Cincinnati Fire Department 1950s

This is a home movie my Father made at one of his first fire company assignments on the Cincinnati Fire Department in the early to mid 1950s. Shows Seagrave Fire Engine 6 and Truck 15 at the corner of now AdamXing and Riverside Drive (then Pearl and Martin) in Cincinnati Ohio. This building is still in use as an Office Building at the bottom of the Mt. Adams steps. My Dad was operating the camera mostly but is in the video climbing the 100" aerial ladder and waving at the top. I retired from the Cincinnati Fire Department in 2011. Please let me know what you think about the way things were for Fire Departments in the '50s :)

[@chiefjim8178]

My dad tillered an exact same Seagrave , I miss those days. As a kid it was always a thrill to see that ladder swing around the city.

[@blainenodes8182]

What a great post/video!!grew up in St Paul 1949,we had 5 seagrave ladders,got 30 yrs service from all,potholes,salt,snow,open cabs,just a sentimental view from St Paul...thanks...👍👍

[@mattbailey576]

My Dad and Grandfather were both Cincinnati Firemen. I got a picture of that house from the 1950's with that same truck out front with the aerial ladder up. I know my Father was never there but maybe my Grandfather was. I don't know the year of that firetruck, maybe it was the late 40's because my Grandfather was a captain at the house in Carthage most of the 50's, his last house before he retired in 1960. My Dad came on in 1950 and retired in 1978. He just died at 93 years old. Second oldest retired Fireman in the state of Ohio when he died. All his friends from the Fire Dept. have been dead for years. His last house was Carthage to. The retirement house, well at least it was then.

[@robertbroughton5618]

Finally something interesting from the old hometown. Although I wasn't born until 1964, I still remember E6, and T15, disbanded in the early 80's. Of all the major incidents that has happened in cincy, The who concert tragedy, The Cincinnati commercial warehouse fire, etc, the April 3, 1974 tornado sticks out. After the vortex decimated Saylor Park, it traveled northeast, where my brother, and I saw it from behind the liberal grocery store at Warsaw, and Mansion avenues. I hope there will be more of these in the near future.

[@DowntownDeuce2]

It is sad that modern Aerials cannot go up as fast as a 70-year-old apparatus....

[@Finnmarken91]

More than likely it's probably for technicalities.

[@DowntownDeuce2]

@@Finnmarken91 Repeat that in English, please. Technicalities? What do you mean?

[@richardmotzer3095]

My dad used to be the ATO of Truck 15, before going to the Truck 3 at Eastern and Strader.

[@justpulse]

cabrio trucks, no traffic xD