water ballons with gasoline in fires...that is just a sick twisted thing to do

    • @johnhintz4760
      @johnhintz4760 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      The Didn't call the Early 70's the War years for nothing.. Pure balls to the walls Combat Firefighting.

  • @chiefrich1804
    @chiefrich1804 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This is epic. I wouldn't even be a firefighter, more or less one in NYC, if it wasn't for me reading Dennis Smith's book, which I read while I was in high-school in 1987, two years later I flew out to NYC from my home city of St. Paul,MN and took the test.

  • @litespeedmuzic
    @litespeedmuzic 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    he is an inspiration . to do what they do with flawed equipment makes it . even more incredible .

  • @MermaidsSecretCOM
    @MermaidsSecretCOM 8 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Without wearing bearing apparatus many of these guys suffered from poor health in later years. That smoke is not good

  • @markwilson8562
    @markwilson8562 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    holy crap thanks for uploading this man!

  • @Jolar70
    @Jolar70 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The image stabilization filter is the WORST thing that ever happened to TH-cam! This was probably a VHS or Betamax copy of a 16MM TV print but watching software try to steady things like fire trucks moving or the title over a moving background is so distracting! Otherwise great film and thank you for uploading.

    • @sully801
      @sully801  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      It was an 8mm film shot off the TV, then played on those reel to reel projectors on a white wall. Then years later that filmed by a VHS camera, which eventually we able to be digitized. I've tried for years to get a copy from the BBC/Man alive without success. It only aired once.

  • @PinchTheBarb
    @PinchTheBarb 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    15:43 "Get up! 82 truck and the chief. Everybody go. Get up!"

  • @edwu8253
    @edwu8253 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    great video

  • @FDNY101202
    @FDNY101202 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Well currently there are 6 on a truck and 5or 6 on an engine... back then who knows... between budget cuts and lay offs and they used to ride on the tail board too.

  • @Vladimir-Putin-
    @Vladimir-Putin- ปีที่แล้ว

    Family friend was a fireman and toward the end the lieutenant for ladder 31 from 1969 or 1968 to 1984, he’s not doing too well so I’m gonna try and get his story before anything with him gets worse

  • @Wa3ypx
    @Wa3ypx 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bags of gas, The Sting Bar Youngstown, OH same thing three FFs burned.

  • @FyrFyter
    @FyrFyter 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thank goodness for fire sprinklers and better fire codes.

  • @freeamericausa1
    @freeamericausa1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Had the opportunity to meet Dennis Smith. The firefighter, and author of Report from Engine 82 back then. Too bad the quality of this film is as bad as it is. This was all prior to the IAFF and Congress finally recognizing the dangers of Firefighting as other than men sitting around, waiting for a fire.

  • @Wa3ypx
    @Wa3ypx 9 ปีที่แล้ว

    "H" apts. The apt in the "throat" is the death apt. hard to get tower ladders positioned there.

  • @coleman4840
    @coleman4840 7 ปีที่แล้ว

    I got a code 3 model of 82 engine. Good shit

  • @wannabenj
    @wannabenj 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    How many men where assigned to each truck? Looks like 8 per truck

  • @doranbaltus
    @doranbaltus 11 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Back when NYC looked more like Detroit than a real city.

  • @MermaidsSecretCOM
    @MermaidsSecretCOM 8 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Sorry, breathing not bearing. Auto correct again!

  • @06alwilliams
    @06alwilliams 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Those were old school hard core firemen no scba's, masks or anything lol

  • @TheDebonheir1
    @TheDebonheir1 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    how many guys were assigned to each company back then?

    • @sully801
      @sully801  7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      The engines were running an officer and 5, the ladders an officer and 6.

  • @freeamericausa1
    @freeamericausa1 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That was also at a time when the men rode the back step, and often became the target of hoods who hated the Establishment...cops, and firefighters.

  • @eliguaapologynotaccepted7928
    @eliguaapologynotaccepted7928 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I wonder if one of those children playing became Fireman's🙄

  • @ketinmickow2478
    @ketinmickow2478 5 ปีที่แล้ว

    25:07 what was his toast he gave? i cant make it out exactly

    • @sully801
      @sully801  5 ปีที่แล้ว

      To all of you eat, but you don't eat without me. It's an old Irish thing.

  • @iverar
    @iverar 10 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Why didn't NYC just bulldoze and get rid of these abandoned buildings?

    • @steve1978ger
      @steve1978ger 9 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      +iverar - probably they were private property?

    • @iverar
      @iverar 9 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      +steve1978ger I am pretty sure they were. I think the owners of these buildings often had them torched to collect the insurance money since they couldn't get any tenants in them. But it seems like NYC could have told these building owners to clean their properties up or they would be forfeited to the city.

  • @fireguye4
    @fireguye4 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    this is when the men were men. wooden ladders and iron lungs

  • @wannabenj
    @wannabenj 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    It's freakin amazing.These guys bust their asses and put their lives on the line daily and yet they get shit pay,shit hours and on top of that they have to pay out of their own pockets for food and drinks.I would think that would be a perk food.But when they have budget issues who is the first to get laid off.The Fireman.Also they close houses and transfer calls blocks away but yet response time is better.Can't figure that one out.

  • @Dproud2700
    @Dproud2700 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    What has ever happened to Dennis Smith?

    • @hfd268
      @hfd268 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Became and author retired and still does talks around the U.S

    • @HikingBob
      @HikingBob 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Sadly, he died today (1/22/2022).

  • @jeffskene42
    @jeffskene42 7 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    is 82 the nut house or animal house

    • @sully801
      @sully801  7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      La Casa Grande, The Big House.