FDNY Bronx / Manhattan recordings from the 70s on Youtube

[radionx]

Just listened to it. Hope the fighters got a good salary.

Must have been quite a special zone.

 

[MStep]

Just listened to it. Hope the fighters got a good salary.

Must have been quite a special zone.

Those were the "good ole days" when the Bronx was burning. Mostly landlords burning down vacant tenements for insurance money. Then that trend slowly started to spread to Brooklyn. I remember Engine Company 283 pulling up first due to the vicinity of Rockaway Avenue and Linden Blvd in Brooklyn and upon his arrival screaming for a full fifth alarm to be transmitted.

To the credit of the FDNY dispatchers and Supervisors ,most of this traffic was handled manually, in pre-Computer Assisted Dispatch days, using mostly "running sheets" and chip boards.

God bless the FDNY.

Perhaps this thread should be moved to the NYC forum.

 

[IC-R20]

Those were the "good ole days" when the Bronx was burning. Mostly landlords burning down vacant tenements for insurance money. Then that trend slowly started to spread to Brooklyn. I remember Engine Company 283 pulling up first due to the vicinity of Rockaway Avenue and Linden Blvd in Brooklyn and upon his arrival screaming for a full fifth alarm to be transmitted.

To the credit of the FDNY dispatchers and Supervisors ,most of this traffic was handled manually, in pre-Computer Assisted Dispatch days, using mostly "running sheets" and chip boards.

God bless the FDNY.

Perhaps this thread should be moved to the NYC forum.

No it shouldn't since it's relevant to all old school scanning. I love chip boards.