| Manhattan Tragedy: City Mourns 12 Firemen | ||
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| This clip is not available for streaming at this time. Please contact WPA. | Tape Master: | 1753 |
| Catalog #: | 426085 | |
| Clip Number: | 426085-1 | |
| Orginal Film: | 039-085-02 | |
| Timecode: | ||
| Location: | Manhattan, New York | |
| Year Shot: | 1966 (Actual Year) | |
| Audio: | No | |
| Color: | No | |
| Headings: | CROWDS: Pedestrians DISASTERS: Fires HEALTH AND MEDICINE: Misc. LOCATIONS/NORTH AMERICA: USA, New York, New York OCCUPATIONS: Fire & Rescue | |
| Description: | A five alarm fire in a block of stores results in the worst single disaster in the history of the New York Fire Department. Twelve firemen are killed when a floor collapses in a burring drug store. The bodies are found only after a twelve-hour battle against the flames. The dead heroes leave twelve widows and 32 children. A burning building. High Angle Shot - Lost of traffic . MS - A burned out building, no standing walls, and no roof. MS - Throngs of people, a latter leaned against a building, Through the windows everything is gutted and burned out, broken window. CUS - Firemen walking pass the camera. Camera Pans Up - Burned, and broken windows. MS - Hoses laying in a flooded street. MS - Firemen entering the burnt-out building. CUS - Top of an ambulance. CUS - Head shots of firemen , ECUS - Firemen head shots. High Angle Shot - Firemen carrying out the body of another fireman who did no survive this fire, other firemen with their helmets in hand, paying their respects to the deceased fireman who is passing them. High Angle Shot - Two ambulances and one is driving away carrying the deceased fireman’s body. MS - Firemen standing with very somber faces. High Angle Shot - Another body is carried our and placed in an ambulance, and the ambulance is driven away, | |
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