Sesame Street - Firemen,he's ready to go! video free download

Mani B

My sisters and brother and I used to sing this refrain over and over, adding "ding, ding, wait for me!" to the end. For some reason I was thinking about us harmonizing this tune this morning and found it here on Youtube, great! (wasn't sure where we'd got it from)

michael thomas

tfd stands trenton fire dept.so,trenton is in new jersey.

Steve Dogan

Coming from a small town farm kid with nothing but volunteers.....do they actually ride standing on the sides of the trucks or is that just on TV? I can't imagine the liability if someone would slip! Did they really not wear SCBA equipment outside back then? Or yet? I can only think about what all they'd be breathing!

James Gosselin

It took me forever to find this. I think this had more influence on me a s a kid to become a firefighter even more the Emergency! What a flashback!!

michael thomas

you mean emergency debuted in 1972,not 1872 don't you?

sean reilly

I wonder how many fireman today are on the rig today because of this song.

Chris Whitbread

I'm with you. I remember it too.

Chris Whitbread

I remember this from when I was a kid. I recall that catch tune. What's fascinating now is how...dated...the equipment and procedures are. Can you imagine firefighters holding onto the sides of trucks nowadays versus being seated in the cab area with seatbelts on?

Jim Hayes

I remember 1 about the mailman. Would you have that 1 by any chance?

MIKECNW

I doubt it.

gymman1031

Are these the same people that sing the Spanish market song and the Spanish body parts song?

John Eastmond

@tpirman1982 nowadays we use advanced 911. How that works is when you call, the address of the phone is automatically displayed on the dispatcher's screen. The info. is based in [hone company records. This only works for landlines! For cellphones the recent development is GPS. When a 911 call is made, the position is triangulated and a location is displayed. With all these systems (even tape) the assumption is the call location is the emergency location.

tpirman1982

@johneastmond I see. Seems old fashioned. I wonder how they get their fire emergency locations these days when a fire is reported instead of that old fashioned way.

John Eastmond

@tpirman1982 That thing is the tape machine or "tape" for short. The rig was a mechanical call box identifier. When a person would pull the fire alarm on the street or building, the alarm would be activated and a unique number would be imprinted on the tape that then would be used to locate the call to an address. This was the predecessor to the addressable fire alarm. Not only would it alert you to a fire, it would tell you WHERE!

tpirman1982

1:00 What is that reel machine next to the fire bell?

Kimberly Remsen

Wow you brought back some memories. I remember when our fire station had a Mack Pumper it was old Engine 19. It was sold to The Netherlands and it sunk to the bottom of the ocean when the ship wrecked or so my dad said.

John Eastmond

@jfpinell Of coarse my favorite is the city folk who move from town and then cry about the smell!!! Or folks who cry about; "that's not how we do it...." . I just laugh and tell them this is how WE do it! We still use steam and mechanical apparatus which you could never use in town, but works great (in fact most new stuff wouldn't fit or work for us) for what we do.

John Eastmond

@jfpinell Not from the city bud. Ran remote facilities and municipalities in the middle of nowhere. We responded to military camps, man camps, minner's camps and even a couple of Boy Scout camps. The oldest apparatus is a steam driven pump then comes the world war one hand cranker crane. The newest is a 2000 dodge service truck with all the goodies. The biggest town I've dealt with is about 40,000 people. mostly we deal in 2,000 folks or less.

John Eastmond

@jfpinell Yes they did! Can you believe it?! You'd have 20 or so of us standing on the outside of the apparatus, with no harnesses or seatbelts on the outside or the inside! this was shot in good weather, what about cold icy snowy conditions? I've done the -40 degree F 40 minute dispatch, that's fun!! Garbage trucks, log trucks, crew trucks and the like also had folks standing and holding on. There wasn't allot of freeway speeds but there was some.

koala371

Why does he have a coat to keep dry? You would think he would want to be wet because if he is dry, fire can get on him if wet, the fre could not get on him. What is the deal?