When Men Were Men and Iron Lungs Were In

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Permalink Reply by Ben Waller on March 5, 2011 at 9:59am

A photo of FDNY Rescue Company 1 donning some early (read "antique") Draeger masks is here.

Those guys rode to work in this apparatus - a 1914 Cadillac!

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Permalink Reply by Ray J on March 5, 2011 at 10:25am

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Permalink Reply by Mike Schlags (Captain Busy) Retd on March 5, 2011 at 12:45pm

Don't be chicken to use respiratory protection!

CBz

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Permalink Reply by Just Plain Craig Moyer on March 5, 2011 at 7:33pm

In 1978 when I joined we had two....not on each engine but total in the fire house. Plus 2 spare bottles. Until we got a new engine in 82 did we have 2 more. had to add brackets so we could have 4 on the engine. So that made 6. Finally got smart and added 4 in a compartment, in 86

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Permalink Reply by Shareef Abdu Nur on March 9, 2011 at 2:46pm

Look how far we have come. We owe it to all of those who came before us and those who are yet to come to be the very best at what we do and to keep getting better and stop dying in vain.

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Permalink Reply by Jack/dt on March 9, 2011 at 2:54pm

Yeah, back when men were men, the old ways

were so much better than the new ways

and safer too.

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Permalink Reply by Asst Chief Tim Cook on March 9, 2011 at 3:04pm

Try one generation EARLIER. We had Scott 1's. All two of them. I was the first generation HERE to use the device regularly.

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Permalink Reply by clay pittman on March 9, 2011 at 10:26pm

we still have 5 of those old msa elephant trunk scba on front line duty boy it suz when you come out for a bottle change and they take off that nice carbon bottle and replace it with a STEEL tank.