MY New Video: Posting This Again Because I Forgot to Change the Setting from Private to Public

Sunday, January 18, 2015

MY NEW VIDEO: VISIT TO FIREHOUSE ON WEST 100TH STREET ( Where We Meet FF Mike) AND GLORIOUS RIVERSIDE PARK SUNSET

Very chilly Saturday later afternoon in January.....decide to go see the sunset over the Hudson in Riverside Park...on the way stop off and visit the local Firehouse where we meet FF Mike, who, unsurprisingly, turns out to be the son of a Firefighter..yes, Mike knew as a kid he wanted to be in the Fire Service...great guy. 

I asked Mike about how he became a FF because I had read in Dennis Smith's book "Firefighters: Their Lives in Their Own Words" on the various paths that lead people into the whole area of EMS and Fire Service Operations.

A lot of them, like Mike, are born into it ....in fact, in Chile, you ARE born into it, all the FF's are volunteers and there are thousands of FF families, where, the minute a son is born, the father or some uncle rushes down and makes sure he is put on the list for a place as a future FF.

Anyway, you can hardly expect someone in NYC to survive here as a volunteer FF and still have a safe and effective Fire Service ( underpaid as they are despite the rantings and ravings of Tea Party types about "bloated pensions"-- Good Lord, do they really expect people to risk life and limb and face all the hazards and costs of the New York City area without paying them a reasonable wage and providing benefits?! )

So much for that....let's just pray that Mike and all our other great heroes here stay safe as they toil in making the City safe...

And as we celebrate the 150th Anniversary of the FDNY!!

Finally, I got to Riverside Drive on time to catch the setting sun, and its golden red light on all the wonderful old grand apartment buildings on Riverside Drive...where people were out strolling and walking their dogs.....and really lastly, to "Funky Funky Broadway", where I found a busy Starbucks and West Side Market and a lone trumpeter on a corner playing" Somewhere Over the Rainbow.." see all at:

http://youtu.be/3iK8Y2z8O9U