Thursday Throwback: “The Fire Factory”

R1 SmokeEater – Clip on FDNY Engine-58 & Ladder-26 “The Fire Factory” in the Harlem section of Manhattan from Firescene VM -1991.



Previous Throwbacks:
Galveston, Texas
Kentucky High School Boiler Explosion, 1980
San Francisco Circa 1970
FDNY “The Fire Next Door”

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