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First broadcast in 1948 and running into the early 1950s, Fire Fighters is an action-packed youth adventure series created to showcase the courage and daily perils of emergency responders. The...
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First broadcast in 1948 and running into the early 1950s, Fire Fighters is an action-packed youth adventure series created to showcase the courage and daily perils of emergency responders. The drama follows rookie Tim Collins and Fire Chief Bob Cody, featuring performances by Lyle Sudrow and Cameron Prud'Homme, as the crew battles forest blazes, factory infernos, and elusive arsonists. Combining gripping cliffhangers with authentic emergency techniques and practical safety lessons, this classic serial offers modern listeners an entertaining and nostalgic look back at golden-age radio storytelling.
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3 NOV 2026 · At the corner of Broad and Main, rookie fireman Tim Collins races to the rear of a blazing tenement building where a panicked woman drops her baby from a second-floor window. After making the catch and talking the mother out of jumping, Tim and the crew raise a ladder to bring her safely to the ground. While bundling the mother and infant in blankets, Tim smells kerosene and discovers that a spare bottle of coal oil was stolen from the hallway earlier that night. With multiple blazes erupting in the cellar and wooden stair shaft, Chief Bob Cody and the crew suspect arson. The situation turns critical when the rescued woman reveals that two top-floor residents are still trapped inside with the stairwell cut off by flames.
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2 NOV 2026 · After Chief Bob Cody escorts a soot-covered Tim Collins home to rest following his first fire, Tim's mother hears high praise for her son, who has earned his father's old nickname: "Hooksy." After a brief morning visit from young Jimmy and Trudy, Tim begins active duty with the third platoon. A nighttime alarm soon dispatches Hook and Ladder 31 to Broad and Main, where an arson blaze burns in the cellar of a tightly packed wooden tenement. As Lieutenant Kennedy calls for additional alarms and the crew scrambles to raise ladders and connect to hydrants, Tim circles around the back alley to evaluate the surrounding buildings. There, he faces an unexpected emergency when a panicked mother trapped on the second floor prepares to make a desperate leap.
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1 NOV 2026 · At the corner of Clark and Montague, the five-alarm warehouse fire is finally brought under control as first and second call companies overhaul the smoldering wreckage. Rookie fireman Tim Collins lies wrapped in blankets on the sidewalk recovering from severe smoke inhalation after rescuing the building's watchman, Napoleon Bonaparte. While Battalion Chief Mandeville suspects an explosion caused the rapid third-floor burnout, the watchman is carted off to the hospital before Chief Cody can question him. Fortunately, Tim reports a crucial conversation: open paint cans left behind by painters filled the sealed floor with hazardous fumes. Earning the nickname 'Young Hooksy' like his father before him, Tim is assigned to the overnight third platoon at Hook and Ladder Company 111 and driven home by the Chief to his mother.
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25 OCT 2026 · Rookie fireman Tim Collins anxiously awaits the mail carrier, hoping for official confirmation of his permanent appointment to the city fire department. When the morning delivery brings only bills and a fellow trainee calls to celebrate receiving his own acceptance letter, Tim fears he failed to make the cut. Hoping to keep the family's spirits high, Mrs. Collins begins preparing a dinner of pork chops and a four-layer pink frosted cake. The afternoon mail arrives empty, but the household is surprised by a sudden visit from Fire Chief Bob Cody. While the adults speak in the living room, siblings Jimmy and Trudy scuffle over the frosting bowl in the kitchen, knocking hot cooking fat into the stove flame and igniting a dangerous grease fire that forces Tim and Chief Cody into immediate action.
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25 OCT 2026 · When a grease fire erupts on the stove in the Collins family kitchen, Chief Bob Cody and rookie Tim Collins leap into action. Chief Cody quickly smothers the flames on young Trudy's burning apron with his heavy coat, while Tim stops his brother Jimmy from throwing water on burning fat. After ventilating the dense smoke and putting out the blaze with sand from the entry barrel, the chief explains vital fire survival techniques. Once the mess is cleared and the kids admit to roughhousing near the hot stove, Mrs. Collins demands to know why Tim has not yet received his official notice of appointment to the department—prompting Chief Cody to reach for the vital documents tucked inside his coat pocket.
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25 OCT 2026 · Chief Bob Cody brings thrilling news to the Collins household: Tim Collins has passed his probationary training with the highest rating ever achieved. Appointed as Fireman Fourth Class, Tim earns the rare privilege of choosing his assignment and selects Old Three-Ones—the hook and ladder outfit where his late father served. After celebrating with his family, Tim reports to headquarters with his brand-new gear, only for a third alarm to sound for Box 32 in the warehouse district. With fire raging at Clark and Montague, the newly minted Private Collins must rush straight into action for his very first emergency.
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25 OCT 2026 · When a third alarm sounds for an out-of-control fire at a four-story warehouse on Clark and Montague, rookie firefighter Tim Collins races to the scene with his former teacher, Miss Braddock. Reporting to Lieutenant Kennedy and Chief Bob Cody, Tim is handed a giant can-opener tool and ordered to climb the rear fire stairway to the roof to relieve Private Murphy and ventilate the suffocating gases building behind the partitions. Tim braves the dark stairway and narrowly escapes a blowout from a blistering third-floor fire door before reaching the rooftop penthouse. Amid thick, blinding smoke and shattered skylights, Tim discovers Private Murphy lying unconscious beside his dropped axe. Finally, Chief Cody delivers an important safety message about household fire hazards, including unsealed paint cans, cleaning fluid vapors, and spontaneous ignition from stored rags.
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25 OCT 2026 · At a five-alarm warehouse blaze, rookie fireman Tim Collins navigates dense, billowing smoke across the roof to find Murphy, a fellow firefighter who has collapsed from smoke inhalation. After dragging Murphy toward fresh air at the roof's edge, Tim uses a cutting tool to pierce the roof at the hotspot, venting trapped gas and heavy smoke to assist the hose teams below. Meanwhile, Chief Bob Cody and Lieutenant Kennedy realize that a warehouse watchman remains unaccounted for and may be trapped on the smoke-choked upper levels. Tim and Murphy descend down the stair shaft to the fourth floor, crawling past stacked crates in intense heat and locating broken windows to clear the air after hearing faint cries for help. Chief Cody also delivers a safety message encouraging young listeners to map out emergency escape routes in their homes.
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25 OCT 2026 · Trapped on the fourth floor of a burning warehouse, rookie fireman Tim Collins and fireman Murphy battle suffocating smoke and heat rising from the inferno below. After breaking a window to admit air, Tim follows cries of distress to locate an injured man pinned beneath fallen crates. Working together, Tim and Murphy rig a lifeline using a bowline on a bight to lower the victim to safety below. Outside, Chief Bob Cody coordinates engine companies, holding back water hoses to protect the men while ordering ladders raised to the upper story. When Murphy reaches the ground suffering from smoke exposure, he warns the Chief that Collins is acting disoriented. Left alone on the floor with heat conducting through the boards, a dazed Tim grabs an extinguisher to battle smoldering crates as ladders race to his rescue. Afterwards, Chief Cody delivers a special home safety lesson on inspecting for combustible papers near heating pipes.
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25 OCT 2026 · At the scene of a raging warehouse blaze, rookie fireman Tim Collins is trapped alone on the smoke-filled fourth floor, delirious from smoke poisoning and clutching an empty extinguisher. Chief Bob Cody climbs a ladder into the smoke to retrieve the disoriented young firefighter, using clever psychology to coax him back to the window before lowering him to safety. Outside in the first aid area, Tim awakens to discover the identity of the watchman he pulled from beneath a heavy packing case—an eccentric man named Napoleon Bonaparte. As the watchman recounts how he became trapped and mentions recent painters on the floor, the firefighters begin uncovering clues about how the blaze started. The episode concludes with a vital safety lesson from Chief Cody on crawling low beneath thick smoke.
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First broadcast in 1948 and running into the early 1950s, Fire Fighters is an action-packed youth adventure series created to showcase the courage and daily perils of emergency responders. The...
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First broadcast in 1948 and running into the early 1950s, Fire Fighters is an action-packed youth adventure series created to showcase the courage and daily perils of emergency responders. The drama follows rookie Tim Collins and Fire Chief Bob Cody, featuring performances by Lyle Sudrow and Cameron Prud'Homme, as the crew battles forest blazes, factory infernos, and elusive arsonists. Combining gripping cliffhangers with authentic emergency techniques and practical safety lessons, this classic serial offers modern listeners an entertaining and nostalgic look back at golden-age radio storytelling.
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