Boston Fire Department, 1930's

October 6, 2009. This video was complied from files in the Stillman Fire Collection, Perlinger Archives and put together to make this presentation represent how a huge building fire might have been fought in Boston, Massachusetts in the early 1930s. Note for general interest and comments that at 2:16 a relatively new American LaFrance pumper has a hand-crank siren and a Roto Ray warning light. However at 3:03 a similar ALF is shown with an electo-mechanical siren. Obviously, I added the sound effects to this video, but the original film was silent. If you wish to see the film as it was made you will need to turn your computer speakers off.

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Comment by Roy Walker on October 8, 2009 at 2:41pm: Boy! this makes you realise where the term smokeaters comes from. THINK OF ALL THE BROTHERS ALIVE TODAY. thanks to the invention and implementation of S. C. B. A. Good film to show why we don't " always do it that way ".