Firefighting in the Horse-Drawn Era - Getting There (K3 001)
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- Опубликовано: 4 сен 2024
- This is one of approximately 30 short videos produced by the Aurora Regional Fire Museum for their exhibit "Getting There • Getting Water • Getting Rescued 150 years of the tools and technology used to fight fires and save lives
This is all true. My father was born in 1898 and was a volunteer fire chief in a small town in Ohio. He told me that the horses that originally pulled these things that he knew of loved to pull them and got so excited when the fire bell rang that they would run and put their heads through the horse collars ready to be hooked up and tear out for the fire.
The horses are constantly so full of adrenaline, and just wanting ACTION.
They just loved the action, the smell of smoke and fire.
Unfortunately is adrenaline (and cortisol) constantly running through your body not healthy.
Lots of them died early.
I heard stories about retired fire horses, who broke out of their stables when they heard the bell of the fire alarm at the fire station.
They came running to the fire station, and wanted to be hooked up.
HORSES ... again the magnificent animals helping us thru ang through ...
This is the best video on RUclips.
I swear i watched the video three times. Its just so impressive what was done even back in the day. What is crazy is that even today, 30 seconds is still standard for firehouse exit.
Cities like New York take longer, on purpose, as they must send road guards out to stop traffic before the appliance rolls out.
Pretty cool! This is the first video I've ever seen of horse n buggy fire apparatus. My grandfather drove the last horse-drawn fire engine in Chicago in 1923.
The silent movie "The Third Alarm" tells the story of one old fire teamster and his animals, when the department converts to gasoline.
And then there is the cool stuff you find on youtube that just makes you go................
WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Those horses knew exactly what they had to do and were ready to charge out of there.
Doggies: there is no enough fuss and action going on, let's bark and jump around to add some :-)
The harness that you speak of (and show) was invented by George Hale, of the Kansas City, Mo Fire Department. It is also a fact, that they where able to get out in 30 seconds, while in most areas, it was closer to a minute or more.
Thanks for the great historical information.
Love seeing this. I've seen them racing down the street in many videos but never seen the rapid harnessing process. Amazing!
Awesome I can't wait to join the fire department
Would love seing a TV-Show about this era of Firefighting
Through a coal furnace in the basement, the fire kept steam going to boiler of the pumper. Imagine the heat in the firehouse in July and August even with vents closed off.
Yup. They had a sophisticated closed-loop system that kept hot water, just shy of boiling, circulating through the boiler. The fire box of the boiler was kept ready with kindling soaked in kerosene. Incredibly, it took a good engineer only slightly longer time to build pressure enough to flow water than modern pampers can get water flowing.
I'd love to learn more like these vids. Nice work great video
Engine 101 4th set of horses pulling in beginning! So, my great great grandfather and great grandfather, we’re both engine 101 Brooklyn ny. I have the original pictures of the entire department in uniform, for both of them, horses steam engine the building etc
So cool
Amazing video, thanx for posting
Ну вот кто влепил дизлайк? Такая кинохроника прекрасная!
Great video.
Where’s the dalmations that people talk about so much being with horse drawn firefighters