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Community Emergency - "A Day In The Life Of A District Fire Chief"

Greg Grimes

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Original AIr Date: February 27, 1988 on Scarboro Cable 10

Spend the December 19, 1987 day shift with the Scarborough Fire Department District Chief at SFD's Birchmount Road headquarters' station and experience the work of the firefighters first hand.

The City of Scarborough was a municipality in the Municipality of Metropolitan Toronto. On January 1, 1998 it was amalgamated with Toronto and the Scarborough Fire Department became part of Toronto Fire Services.

Produced by Jeff Long and Greg Grimes

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20 Comments

@bmused55 5 years ago

Norman R. Morris, the District Chief in this video sadly passed away January 23, 2018 at the age of 85. RIP

@RenegadeChauffeur 1 year ago

5:35 “Have a quiet day”. Worst thing to say in the fire service lol

@AluminumOxide 5 years ago

That intro music is so 80s! I love it

@mikemorris1936 8 years ago (edited)

I would like to thank Mike Wood and Greg Grimes for sharing this , my Father passed away on Jan 23 2018. He was always embarrassed by the lack of action in it but, He was proud of the video and his fellow firefighters.

@NextShiftGamingRenewed 5 years ago

I had to read comments to realize this was Canada and in the 80s now after watching a police, fire, and medical video.

@ryanb.5344 2 months ago

Love, love, love all the old school vehicles!! So cool!! 👍👍👍❤❤❤

@glennjohnston2267 3 years ago

Seemed like a pretty cool chief.

@keithbiggar7639 8 years ago

I love the looks of the old style fire trucks, yellow, and the old gear, long coats, and boots. I remember being around my local fire dept as a kid, and having a pair of those boots of my own. The fire fighters, how they all gathered for breakfast, and the tail board ridding.

@LoreleithetranshuskyKF5DOJ 5 years ago

Love seeing the old rotator light bars

@Topjake1492 1 month ago

I got on in the Fire Service in 1998, retiring in 2025. Most of this footage is so relatable.

@NixNix-ch7ow 5 years ago (edited)

I was 6 years old when this was filmed(I'm 39 now), the world has changed ALOT since than. I still remember the old ambulances from the opening video and the small traffic lights that used to be on the left side of every single. Ahh memories. Sigh

@UCantFixStupit 5 years ago (edited)

You gotta love the Canucks, so friendly, non-threatening, easy going and the most unassuming and polite people anywhere . How can you not like having them as neighbors and allies. And never apologize for a quiet and un-eventful shift. I'm sure it's a rarity, so enjoy the break and be thankful. We call it a perfect game - No Runs, Hits or Errors. Everyone Goes Home! IAFF L-122

@carmac1652 5 years ago

I'm from Ontario Canada . this brings back alot of memories wow .how time's have changed 👍🇨🇦

@samward7633 2 years ago

It's sad, what the Chief was saying about "It's brutal when you're following them, cuz you don't know what they're going to do. Years ago, people used to pull to the right, now some of them pull to the right, some of them pull to the left, some just come to a dead stop right in front of you. When a firetruck is 17-18 tons, it's scary." Still rings true, if not even more true. Materials firewise is also even more true, the risks of cancer continues to grow even heavier.

@EvanWilliam-fk2td 2 months ago

Pretty cool…VHS Tapes were there YouTube training days lol

@gregorkrause 7 years ago

15:27 pre-spectra-alert classic fire alarms that apartments have nowadays with 3 shrill beeps.

@donalddodson7365 5 years ago

Nice blast from the past. How somethings, like equipment and tactics, change, and some things don't, like idiot motorists, unpredictability and unseen health risks from products of combustion. Oh ya, paperwork! Now all via computer. Hats off to all first responders!

@firewalker1372 1 month ago

There use to be a video floating around here on FB, it followed a shift around with a Fire Dept in Canada. Ontario maybe? Montreal, Quebec? One of those big areas. It was from the late 80s very early 90s. Wish I could find it. It was a really good video.

@PlayStationat1993 8 months ago (edited)

That Ford Econoline Van you hardly ever see many of those on the roads these days I remember I used to see a bunch of them still on the roads during the late 90s and early 2000s .