Your Fire Department (Part II) (1949)

★★★★ · Where's Stilman when you need him? · Spuzz · 2005-10-26

Big fires! Little Fires! Everybodys reporting a fire! cries the narrator (honestly) at the beginning of this 30 minute expose of the LAFD. And when I say expose I mean expose, as this tells some rather interesting things that I am not too sure whether we were supposed to know about. Like the factor of the number of fire departments is directly connected to how much the property value is in the neighborhood. Like wow. This whole thing is fun, fun fun actually, because the film tells of the many little menial jobs that get to ride on the big big fire truck (and watch it take corners!). We see…