What a beautiful truck USA needs to get hip when it comes to firetrucks Canada # ☝🏾 I am not putting America down, but America needs to keep up with the times… 🇺🇸

I love it just beautiful and a Mack Pinnacle too ❤❤

She (Tower 1) is nothing short but magnificent and majestic. The City of Toronto and the Toronto Fire Department have acquired it for numerous very valid reasons: because they care about their citizens, their firefighters, and they want to be prepared. Grenfell tower was the worst fire in decades and I'm sure the London Fire Brigade would have given multiple limbs to have one or two of those appliances in service at the time being (they did in the aftermath, however the apparatus is not quite comparable - ladders instead of towers to facilitate mass evacuations). The exact same boom (Bronto F70RPX) is in service with the Cuerpo de Bomberos in Madrid, Spain (albeit on a Scania chassis - hard to find pics of it nowadays). Completely agree with the point of view that frequent and realistic training fabulously increase the odds for easy(ier) battles against our common enemy: fire. I can truly imagine that as a firefighter being hard at work and having no idea if you can manage this particular crisis, seeing her entering the stage rises your spirit skyhigh. Well done, you guys and girls! Keep calm, remain low and stay safe!!!

For everyone hating that they used the new tower 1. Yes it's overkill for the job and yes it is an obnoxious piece of machinery but in all reality this piece of equipment is still new to the operators and they need training on it. And it still costs the city and it's people the same amount of money whether it is sitting in the equipment bay or being used and training the crew. Again I completely agree that this machine is extremely obnoxious but they paid for it to be used so go and use it.

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Yes thank you for this

@JS-zb1vv

Жыл бұрын

90% of North America fire trucks are obnoxious even though I like them they are way flashy and not truly practical or purpose built . Compared to the rest of the world. This was a purpose built truck. It has a place. Just another tool!!

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

@@JS-zb1vv I don’t work for Toronto fire nor am I related. My option is yea it won’t be needed very often but it is a very cool truck

@colinkulasik1128

Жыл бұрын

@@JS-zb1vv personally my favorite it the tiller followed closely but the rear pivot ladder, both of which are going the way of the dodo 🦤

@JS-zb1vv

Жыл бұрын

@@colinkulasik1128I’m at a small city department in Georgia. We have a 105ft mid mount tower ladder . All of these trucks have a use .

This is a perfect chance for the firefighters to learn the machine inside and out. Not when there is a real need for the unit . They are not doing this to justify the cost. This not a parade piece, nor something just to say look what we've got.

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Yes that was another resent they brought the truck aswell it goes to all 3rd alarm fires

Epic! I saw Tower 1 in previous videos, but you’re lucky to record this rare beast.

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you glad you enjoyed!!

@CWFLAEMOFC

Жыл бұрын

@@fireresponsevideography You’re welcome and Happy New Years!

and there she is. There is a little footage of Tower 1 on youtube, but it is all from the demos and her arrival in the city

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Yup this is the only videos of it in use at an actual emergency

@shaneharrisnj3484

Жыл бұрын

@@fireresponsevideography now, hopefully someone can catch this thing responding at wherever it's stationed at.

Great video, liked and shared 🧑🏻👍🏻🚒

Amazing catch!

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!

Amazing catch

Thats also so much more reach than almost anything in the US! 230'? Got dang...

That is one impressive looking tower ladder.

Impressive. In the US that is not a Tower Ladder. It is an Aerial Platform. A Tower or Tower Ladder has a designed means for routine ascending and descending when the boom is deployed.

@dbyers3897

8 ай бұрын

This thing is in Canada, not the US.

@tsaffran

6 ай бұрын

they are called Bronto's

Is that a Bronto boom? They make them for both utilities & fire services. My employer has a 200 foot Bronto

What a beauty

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Agreed

what do the numbers in the description mean? these ones --> 1665/250/114'

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

I guess like the make and model

@peterserio255

Жыл бұрын

I believe 1665 refers to the pump flow in gallons, the 250 refers to the actual water tank on the unit and 114' is the length of the ladder/platform. You will notice that the big bronto has 0/0/230'. That means it doesn't have a pump, no tank but has a reach of 230'

How wide is the stabilizer spread? Looks perfect for narrow streets 🤨

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Ye it barely fitted on this street

Is tower one still the tallest apparatus in North America?

Damm, how high can that thing get?

230 foot tower at a house fire.👍

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Yup

@johnwrigley1624

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but it functions like any other truck. It doesn't have to go to 230'...........

No Federal Q's? C'mon now!! Thats a sacrilege...

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Yup or sucks but Toronto trucks are very bare bones compared to other trucks

I love the "no trucks:" sign and yet this heavy monster keeps on driving down the road. Hopefully these guys know the weight limits of all those Toronto streets, otherwise Tower 1 will need a crane for help.

@RyanPatrick77

Жыл бұрын

This comment made my brain hurt.

@rustblade5021

10 ай бұрын

you have no clue what you're talking about, the "no trucks" signs are to reduce noise in a residential area

Is that a bronto?

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Yes it is

@SocialistDistancing

Жыл бұрын

@@fireresponsevideography I've never seen one on a conventional truck. Also, the only other one that I've seen in Canada was in Calgary. They had one but has retired about a decade or longer ago. It was on a tandem tandem chassis cab toward, if I'm not mistaken. I can't remember it's reach. I think 75m. I stopped at the Calgary station where it lived and got up close inspection of it. Took a bunch of pics.. I don't know where it went ,but I assume up for auction. Toronto's unit is the first conventional tandem tridem unit that I've seen in North America. Pretty impressive.

Still not using the new tower 333?

@markappelman576

Жыл бұрын

I was at mechanical last Wed and the new one was sitting there. Seems every new truck they get lately has problems and spends months at mechanical.

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

@@markappelman576 yup sucks both new Air lights are at mechanical

@markappelman576

Жыл бұрын

@@fireresponsevideography Surpised but not really. I saw 421 there when I was there. 231 must've just gone in because I thought I saw it last Saturday.

That’s some expensive lighting lol

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Oh the truck for sure

where were they going the moon

Disregarding it's notoriety, the same thing happens when it's moving or parked...your average human baboon stands, drools and stares at the pretty lights.

They used a $3 million tower truck as a light pole. Sounds like Toronto Fire is trying to justify the cost of having bought this beast. That little media session at the end of the video just reinforces it, lol.

@seanconlin8712

Жыл бұрын

Using Tower 1 as a light tower made the scene safer for all the personnel on site. That should be justification enough. As it was it was a set of set of six row houses the probably used used the thermal camera in the basket for the incident commander to get a good tactical picture. The media interview was the incident commander giving an update nothing mentioned about tower one.

@heavyhaulage1

Жыл бұрын

If it only ends up saving one life in its whole service, surely that justifies its cost?

@hawky225

Жыл бұрын

@@heavyhaulage1 $3 million can buy 5 fully equipped ambulances. Surely that'd be more cost effective if you're trying to maximize the number of lives saved.

@hawky225

Жыл бұрын

@@seanconlin8712 I'm sure he chose to use Tower 1 as the principal background for his interview purely by coincidence. And Toronto Fire has mutiple apparatuses that could have performed the same function on a row of three story townhouses, one of which was also shown pulling up on scene. You don't have to try and defend it. End of the day, just like any other publicly funded entity, they have to use it to justify the cost to a budget committee, else they lose out on future funding.

@heavyhaulage1

Жыл бұрын

@@hawky225 5 ambulance can’t save someone from 70 metres up?

Have to get it up so they can justify the purchase 😆

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

Actually so they can get used to the truck, how it operates, and to just get more training on it. So yea no tor really wrong

@seabass3104

Жыл бұрын

@@fireresponsevideography sure. I’ve worked for a city department for 15 years. I know how these things work. But whatever you need to tell yourself.

@fireresponsevideography

Жыл бұрын

@@seabass3104 I don’t care if they use it or not, it was a cool sight to see. And tower 1 goes to all 3rd alarm fires.

It's like a heavy wrecker mixed with a fire truck