dimanche 22 septembre 2013

NYC Museums: NYC Fire Department Museum

By Tia Dryer


The NY Fire Department has a proud and famous history of saving lives and keeping N. Y. Residents safe, and the New York Fire Museum celebrates that history. The location calls to mind early 20th century New York at the boom time of its success, when fast growth and meteoric rise in the immigrant population made firefighting more significant than ever. The New York Fire Department Museum looks particularly at firefighting and how it has changed through the years to what it's become today. From painted buckets and leather belts to boots, helmets and even old skool equipment, the Museum of the FDNY has everything you could hope to see if you have an interest in how the FDNY has evolved and changed over throughout. If you are at all keen on the period of time or the history of fire fighting, it would be a great idea to stop by the New York City Fire Museum.



The Fire Museum is situated on the western edge of the trendy Soho neighborhood in Manhattan, at 278 Spring Street near Varick and Hudson. This trendy neighborhood is more well generally known as a locale for restaurants and shopping boutique shops than as a hot spot for museums in Manhattan, but if you are having a shopping day and desire to stir up the monotony with some history of New York City firefighting, all you have got to do is go west on Spring Street and it's easy to find the museum. The area is relatively simple to get to, as it's a major mall for people from all around NYC, and a lot of different of trains and buses service both the Houston and Spring St. stations nearby.

The most important draw of the New York City Fire Museum is the plethora of historical firefighting items, clothing, and trucks from as far in the past as the 18th century. Those things includelanterns, axes, leather buckets, helmets and one of the first fire engines ever built, the 1790 "Farnam" engine. Rescue and respiring gear from the early 1900s is also on show, which gives a sense for just how dangerous fires were before the appearance of modern firefighting equipment. The evolution of firefighting is told at the Museum of the FDNY, offering visitors the chance to understand what the life of a NYC firefighter was like and how it has evolved through the years.

Also, a favored program for children held by the New York City Fire Museum encompasses the history of firefighting with useful tips to understand in the in case of a fire. This professionally led tour of the museum is supplied by a retired New York City firefighter who can supplement the data in the museum with real experiences from his life fighting fires as the technology has changed. Children are also trained on the right procedures to follow in a pretend fire event. A flat is set up to look as it'd if there were a fire, and kids learn where to go, what to do and what should not be done. Fire hazards are pointed out, and escape techniques are practiced.




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