Joined the LFB on 11 Jul 1983 in the busy B div. aged 18 Retired now. Good times.

This was very probably the inspiration for 'London's Burning'. What a fantastic show.

@tigger1662003

Жыл бұрын

The inspiration was a writer called Jack Rosenthal who wrote the initial film, who used to drink in a pub with an off duty firefighter many years ago.

I was a firefighter in the 80s tough old job...cant even find my glasses these days !

@mikedaniel4577

3 жыл бұрын

Lots of respect sir!

@PibrochPonder

3 жыл бұрын

They are lowering the standards now to get more BAME and women in. That makes me feel nice and safe.

@plumduff3303

3 жыл бұрын

@@PibrochPonder and remember on station...could be tough especially when tied to a short extension ladder being blasted with a hose reel...different times...

@johnhendry6636

3 жыл бұрын

we all know that feeling

@ged3680

2 жыл бұрын

I was a Police Officer 1986-2016, the Fire Brigade were the emergency service that you could always trust to get the job done. Thank you sir. Hope you found your spectacles.

Feel really nostalgic now 27yrs on the run, 1974-2001 Lanarkshire FB through Strathclyde FB sounds are memorable

A station officer ,sub officer and leading fireman - the proper ranks, none of this crew ,watch or area manager shite, Brilliant videos mate

@firefighterleetiktok85

6 жыл бұрын

did you hear LFB are going back to that?

@TheWeepingDalek

5 жыл бұрын

Why does it matter.

@davidhack1974

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheWeepingDalek Don't forget FIREMEN, none of this PC firefighter rubbish.

@TheWeepingDalek

4 жыл бұрын

@@davidhack1974 what. The proper title is firefighter tho. You don't call a paramedic ambulance man do you?

@Biffo1262

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheWeepingDalek Because the fire service is a semi disciplined organisation not a commercial business. The rank to role was fine as it was now you have two separate pay grades and ranks with same rank markings. All very confusing and makes for far too many white hats at fires. All this was dreamt up by some overpaid commercial company employed to 'professionalise' the fire service and made a right balls up of it.

Love the sound of those Perkins V8 so gutsy

I was Blue Watch, Delta 2, Brierley Hill West Midlands. 1976 to 1978 then moved to NSW and rejoined there. So many memories watching this....great days and great friends made for life.

@adjo82

12 күн бұрын

My uncle worked at Delta 1 Oldbury, Delta 8 west Bromwich and Echo 9 Wednesbury when I was a kid in the 80s/90's. He then became Sub officer and moved over to Highgate in Birmingham. No longer with us, but remember him fondly.

13:07 combo of bell and two tones

Respect to all of you past present ❤ thank you ❤ you do ONE HELL of a JOB . Regards and RESPECT thank you❤😊❤😊

Doesn't take much to cause a lot of smoke. Went on a single story house with thick black smoke banked right to the floor. The home owner came home from a days work to find this. Turned out there was no fire. She had left the stove on low with a frying pan on that burner. In that frying pan she had left the all plastic spatula that she used that morning. That 1 spatula created enough smoke to fill the entry house with smoke so thick I could not see my hand in front of my face. Incredible really. After discovering this we just PPV the structure and called it a day.

Best thing I’ve watched in ages. Father was a firefighter in Bournemouth for many many years

@MrBonafida

4 жыл бұрын

Would love to know who he was, knew a lot of Bournemouth boys

I remember watching this as a child in 1983. Very gritty and insightful. Good old days, indeed.

@blablabluuuu

6 жыл бұрын

YelpBullhorn so does my father

13:38 the good old days.

When the fire brigade was actually good and a respected profession.

@CARLIN4737

4 ай бұрын

It still is...

@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361

2 ай бұрын

Failed the entrance exam, did you?

@Biffo1262

Ай бұрын

​@@CARLIN4737It doesn't get the respect it used to, nowhere near.

@Biffo1262

Ай бұрын

​@@throttlegalsmagazineaustra7361I don't think he's wrong quite honestly and there is certainly no call for your comment. He was just stating things ashe sees it.

I miss those LFB appliances.

That Dennis is beautiful, especially compared to the Dodge. Shame they replaced the wheeled escape with a 135 though.

That Dennis has the code name brave 301/302 which is 5 of bravo 251 and bravo 252 the call signs for the plot applicationes for blackwall in London's burning

I was 2 years old when this was made

Haha "You silly ol' bastard!" 13:38

Very good film!!

If you like this video watch a mini series set in the 90s called Merseyside firefighters .. worth a watch.

wow when was this aired? this came as a recommended video but glad i watched it. love the fact its come from the fire fighters involved. no over the top narations or silly incidental music masking dialogue etc. not like documentaries today

@heyabusa1

3 жыл бұрын

Absolutely. Couldnt agree more. Wouldn't I like to meet the grade one plonka that decided plastering 'music' across everything end to end and have a word with him.

@Matt-Durham

2 жыл бұрын

It aired in 1983/4

Remember turning out in the Dodges ..... they used to sway into the corners. Ours also had a cold start like a choke and use to over rev...sacred going through traffic lights

@isleofwighttransport

2 жыл бұрын

Do you remember the Dennis RS and the SS

@LtD973

Жыл бұрын

The dodge had the worst brakes too. Horrible to drive!

Sobering to think most are long retired...

@sebby324

4 жыл бұрын

Or even dead

Brilliant and brave men.

Ol' Dennis fire engines .. the best of the rest 👍

Knw quite a few firefighters through my lifesaving work with stjohn ambulance have been in some tricky situations bt nothing compared to what the fire brigade have to face risking their lives .nothing but respect for all of them.

Brilliant!!! Are there any other Lfb documentary’s from the 80s/90s apart from FIRE 1991 and shouts 1983, thanks for posting mate !!

@Landie_Man

4 жыл бұрын

There’s a Buckinghamshire fire and rescue one from 1995

0:12 vintage Dennis and Dodge engines turning out

The Gunvor is a ringer for Griff Rhys Jones

Wonder where these firemen are today. Hope they're all still alive and well 🙏🏽

@scousertom0388

2 жыл бұрын

Same here. If any of you are reading this, I hope you're all doing well. You are heroes.

@ezzyfiretv8922

2 жыл бұрын

@@scousertom0388 💯🙏🏼

@Gibraltar999

Жыл бұрын

They are in heaven 👼

@joshhoare2693

Жыл бұрын

My grandad is the station commander! Glad to say he’s alive and well

@deacida1282

Жыл бұрын

@@Gibraltar999 not my uncle luckily

The engine voice of Dodge fire engine remind me those truck had been used for goods lorries and the tankers but never used in fire service in Hong Kong while HKFSD wildly used Dennis on that time but also used Perkins engine, probably same engine had been used on Dodge?

On the last shout second pump nearly takes the appliance bay door off,quick braking action by the driver.

The stuff about the newbie down at the police station wouldn't happen now. There would be enquiries done, people suspended and sacked. Then people would have to talk to councillors ect. The same happened when I was in the Royal Navy. All the fun was taken out.

I wanted to be a firemen,but i dont like heights,scared of fire, faint at the sight of blood and have asthma, so shame really.

@nothanks5630

3 жыл бұрын

You can overcome everything bar the asthma, and if you're asthma is under control you can still join.

@LindaFirefighter03

2 ай бұрын

It is ok to be scared of something. It only becomes a problem when you act on those fears. Know lots of firefighter who hate small spaces, hate heights but its no problem. You be in charge of yourself and never give into your fears or they will control you.

Think this was the closest thing to a proper tv show about the brigade before London's Burning started 3 years later.

@TorontoJediMaster

6 жыл бұрын

I have a strong suspicion that this documentary is what inspired "London's Burning". Someone probably felt that the day-to-day happenings at a fire station would be an excellent show. I mean, this is even Blue Watch that's being featured.

@Mbard333

6 жыл бұрын

Ben Keat1998 The movie was aired 3 years after this in December 1986, the actual series didn't start until 1988

@benkeating4836

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mbard333 Yeah I am aware of that, I ain't that daft.

@Mbard333

3 жыл бұрын

@@benkeating4836 you’ve replied to this after 2 years and you said it started 3 years later 🤣

@benkeating4836

3 жыл бұрын

@@Mbard333 It did start 3 years later as in the movie aired 86, this was 83.

Hi messroomh6 You have an great collection of firefighter videos it's been so interesting to see all the difference videos Looking for a video that might have been one of your ones ? It was a video where a pump like a Bedford TK or Dennis had crashed and had to be rescued by a heavy rescue vehicle

@messroomh6

3 жыл бұрын

Andrew Diack That doesn’t ring a bell I am afraid.

@andrewdiack3333

3 жыл бұрын

@@messroomh6 No worries messroomh6 I just found it today it's definitely worth watch it's very interesting thanks for getting back to me I appreciate it kzread.info/dash/bejne/mnx2x8Gjc67Ac6g.html

@LondonEmergency999

8 ай бұрын

Theres a video of a Essex SS that'd rolled over being rescued by the Essex FRS Scammell wrecker.

200 gallons gives 30 minutes on one hose reel?? It must be dribbling out of the nozzle!

@LindaFirefighter03

2 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing! LOL. Wouldn't last a minute these days. Seems they mostly use a trashline. What I wonder is ....I never saw a single firefighter use gloves. Certainly they must have had them back then! Those were the days. Time to come out of the structure when your ears start to burn.

@Biffo1262

Ай бұрын

General purpose gloves were issued to everyone in my brigade, Greater Manchester. High pressure hose reels are by far the most used extinguishing tool. A high pressure hose reel can deal perfectly well with a single room fire, even if well alight and two hose reels deals with most domestic dwelling fires and car fires. The big advantage is their high pressure, 150psi and their ready use, always ready charged with water. Water is on the fire in seconds. You also only need pull of as much as you need, no kinks and easy to handle. It mystifies me why the USA doesn't use them to the same extent. The Dutch fire service has gone one better with larger diameter reels and fire suppressing chemicals. A ultra high pressure lance is now the common tool for house fires. It suppresses the fire after cutting a hole in even brick exterior walls. Fire is suppressed and cooled down very, quickly enabling a rapid and safe entry for BA teams. The down side is that management sem to think these innovations can replace firefighters and even reduce the number of appliances and stations which simply isn't the case. Quite frankly most brigades in the UK are dangerously under manned.

@Biffo1262

Ай бұрын

​@@LindaFirefighter03Aye. Blistered ears was your badge of office back in those days of no flash hoods. The thing about flash hoods and Nomex gloves is that they resulted in quite serious burn injuries as the took away the feeling of the back of the hands and ear lobes blistering until it was too late. They have caused at least one death that I know of due to heat syncope. The body sweat simply cannot evaporate to cool you if none of your skin is exposed. It takes regular heat training to recognise the onset of heat exhaustion and if left too late it can be and has need fatal in my former brigade.

Wow a bell in the 80s never knew

@user-TROOPER42

5 жыл бұрын

I know I showed this to my dad it made him feel so old. Bell's are more better than sirens in my opinion.

@user-TROOPER42

5 жыл бұрын

@Ian Wildon have they

@user-TROOPER42

5 жыл бұрын

@Ian Wildon I never knew that

@neildahlgaard-sigsworth3819

5 жыл бұрын

Chris Lates they were still fitted to Cleveland Fire Brigades engines in this period. They were deemed to be less frightening to animals than rwo-tone air horns.

@elwolf8536

5 жыл бұрын

@Ian Wildon big ben for massive ones?

Loving this documentary. I love seeing the older uniforms and equipment. I do wonder about that one driver with the really long hair and beard. I honestly would've thought grooming standards at the time were a little more severe.

@rub1tan679

6 жыл бұрын

Chris Whitbread Yea they were ........I stood buy there mid eighties he looked a right cock . Bit like David Seaman thought he looked great but in reality looked stupid .

@dirtydave2691

4 жыл бұрын

Looked like a roadie for Motor Head.

@Biffo1262

4 жыл бұрын

At the time he joined which was probably pre 1974 there were no regulations about hair length. Those joining from '74 onwards were required to ' have a tidy haircut and the hair must not touch the collar'. Hence you has the older serving members exercising their 'long hair' rights. To be fair I saw a lot worse than that.

the real londons burning

8:05 unusual mask for BA, what was the difference between those and the one that covers your nose now?

@Zackislivid

4 жыл бұрын

Its all they had there uniforms diddent protect them like now

@Zackislivid

4 жыл бұрын

And thats normal ba mask

@Zackislivid

4 жыл бұрын

Oh no never mind

@lastofthemouchers8873

3 жыл бұрын

@@Zackislivid they were pretty good masks, you could have facial hair and the vision was great. The new ones had a better seal though and obviously didnt fog.

@isleofwighttransport

2 жыл бұрын

Those were the old BA sets used in the 80s

Same issues then and now with drivers getting in the way... and idiots doing stuff like smoke bombs in phone boxes etc.

BEE BOO BEE BOO

@Zackislivid

4 жыл бұрын

Or just blues and twos but for the pump its blues and bells

What happened to the barber

24:24 Out the way Guv...

Bells in the 1980s. That what proper fire engines sounds like.

@Biffo1262

4 жыл бұрын

@Adrian Heath They aren't as effective and the sound doesn't carry like two tone AIR horns. Electronic sirens never were as effective and that goes for two tone electronic as well.

@thepurdychannel8866

4 жыл бұрын

@@Biffo1262 what about the rumbler siren they are being installed on all police cars ambulances and fire trucks in the uk now now all thats left now is to install q sirens on the firetrucks

@Zackislivid

4 жыл бұрын

@Adrian Heath your americans sirens cause ear loss and there not affective we have changed what you think we still fight fires in rubber and wool we have a better fire crews in the uk than the us your helmets are inpracticl your rigs are to big the uniforms are asbestos and the visor on your helmets only protect your eyes when our uniform has curved helmets microfiber fire proof tuxs we have led lights our rigs are fast and skinny and our sirens are not loud

@Zackislivid

4 жыл бұрын

@Adrian Heath yea no hard fealing yeah

In Bath and Bristol at this time, not about haircuts, just do it!

13:00

Shaaat's

wheres sicknote

@harrilewis18

3 жыл бұрын

Indeed

@Zackislivid

3 жыл бұрын

Ikr where tate

@stevedickson5853

3 жыл бұрын

Hes off sick

Could someone please explain where the term "shouts" originated from for those of us across the pond? Thanks!

@david-stewart

7 жыл бұрын

I am just guessing but a 'shout' is to be called,. 'Shouted out', 'called out'.

@ontherunplmr1218

6 жыл бұрын

Along with " On the Run " originated in Victorian England, even before Horse Drawn Fire Engines when some Fire ladders were pushed by hand somebody would run ahead shouting to make way for the Firemen and " On the Run" started when Fire Engines were pulled by horses, the Fire Station floor would have a slight lift so that when the steam pump was ready to go with chocks applied to the wheels, the horses would be harnessed to the pump and when the chocks were removed the weight of the Fire Engine would move on its own , meaning the horses did not need to pull against a dead weight when they left the station, the fire engine was already "On the Run" still used today meaning that an appliance is ready to go

@YelpBullhorn

6 жыл бұрын

On The Run Plmr... thanks for that. I knew the bare bones of the two expressions, but your explanation has filled many holes. Very insightful.

@ontherunplmr1218

6 жыл бұрын

Your welcome take care out there

@Biffo1262

4 жыл бұрын

Long before telephones some cities employed Watchmen whose job was to patrol the most dangerous parts of the city for fire. All they has was a rattle or whistle and they would run to the fire station and shout fire, fire on the way. Hence turning out on a shout!

U do a relly good job on KZread keep up there good work on KZread mate u do a relly good job on KZread hove a good day mate u do a relly good job on KZread mate hove a good day mate form greg Bouchard keep up there good work on KZread hove a good day mate form greg Bouchard

B30 be dirty

Stop cab 46 first strike J25

What happens if an LFB fireman ram through cars and escape met police or hit them with the fire truck? Will armed response team be able to defeat them?

Gill is now a brigade scab and traitor to the brigade.

@jjm0502

8 жыл бұрын

And where did you get that info?

@EnidAgnusDei

8 жыл бұрын

I know don't you worry

@mortgagewizard40

7 жыл бұрын

he is head of finance and procurement for lfb, or something similar

@firejam78

4 жыл бұрын

It will probably to benefit his pocket once he retires which is unfortunate as he sounds like a decent bloke on this video

@Biffo1262

4 жыл бұрын

I very much doubt he cares what you call him.

That bell constantly ringing is so fucking annoying. Get their attention then shut it down Jesus!