Senin, 30 September 2013

NYC Museums: NYC Fire Department Museum

By Tia Dryer


The NY Fire Office has a proud and illustrious history of saving lives and keeping Residents Of The Big Apple safe, and the NY City Fire Museum celebrates that history. The location calls to mind early 20th century NY City at the pinnacle of its success, when quick expansion and meteoric rise in the immigrant population made firefighting more significant than ever. The New York Fire Department Museum looks specifically at firefighting and how it has changed through the years to what it's become today. From painted leather belts and buckets to boots, helmets and even old-fashioned equipment, the Museum of the FDNY has everything you could hope to work out if you're interested in how the FDNY grew, changed and evolved over time. If you're at all keen on the period of time or the history of firefighters, you can stop by the New York City Fire Museum.



The Fire Museum is located on the western edge of the trendy Soho neighborhood in NYC. This hip neighborhood is more well generally known as a locale for cafes and shopping specialised shops than as a hot spot for museums in Manhattan, but if you're out having a shopping day in the city and want 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 neighborhood is quite easy to get to, as it is a major shopping center for people from all around New York City, and a range of public transportation service both the Spring St. and Houston St. stations nearby.

The biggest draw of the New York City Fire Museum is the variety of historical firefighting items, clothing, and trucks from as long ago as the 18th century. Those items includeleather buckets, axes, lanterns, 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 deadly fires were before the appearance of modern firefighting apparatus. The evolution of firefighting is told at the Museum of the FDNY, offering visitors the history and artifacts that help to understand what the life of a NYC firefighter was like and how it has modified through the years.

Additionally, a popular program for children held by the New York City Fire Museum combines the history of firefighting with helpful info to understand in the in case of a fire. This professionally guided tour of the museum is provided by a retired NY City firefighter who can supplement the info 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. An apartment is set up to look as it might if there were a fire, and youngsters learn where to go, what to do and what should not be done. Fire hazards are pointed out, and escape methods are practiced.




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