Fire Call (1952)

Fire call.
London.
C/U alarm bell ringing. M/S controller at panel. C/U lit sign reading 'fire', C/U code letters lighting up. Good low angle shot as the firemen slide down the pole. M/S fireman shouting orders and flicking switches to control traffic lights. M/S firemen mounting engine. M/S as one pulls out. M/S as fireman jumps on engine and drops his shoe ready to put his boots on. C/U engine approaching camera. M/S as they swing it around and go down street. C/U bell ringing and firemen donning helmets.
M/S fire engine going down street, C/U's driver and crew. M/S as they speed down the street and right of island. C/U fireman ringing bell. Various shots at they continue down the street at speed past other vehicles. C/U driver. Various shots as they speed along. M/S of three engines passing the camera. C/U fireman at scene using walkie-talkie. Various shots as they fight the large fire and advance with the hoses. L/S wreckage of the building.
FILM ID:1387.21
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[@JamesSmith-ro2tz]

They certainly realised that speed of attendance was the essence of quick response. No dressing nicely before mounting.

[@themowhillsvolunteer]

BRILLIANT!!!!

[@RobloxFoxStudios]

Yep

[@bottleandscrap7626]

FA NATASTCIVC

[@StuartDavies]

Twenty years after this film was made I joined up as a part-time fireman.

[@kingmichealthefirstofroman2278]

What county?

[@JoshDoesAmazingContent20-bi3ty]

You cannot ignore, they're the heroes next door.

[@fisherman501]

That bell sounds great.

[@Roddy556]

It really does.

[@Tauraco00]

❤amazing

[@RikodiusRex]

Dis awsum

[@bottleandscrap7626]

When London was a real palce

[@Ken_Norman]

🇬🇧 Interesting isn’t it that back in 1957 the turnout time from call to wheels turning was under 30 seconds. If you watch fire service CZcams videos today there seems to be a lackadaisical approach throughout, with personnel strolling around the appliances, nonchalantly putting on their gear, then turning out in what seems to be their own sweet time and yet, as soon as they hit the road, it’s all flashing lights, sirens and an appearance of haste. Don’t get it. If my arse was on fire I’d like to think the fire service was doing everything they could to get to with as much haste as possible.

[@Stargazzer811]

We have a saying here in the fire service of the US: Slow is Smooth, Smooth is Fast. If you slow down a little, you're less likely to make a mistake, like forgetting an important piece of gear, or slipping and falling in the bay, thus delaying your company's response as they now have to treat your head wound. Plus, many of the videos you see on YT here are only between 1 and 3 minutes long, and depending on the call turnout is within 45 seconds to 120 seconds of the video start. If there is a fire, and especially if someone is trapped inside a burning building, I can almost guarantee you'll see a less than 60 second turnout.

[@patrickcannell2258]

Before OHSHA got to the fire brigade.

[@Michelle_Schu-blacka]

That looks like it could be Wandsworth, heading toward St. John's Hill.

[@danielferstendig]

The sodor fire brigade.

[@bluelightwilliam]

Good Old H22 Lambeth

[@RyanLeiby]

Why did the firefighters manually ring the bell on the fire truck instead of activating the strobe lights and sirens

[@nevillemason6791]

There were no such things as sirens. My local fire station (now closed) was the one in The Beatles song 'Penny Lane'. The fire engines only had manual bells right up to about 1967 when two tone horns were fitted. At 0:27 you can see at the bottom of the windscreen one of a pair of flashing orange warning lights. These indicated an emergency vehicle but were replaced by blue flashing domes in the early 1960s as they were confused with orange indictors which had replaced 'trafficators' (a small arm that swung out and lit up to indicate a left or right turn).

[@variegatus4674]

Ryan, you are the dumbest I've seen yet. How did you think the nuclear physicists calculated stuff? With their windows 11 Laptop? I think not.

[@Londonfogey]

@@nevillemason6791 Interesting, I assumed fire engines had Winkworth electric bells (the type used on police cars up until the 1960s).

[@RyanLeiby]

@nevillemason6791 well that’s a different way to warn regular car drivers and pedestrians that there’s an emergency, I know this video was made in 1952 but I thought there was always sirens on the fire trucks because I watched this video on CZcams from a Christmas Story where a kid sticks his tongue to a frozen flag pole at school which happened in 1940 and the teacher called the fire department and when I saw the fire trucks rolling up, I could hear the sirens going off on the fire truck

[@user-lz3vp8rq2s]

Some brigades used US police car type sirens in the 1950s and 60s until two tone horns were adopted nationally. A preserved Cheshire Dennis tender from the 1950s has a US police car type siren but the European type horns were adopted to prevent confusion with air raid sirens .

[@bottleandscrap7626]

Even go on wrong way streets

[@DidithChiong-pk4jo]

In the uk. People drive on the other side

[@wilfredoramirez8772]

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[@user-rh5rz6nd4p]

Very good very nice I like rice

[@unionpacificrailroadcrossi9336]

normal fire truck in ohio

[@Gibraltar999]

They actually used to look like that in the 40s,50s & 60s in the uk

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