Fire engine

It is a different kind of live with it episode today.

Have you ever thought about the tech inside fire trucks? Hey everybody, welcome back to another episode of Live With It.

I am Sarah Lane, and this is the show where the DTNS family of folks talks about a platform, a gadget, a service, anything that we've lived with long enough that we want to tell you about it.

So you might want to live with it as well, or maybe not.

Yeah.

So I know that you are pretty well versed in the idea of an electric fire truck.

And I know a lot of people out there wouldn't even have thought like, oh, we have EV fire trucks.

So what goes into that? What are the pros and cons?

Now he's all ready to go.

Stands deep in the batter box, and Fire Trucks commences to pitch to him, and it's a good called strike.

And Virgil Trucks, undoubtedly the sentimental favorite today because he's scarcely a week out of the United States Navy.

Flips a called strike in over the outside corner to Mr. Hack.

He won a total of 30 games for the Tigers.

He's very popular here.

And of course, as I mentioned earlier, just being discharged from the Navy, great many people are pulling for old fire trucks.

He was born in Birmingham, Alabama.

Nice.

The guy said, "No." "Okay, then let me drive the firetruck." That's awesome.

Firetruck wouldn't be sick, would it? I'll tell you what, driving one of those big, like- Yeah ...

firetrucks that you gotta drive the back around, driving around Doylestown would be a problem.

[laughs] Oh, yeah.

Who is Rosenbauer?

So they make firetrucks for the world.

Firetrucks.

V- v- very...

I mean, there's firetrucks for things you never even thought about, right? The military has firetrucks.

In 1866, an act for the establishing of a fire brigade within the metropolis came into operation.

by this act the associated fire insurance companies handed over their establishments to the metropolitan board of works eighteen months later the staff and appliances of the royal society for the protection of life from fire were also taken over by permission of parliament at the same time a salvage corps was formed to take charge of property at the time of fire in eighteen eighty nine the control of the fire brigade passed from the metropolitan board of works into the hands of the london county council the post rendered vacant by the death of braidwood was ably filled by captain shaw who held the important position as chief of the metropolitan fire brigade for about thirty years he entirely revolutionised the means of dealing with fires on the larger scale and succeeded in infusing into the men under his control a spirit of enthusiasm equal to his own his resignation caused much regret especially among members of the brigade captain simons held the post for a time then commander wells r n was appointed chief officer for the protection of london at the present time with its area of one hundred and twenty one square miles its five hundred thousand houses and nearly five million of inhabitants there is a force of upwards of seven hundred firemen with one hundred and fifty fire engines two hundred and twenty four fire escapes and about forty miles of hose the whole metropolis is divided into four districts convenient in size and position in each district there are a number of fire stations where engines and escapes are kept with firemen always ready to dash out at a moment's notice to fight the flames for such a service as that of the fire brigade it is of the utmost importance that every man should be sound in wind and limb no one can become a fireman who has not been a sailor and the severe tests to which the men are subjected make it impossible for any but the strongest men to join the brigade The uniform of our fire warriors consists of a tunic and trousers of dark blue cloth.

On the shoulders of the tunic there are epaulettes or straps of metal to protect the wearer from blows from falling timber and the like.

A pair of stout leather boots reaching halfway to the knee complete that part of the outfit.

round his waist the fireman wears a belt and pouch in which he carries an axe for breaking down doors the helmet which is the most important part of the fireman's dress is made of brass the front peak shades the eyes without interfering with the sight and the back peak is made to cover the neck and ears in such a way that while a man is thus protected from injury by the falling of molten lead slates and the like his hearing is in no way interfered with the comb on the top of the helmet is so constructed that it can bear a very heavy blow and the projecting end of the comb and that of the front peak are arranged so that when a man falls forward they both strike the ground before any part of his face the helmet is made in several parts so that when accidents happen the damaged part can be taken out and replaced with little expense all the parts are riveted together and there is no solder or other substance used which might melt in the great heat to which the men are exposed year after year we have reason to appreciate and to admire the splendid efforts of our fire brigades throughout the country the courage and skill of the men in making their way about burning buildings for the purpose of directing their hose or of saving life are worthy of the highest praise Their life is one of constant and terrible peril, but they do their duty as cheerfully and willingly as they do it well.

chapter two fire engines the history and progress of appliances for extinguishing fires is very remarkable and full of interest china from time immemorial has been acquainted with fire engines in one form or another they were employed by the romans and are referred to by several latin writers but we have no account of their construction neither do we know to what extent they were employed we also read of leathern bags with pipes attached from which water was projected by squeezing the bags and in the building accounts of the city of augsburg in fifteen eighteen mention is made of instruments for fires and water syringes useful for fires coming to our own country we find that our ancestors were not furnished with such means of extinguishing fires as the great number of wooden buildings required up till the end of the seventeenth century hand squirts were the only machines used it will of course be understood that the squirt was not of schoolboy dimensions but so large that it required three men to work it these squirts were made of brass and contained about four quarts of water two men held the handles at the sides and dipped the nozzle into a bucket they then raised it to a proper angle while a third man forced up the piston thus discharging the water this process was repeated after each discharge so clumsy an apparatus could have been of but little service in the fearful conflagrations to which our old wood-built towns were subject the first record of a fire engine is that of one used in nuremberg in sixteen fifty seven it had a water cistern and was drawn by two horses it required twenty-eight men to work it and is said to have thrown a jet of water an inch in diameter to a height of eighty feet this engine was afterwards improved by two brothers dutchmen named van de heide by the year seventeen forty these engines had been brought to such a pitch of perfection that by their means water might be forced up to a surprising height with almost incredible swiftness in a large and continued stream by the introduction of water serpents a german invention even the inner apartments and back rooms of houses were reached to an ordinary water engine were added leather pipes of great length and several inches in diameter exactly answering to our modern hose the credit of applying steam to the purposes of fire extinction belongs to john braithwaite of london who in eighteen thirty invented the steam fire engine it was first used at a fire in london when the cold was so intense that the engines worked by hand became frozen and useless though the value of this machine was thus at once proved it was not brought into general use till many years later there are at the present day many kinds of fire-engines some are fixed in walls or other stationary places and cannot be moved at all some are placed on barges on the water and others on carriages on land some are worked by water some by steam and some by manual power the simplest form of fire engine consists of a pump and a cistern or pail for water in the larger engines the cistern is not used a flexible suction pipe stiffened with spiral wire being carried directly to the water supply The hose is made of rubber lined canvas.

The machine most commonly used is known as a six inch manual fire engine.

It consists of a pair of single acting force pumps mounted on a carriage with four wheels.

... '30 Model A, uh-

... firetruck.

Yep.

Not the above.

Firetruck.

It's certainly not hunting for ducks.

No, yeah.

EMSO needs.

I'm John Leon Guerrero, here to help steer the back of the fire truck.

Yeah, absolutely.

I

like that guy's job.

He's in the back of the fire truck.

The fire truck's going.

He's like, I'm going to whip the tail around.

trucks.

No chance we'll see any other fire trucks.

Truck 841.

Oh, as I direct my attention to another fire truck.

There might

be

more fire trucks.

For those anticipatory listeners.