1975 Midtown Blaze FDNY (Paddy Brown Being Treated by EMS BEFORE he was an FDNY Fireman)
by bxbuff, Uploaded on Apr 11, 2010
NYC Fire in a Bath House in Midtown Manhattan, resulting in several DOAs. Well-known FDNY Captain Paddy Brown, who was killed at the WTC, is carried on stretcher by EMS. At the time he was a member of the now-defunct New York Fire Patrol. Brown was credited with at least one rescue from this building.
A. TAYLOR,
This was shot by Sheldon Levy and is from one of his War Years Volumes.
Henry Cancel
That Ambulance Crew (Henry Cancel, Louise Figueroa placing Pat Brown into the ambulance), Freeman Fitzgerald, and other members are from St. Vincent's Hospital in Lower Manhattan, an off duty EMS member there by the door and assisting to place on the stretcher is Mark Lobel (with the beard)....For history's sake!
aran125
Such great footage for the time. Love them old standard stretchers. Before the word Paramedic even existed. Old school long coats too. Great video thx.
wattsky 4 years ago Was just informed by a retired FDNY who was at the scene--this was May 25, 1977--the Everard Baths at 28 W. 28th St. Nine people died. Pat was in Fire Patrol 1 at the time, which was located on W. 30th St.
F.D.N.Y. "The War Years, Volume 3, The FIRES go on"
60 minutes.
Released in November, 2000. Here is more FDNY action video by Sheldon Levy in the 1970's. This video is narrated and includes the 10 alarm Knickerbocker Avenue fire that took 23 buildings, a Brooklyn 4th alarm that engulfed 14 occupied dwellings, a 3rd alarm in Queens that took 13 three story attached dwellings along with 28 parked vehicles and you will also see a 120 year Old Church on fire, a fully involved warehouse plus other heavy fire scenes. The action is great!!! 1977-1979
Available on DVD $29.95
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNn48WKB-bY#t=190
The sequence from 1:35 to 3:22 shows Paddy Brown being removed from one ambulance, where he's resting comfortably in private except for the half-dozen people attending to his every need, taken out, spun around, then placed in another ambulance, all for no damn logical need except so the camera can get a look at him.
Why wasn't Thomas Dyer, the fireman who remained at Bellevue Hospital several days and nights suffering from smoke inhalation, given this opportunity? Because he was really sick and needed to get to a doctor?
Henry Cancel wrote:
That Ambulance Crew (Henry Cancel, Louise Figueroa placing Pat Brown into the ambulance), Freeman Fitzgerald, and other members are from St. Vincent's Hospital in Lower Manhattan, an off duty EMS member there by the door and assisting to place on the stretcher is Mark Lobel (with the beard)....For history's sake!
The inside joke in the Times concerning Paddy Brown is dangerously at the borderline of spilling the goods. Given 50 years of maturation society has undergone since then, I hope everybody just gets it.
Fireman Patrick Brown, 24, was treated at Bellevue for exhaustion. He had administered mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to unconscious victims for more than an hour. "I know two of them died," he said.So why is it that over half of this short video is dedicated to a scene showing a fireman being removed from one ambulance only to be placed in another ambulance? Did the first ambulance have a flat tire?
This fellow makes a two-second appearance as some kind of coded reference
This guy pings my gaydar. The way he scurries in for his two-seconds of face time with the camera establishes without the shadow of a doubt he's serving the same master as Brown, Fine, O'Hagan, and the rest. Brown would have needed a factotum who knew his way around the Everard, and to help carry in the supplies of military grade white phosphorous in gym bags---which was that era's answer to Judy Woods and thermite. This assumes Irving Fine was no more than a passive participant who only said what he was told to say and nothing more.
This glum inter-generational trio of Staten Islanders and Brooklynites is in on it too. You can tell by the frank recognition they and the camera give one another.
I've described the filter that's been placed over the 4th-story arched windows as resembling angel-food cake batter that's overflowing baking pans.
But what I don't understand is--why would Laurie Johnston writing in the New York Times on May 27, 1977, say
According to a Fire Department spokesman, rescue efforts were slowed by the small, round windows on the third floor and by paneling and insulation that covered all windows.
Was Laurie Johnston just mixing up her circles with her rectangles? Or just confusing all up the 2nd, 3rd, and 4th floors---a message and a meaning which the inconsistent imagery that documents this fire compounds.
Is it another one of those, "So What? I killed Kennedy? What the fuck you going to do about it?"--moments?
Patrick Brown FDNY Yogi, by wattsky
Uploaded on Jan 27, 2009
Captain Pat Brown was a legend in the FDNY and also a Yogi, who, along with his men of Ladder 3, died in the North Tower on 9/11, refusing to abandon a large group of severely injured people. Here he shares how yoga helped him with the stress of being a firefighter.
On Scene Rescue-1 FDNY 80's, by R1 SmokeEater Uploaded on Jan 13, 2010
From Series "On Scene" taped in late 1980's - vid riding with FDNY Rescue-1 to a job featuring Captain Paddy Brown (Then Lieutenant) LODD 9-11-01...............
Captain Patrick Brown Tribute, by apttotwinkle
1975 Midtown Blaze FDNY (Paddy Brown Being Treated by EMS BEFORE he was an FDNY Fireman)
F.D.N.Y. "The War Year"
Volume 1 "When New York was Burning"
60 minutes.
The '70s….Videography by Sheldon Levy of Action Movie News, New York, NY. We have started a NEW SERIES, this is Volume One. Natural sound, narration, color. Mid-Late 1970’s action. GREAT fire scenes, heavy fire, many rescues, some graphic footage, old equipment and much, much more. This is like the FDNY you have never seen before. Top quality footage edited from ¾ tapes directly to your VHS copy. This volume includes 6 scenes between 1977-1979. You will see a 2nd alarm with rescues with heavy, heavy fire, a 3rd alarm where a wall falls into Tower Ladder 35, another 3rd with rescues from a tiller ladder, two 4th alarm fires with heavy fire and major collapses and the Gardner Warehouse fire with the "Super Pumper" in action!!!!!!! If you’re a FDNY Buff you know what this video is all about.
Available on DVD $29.95
F.D.N.Y. "The War Years”
Volume 2 "The Blackout"
60 minutes.
"The Blackout" You asked for it, so here it is, Volume 2. Another 60 minutes of action packed FDNY footage taken by Sheldon Levy. Volume 2 covers the blackout 7-14-77 were all 5 boros of NYC were in the dark. Never seen before footage. Lots of heavy fires scenes with many action shots including major wall collapses on U.S.Mail trucks, fully involved factories, a fully involved public school, footage of the BLACKOUT, a scene with the John J. Harvey fireboat in action plus 4th and 5th alarms GALORE!!!!!
Available on DVD $29.95
F.D.N.Y. "The War Years"
Volume 3" "The FIRES go on"
60 minutes.
Released in November, 2000. Here is more FDNY action video by Sheldon Levy in the 1970’s. This video is narrated and includes the 10 alarm Knickerbocker Avenue fire that took 23 buildings, a Brooklyn 4th alarm that engulfed 14 occupied dwellings, a 3rd alarm in Queens that took 13 three story attached dwellings along with 28 parked vehicles and you will also see a 120 year Old Church on fire, a fully involved warehouse plus other heavy fire scenes. The action is great!!! 1977-1979
Available on DVD $29.95
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