Fire-Fighters (1968)

No title - ’Fire Chopper’ - new mobile firefighting unit. Farnborough, Hampshire. Ground to air shot helicopter arriving carrying the Pyrene Fire Chopper unit underneath. C/U as it is lowered to the ground. M/S helicopter, pan to unit lowered on to the ground. M/S firemen leaping from helicopter and running over to unit to prepare it for use. M/S helicopter taking out hoses from the unit to burning plane. C/U flames. C/U burning plane with firemen playing hoses of light water onto it (looks like foam). Camera pans up to high cloud of smoke above the plane. Various shots as they direct the hoses onto the fire. Various shots the Pyrene-Sun Land Rover, it directs hoses onto burning wreck. M/S as flames are extinguished and the hose dies down. FILM ID: A VIDEO FROM BRITISH PATHÉ. EXPLORE OUR ONLINE CHANNEL, BRITISH PATHÉ TV. IT’S FULL OF GREAT DOCUMENTARIES, FASCINATING INTERVIEWS, AND CLASSIC MOVIES. FOR LICENSING ENQUIRIES VISIT British Pathé also represents the Reuters historical collection, which includes more than 136,000 items from the news agencies Gaumont Graphic (1910-1932), Empire News Bulletin (1926-1930), British Paramount (1931-1957), and Gaumont British (1934-1959), as well as Visnews content from 1957 to the end of 1984. All footage can be viewed on the British Pathé website.