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Stillman Fires Collection: Foreign Fire Departments

Ephemeral film · 12 min

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Running time
12 minutes
Collection
Prelinger Archives

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★★★ · No foreign matter here · Spuzz · 2004-11-20

Another seemingly misttitled Stillman film. The film opens up to show us what is really in a fire chief's car! Woo! We then get some demos of some new fire fighting innovations. Love the smoke sucker which sucks smoke from a cellar. Trouble is, it blasts the smoke into the faces of the firefighters! Ha ha! Alo, we see firepups, little boats used for firefighting. It looked to me that the firefighters were having serious problems keeping the boat controlled under the power of the hose! We then see some more fires, pretty good, with the highlights being the school and the "Rijkin Independent…