Jumat, 20 September 2013

NYC Museums: New York Fire Department Museum

By Tia Dryer


The New York Fire Dep. has a proud and exalted history of saving lives and keeping N. Y. Residents safe, and the New York City Fire Museum celebrates that history. The location calls to mind early 20th century New York at the boom time of its success, when rapid city expansion and meteoric rise in the immigrant population made firefighting more important than ever. The New York Fire Department Museum looks particularly at firefighting and how it has evolved through the years to what it's become today. From painted leather belts and buckets to helmets and boots and even old skool equipment, the Museum of the FDNY has everything you could hope to see if you're interested in the way the FDNY grew, changed and evolved over throughout. If you're the type that is at all interested in the period of time or the history of fire fighting, you can stop by the New York City Fire Museum.



The Fire Museum is located on the western edge of the fashionable Soho neighborhood in Manhattan, at 278 Spring Street near Varick and Hudson. This trendy neighborhood is more well generally known as a locale for eateries and shopping boutiques than as a hot spot for museums in Manhattan, but if you're out having a shopping day in Manhattan and desire to split up the monotony with some history of New York firefighting, all you have to do is go west on Spring Street and you'll find the museum. The area is pretty simple to get to, as it's a major shopping center for people from all around New York City, and a lot of different of buses and trains service both the Houston St. Station and the Spring St. Station nearby.

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

In addition, a popular program for youngsters held by the New York City Fire Museum mixes the history of firefighting with helpful tips to know in the the event of a fire. This professionally guided tour of the museum is offered by a retired New York City firefighter who can supplement the info in the museum with real experiences from his life fighting fires as the technology has changed. Youngsters are also trained on the correct procedures to follow in a pretend fire event. An apartment is set up to look as it'd if there were a fire, and kids learn where to go, what to do and what to avoid. Fire risks are indicated, and escape techniques are practiced.




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