That Volvo unit had a portocabin on the back that can be lowered. They are usually dispatched when there's been a big incident. It is actually a remote command centre.
Looks like it's 3 meters wife.. and probobly decently long. We just use the normal container size unite over here. Or at least that is the only one i seen
Those container units are pretty common in most european countrys.. they transport Container for various special purposes, like a command center, container with Water tanks or for transporting a lot of Foam, equipment for heavy rescue operations, Oil spill removal etc. Fire Departments in Germany, Austria and some other Countrys have in big citys dozens of containers for all purposes and at least 5 to 10 or more hooklift carrier.
I drive the man truck. Its a rescue unit and its alarmed for a variaty of incidents. It has a arm wich has an reach of 32 meters long wich is really handy in case of a house fire to extract people from other levels. We can handle it from the ground or from inside the smal box attatched on the end of the arm. We also get people down whrn the ambulance is not able to. Like dificult staircases. Within minutes we have the patient out of trouble. We can also fight fires with the hose on top wich gives us 3000 liters of water a minute and 50 meters far. We can even protect the cage your in with a spray underneath it. Relay cool car!!😊
There's also white black, usually narrow windowed vans is the minestry of justice. Mostly transport of convicts and suspects between correctional institues or towards courthouse.
@@M3g4tr0nyep, so did the Belgian police. At least in the 80's 😂. I believe the dutch had the 911 or 912 with targa roof. No idea how they got that approved for the budget 😂. Getting the golf GTI's back then was a real good idea tho.
@@CobraChicken101 They actually had budget to burn, but still had to give an excuse for it, so in submitting the paperwork they argued it would make their work easier if they took the top off to direct the public by just shouting at people.
4:22 that is a mobile command unit, The reason the door looks too high is because they don't use them on the back of the truck like that. They deploy them like a roll-off dumpster.
00:31 first car is a regular police car the second car is a rapid responder (ambulance) and indeed a RAV 4 01:10 its a mercedes B-klasse (B-class) 01:55 this is a chief officer of the fire brigade. The number on the back (07-9395) tells you which region this car is from and what function it has. You can only see this with fire brigade and ambulance vehicles 02:17 This is an ambulance, the color is not pastel yellow but RAL 1016 Sulfur yellow. In this video the white balance is not good, which makes it appear lighter 03:03 there are 2 different types of these 1 the aerial platform 2 the car ladder If you want to know the difference, look it up, otherwise it would be too much typing 04:13 this is a duty officer, he has a management position in larger incidents, just like the chief duty officer, only the duty officer is lower in rank compared to the chief officer oh and yeah its a land cruiser 04:54 This is a command container where officers from different disciplines can consult with each other, for example to discuss a plan of action. This consists of 2 types, the container, but also, as here in Rotterdam, as a permanent truck 05:43 some of the firetruck has a bullhorn thats even louder haha 06:40 The unmarked Volvo V60 B6 (B6 only indicates what type of engine is in it) is not a Dutch vehicle but of German origin with a European license plate (Germans like to be difficult about license plates). The siren you hear here is therefore a German siren. 07:23 the black ford mondeo appears to be crashing into something 07:36 the regular police cars are diesel, but we also have a large number of petrol cars such as the DSI (swat) 08:00 line splitting is not allowed, but in some cases (actually more regular than exception) it is tolerated unless you deliberately cause danger and action can be taken by the police 08:30 its a Dacia cheap but strong car 08:52 The reason you didn't see it in the video is because this is a Belgian fire truck, just like the Vito that comes behind it. This filmmaker used Belgian vehicles in his outro I hope this has answered all your questions
@@Auriraka I am a professional press photographer and am involved daily with emergency services. I used to do a lot of ''spotting'' when I was younger this is mainly where I got my knowledge from.
I live in Belgium but you're right about the Netherlands, they really mastered urban planning. The way the entire country is so organised, it's wonderful.
@@ramon3897 Kinda depends where though. Malburgen Arnhem for sure (in the video) But that's just a poor/bad neighbourhood. I'm regularly in Germany I'd say the large cities are a lot more ugly concrete etc. (But their villages and small cities are beautiful)
In the Netherlands (and in Germany too) the fire services use a small variety of specialized first response vehicles like the basic "tankautospuit", a ladder truck, a water rescue vehicle and a "hulpverleningsvoertuig" which is dispatched to car crashes. When additional bigger or specialized equipment is needed at an incident location the fire service has a variety of pre packed containers which are transported to the incident location and left there as long as they need to be there. You saw the mobile command unit on the Volvo, but there are containers with heavy tools for train and truck accidents, for forest fires, hazmat containers and many others. They can be so specialized because they don't each need their own chassis to go with them.
I believe there are even some departments with crashtenders as they can displace a large volume of water in case of a disaster, at least I remember seeing a few 'in the wild' outside an airport
@@Wrecker3D Crashtenders are exclusively stationed at airports and some industrial plants, but they can and do offer assistance when called upon outside their home base. Another thing are tankers. because drinking water is becoming more scarce, the fire department wants to be less dependant on hydrants and is more and more introducing tankers in it's fleet. They carry up to 18.000 liters (4,755 gallons) water.
And a Haakarmbak can be transported by any truck with a "hook arm", so a transport firm can handle them as well if needed, Red Cross has a couple of them as well.
This incident were all these vehicles were going to, was an explosion and subsequent fire in a car repair shop in the middle of a residential area in the city of Arnhem (January 26 2024). Because of the dense surroundings they called in all emergency services, but at the end the fire was not that big and only one person in the repair shop was slightly wounded. But the video maker had a good chance to video a lot of vehicles close by.
Hook loaders in fire departments are common in Europe. They can be kitted out with many modules, hose layer, command post, foam tender, water bowser, equipment flatbed and many more.
@@Tiger313NL You are correct, it is a shipping term, it also relates to a Vehicle body that can be swapped for different options or just rolled onto the floor for loading or unloading purposes, unlike a skip that is lifted off. At least that was what we called it when I served my Engineering Apprenticeship back in the day.
@@Truckspotterappelscha toen bij mij in de flat 2 appartamenten boven mij ontploften kwam er ook een mobiele commandopost. Deze kon in de breedte uitelkaar schuiven. Vervolgens ondersteunt met hydrolische steunpalen.
The fire truck you were questioning how they get up there.. It's a container transporter (haakarm = hook and arm) type. There are many types of operational containers, like foam, high volume water (5" hoses) that's still in inches here, catering and command center etc. They only transport the container and drop it where it's needed and get another one from the fire station. About the striping nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/BZK-striping (in Dutch). Also the sounds are scientifically developed the frequencies of the twintones are the ones that prooved the most destinguishing and most far away recognisable tones and rithms.
Did you know we also have Audi A6 Estates in the Netherlands, the Dutch Highway Patrol calls them “Quick Response Vehicles” in and they are used for high speed persuits. They are really cool.
Yeah the reason we don't use sports cars any more is because the practical cars have gotten just as fast. Same deal with the BMW 5-series Touring in Germany which sport a 3 liter inline six turbo engine. Factory limited at 250kph but without limiter they wil do 280 with ease.
I don't know what brand it was but there was a high speed chase at the store i work at. They were all black cars with sirens and they drove with such a high speed, I've never seen anything like that before.
as a dutchie im just sitting here wondering what apocalyptic thing happened that needs all these emergency units, im from arnhem and i cant remember hearing of anything this massive in recent years lol
It's probably a compilation of footage over time/months.. maar bedankt dat je Arnhem zegt want ik herkende de plaats niet, het zijn dus trolley bus lijnen die ik zie?
as a dutch person I gotta say, your videos are awesome! love how much interest you have in our and other countries’ emergency units. I’ve been bingewatching your channel the past few weeks, very cool and interesting stuff! keep it up!
Its from stations near the border, same with the firetruck a bit later, the Dutch government doesn't really care what plates EMS vehicles have, while the German government does, so this way they can easily hop across the border to help German EMS services without there being a lot of paperwork afterwards.
@@suicidalbananananaAs long as it is a European license plate, no one within the EU cares which EU country you drive around with it in. Especially Germany, as the EU's main transit country, is not.
Since you mentioned being interested in Dutch Urban Design,a great channel to start with is "Not Just Bikes" a channel by a Canadian who moved to the Netherlands who has been making videos on the differences between Dutch Urban design and the typical urban design in North America
At 8:58, that is a Belgian firetruck (I can tell by the livery and plates), The Country identifier (in the blue part of the plate) says B for Belgium and the letters are red on white, which is a telltale sign of being Belgian, Dutch plates are black on yellow with NL identifiers
So is the Mercedes Vito van behind it. A while ago, Belgian fire departments adopted a livery similar to the Dutch one. Nowadays, new police vehicles in Belgium sport a Battenberg scheme that is very similar to the UK one (blue and yellow fluorescent rectangles). Ambulances have had yellow and green Battenberg for some time now.
I sometimes see Dutch ambulances with Belgian license plates driving in Belgium. I know they must be Dutch because they still have Dutch stickers on them. I've always wondered what is up with that.
The Volvo V60 had a German license plate, its a B6 or a D6, either e gasoline hybrid or diesel hybrid. In the Netherlands (and Europe) the bluelight is the only light the emergency services use. White cars = Police, Yellow = Ambulance / doctor, Red = Fire department. The Volvo truck had a container loaded, it is possibly a mobile center of command unit.
The plate started with EU so it's from Euskirchen District in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is not a special Europen Union (as you may think from the EU letters on the plate) force, although it is secret service of some kind.
@@ThaJay many countries have a regional marker, Poland for instance, but also France (with a number per region). EU is Euskirchen, so it can't be also dedicated to EU from European Union.
We used to have different siren sounds based on the amount of syllables for each emergency service (2 for the fire department, 3 for the police, 4 for ambulances), which made it easy to identify what was coming. They simplified it years ago, not sure why, probably because it doesn't matter in the end in the way. You just have to get the f out of the way lol
5:14 This is a swap loading bridge (Wechsellader in German) and there are countless different containers that can be unloaded at the deployment site, for example: respiratory protection, decontamination, hoses and pumps and operations control centers etc.
At 5:00 the Volvo is a hook truck. Under the big red box is a black frame it rollers at the back and a loop for a hook. The truck has a big hook that you slide and rotate backwards. Back up the hook up inder the loop of container and you pull it on the chassis, on location you do the reverse to put it back on the ground with not even having to leave the cab. It a great system for hauling all kinds of containers. Even these mobile office boxes.
The unit at 5:11 you speak of is a Commando unit for Police, Amulance and Fire depertment. It is kitted with all the needs, like desks, AC, Internet for situations that need a commando unit to controle all emergency responders. They roll them off the truck as a temp comandpost, they also have it build in differant sort of container units. Example: for extra materials, waterstorage units for electric cars to put into, even a kitchen / food court to make food on location for long and big emergencies.
Location where the video is taken is in the city I live in. It's a very busy roundabout just across the river from downtown Arnhem. On one corner there's a little shopping centre, all the other corners have medium density housing, so it's not just cars, but also a lot of pedestrians and cyclists. The roundabout is a nightmare for emergency services as the main road running from Arnhem to Nijmegen (two fairly large cities, so this road handles a shit ton of traffic) is about 100 meters from here. As such, people don't generally expect the emergency services to take this road at all and the distance running up to the roundabout is very short as well. The emergency services therefore arrive at relatively short notice, result is that there's not enough time for people to clear out the roundabout effectively, which is why you can see the emergency services often taking the cycling path.
The last two fire vehicles with the music is from Belgium I noticed it by blue and yellow stripes instead of blue and white stripes. Also number plate being red on white instead of black on yellow
Then you haven't seen this one yet th-cam.com/video/TokENH3q8J4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=VeiligheidsregioHaaglanden Motorcycle fire brigade, they have 10 liters (2.6 us gal) of foam extinguishing agent on board and they drive through the city from 7 am to 7 pm, making small reports such as measurements after reporting a nuisance/gas smell, but due to the high mobility and maneuverability they are also very quickly arrives on site as an expert and can determine what equipment should be used. That is a valuable time saver for a busy city like The Hague.
1:02 it is Mercedes B-Class 6:44 Interesting this Volvo V60 has german license plates from Euskirchen 8:30 it is old Dacia logo. 8:32 it is VW Touran, it is small van from VW. In Netherlands you can drive with scooters on bike lanes, i believe they are limited regarding top speed however.
@@module79l28 Funny how some people can't tell the difference between the A-Class and B-Class. Mercedes B-Class is also a hatchback. And Dutch police don't seem to use A-Class, those are B-Class.
the unmarked Volvo that was the first unmarked in the video had a German plate not a Dutch plate like the rest... one of the first big-size fire trucks showed it was from Arnhem (very close to the Dutch/German border), so it wouldn't surprise me if German police units would come to help out with a big incident (with the portable command unit, the big boxy one, it's a big incident, otherwise those don't get transported to the incident...)
I thought it was one of those new fancy containers they use to put out a fire in an electric car... Basically drown the car for 3 days to make sure that the battery doesn't reignite by itself. Not sure if it's water or some other liquid they use to fill the tub. Edit: But I see a heat pump and windows now, you're probably right.
In Germany they transport burned electro cars under supervision of a fire truck with a normal tow truck to a fire department where a big, water tight container is placed and filled with water, the Car then gets lowered into the Water and stays in it for 7 days and only then it gets taken out. Only Problem is thousands of liter of water are polluted and they have to bring in a company for pumping out the polluted water and send it to a specialized company who filters and clears the water.
What I hate about Dutch firetrucks is that they're so frickin slow! I know they carry a lot of weight on them, but if you know that in advance, when designing a new truck, use a truck that can haul that weight with speed. Something with a twin turbo. Use the Dakar trucks for inspiration.
it seems like at 5:06 the firetruck is carrying a movable emergency HQ, usually its used when there is bigger fire and mulitple companies needs to be dispatched from multiple regions and that is than the HQ for officers. its ofc placed on the ground when they are on location
The livery of emergency vehicles is actually copyrighted 😉; "The striping is protected by trademarks and copyrights. Copyright is reserved by the State. The State of the Netherlands is the owner of the copyright and third parties are therefore not allowed to use the striping without the approval of the Minister of Justice and Security."
@@Tobi-pp2wz dit hele filmpje speelt zich af in Arnhem/zuid en in Arnhem word letterlijk ziekenwagen en ambulance gezegd hoor. woon er mijn hele leven 44 jaar.
The Martinhorn they use is a prime example of thorough civil engineeringing... When they drive towards you you'll hear the WEEE--OOOH...and driving away you'll hear OOOH--WEEEH. Or at least, they use the Doppler effect to inform people whether an emergency vehicle is moving towards or away from you. Pretty nifty, but often forgotten.
Lane splitting is fully legal, so long as you pass them with a max of 10km/h difference and up to 30km/h max. on any motorcycle. The vehicles are actually on a bike road so technically they are guests and must be extra careful with bikes since they have preference over everything basically (important for context since that scooter has a blue plate which means they can only navigate through bicycle lanes, so he has precedence over the cars)
actually they are not, it also was my first thought. but if you look closely you see that the cars on the right are in parking spots. but still indeed he is allowed to lane split. if it was smart at that time? judge yourself haha. and the brand of that car. its dacia, part of renault.
@@user-ie6jr4bg1wyou are mistaken, lane splitting is not illegal as there is no law prohibiting it. As long as you abide with all traffic rules, so you are driving on a section of the road you are allowed to use. However if the police decide you are doing it in an unsafe manner, they will get you with an article 5.
@@MrBliss77 exactly. there are no laws which allow it, only code of conduct for motorcycles which states that they can split between the most 2 left lanes whit a speed difference of max 10 km/h when the other traffic exceeds 50 km/h its not allowed anymore.
The Volvo car is a German civil police vehicle from Euskirchen (because of the “EU” at the beginning), as you can see from the license plate, probably from the highway police. We always have the city/municipality "abbreviated" at the beginning of the license plate
White = police, Yellow = ambulance, Red = Fire Department. All these have many different types of vehicles. Only exception I'm aware of is dark blue police riot trucks.
There is also the half dark-blue half white for The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee for cross-border crime and there is also white with yellow/green stripes for the douane who keep an eye on international cargo.
What would probably surprise you is the very smooth-ride high-quality road finish on most Dutch roads. Way better than most other European countries. Road marking and water drainage is better too.
Politie( Police) has white, ambulance and assorted vehicles have yellow-ish and Brandweer ( Fire Brigade) has red, so civil;ians see by colour what emergency vehicle it is. And the sirenes are different , echt has their own.. Police has two tone always same intervals, Ambulanced have two tone, but have switching intervals, and Firedept. has three tones accord high and lowin regular intervals, atleast the trucks, Police now also has new sirenes that have irregular fast/slow aswell..
See how they take the bicylepath onto the roundabout. So the cards and vans hop onto the bicycle path. Volvo was big in Diesel, cars, but Diesel is phased out, so it might be a B(enzine) 6 cilinder Volvo V60?
Dutch volunteer firefighters in action from start to finish with a great views of the insides of the truck and the whole operation! 👌🏼 Body Cam view and with subtitles. ✌🏼 Brandweer Lunteren Coach on fire! Busbrand - VOLUNTEERS DUTCH FIREFIGHTERS th-cam.com/video/Z8Sabr21SVM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oSUtkU0_zh3J-Ufe
Maybecan help you: that unit on the Volvo is a kind of an office i roll on, roll off container. In here they have the possibity for communication : only used when there is terrible accident. We call it: Brandweer Commando Unit ( BCU ) . Also police has this kind of units of in complete van.
Here you can see the hookloaders driving without containers to get new containers with other equipment and to bring it on scene. th-cam.com/video/0ojtYElRVyQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7yLHSzNOEGTr9Gfr We have so much different containers like for breathing apparatus, logistics (food/drinks/toilets), mobile commandcontainers, dispatchcontainers, watertanks, wrecked cars for training in containers, flashover training containers, extra lightcontainers, Heavy Rescue Containers, containers with shipfirematerials, containers with stretchers and medical equipment for the ambulance. But also the police use mobile containers for Crime Scene Investigation, anti terror units, Command rooms, to transport cars from criminals or from accicent for investigation and also for CBRN calls to decontaminate people. Not only they use it also the railroad rescuers from ProRail Incidentenbestrijding use these systems with containers for derailed trains and broken trains. They can drive on the traintracks, video: th-cam.com/video/lqbWIYjREmo/w-d-xo.html
White with striping = Police Red with striping = Fire Fighters Yellow with striping = Ambulance Dark blue with striping = Military Police Grey with striping = Explosive Unit from Defense Yellow with Red and striping = Organ Donation
That truck around 05:10 is probably something like a mobile command center that they can place at bigger incidents. Lanesplitting is legal in the Netherlands but there are rules. On the highway it's only allowed during traffic jams between the most left two lanes (so cars know what to expect), the speed difference should not exceed 10kph and you are advised to run your hazzard lights. When traffics starts moving above a certain speed you should resume your normal position on the road. (I believe above 50kph). In normal city traffic it's common for motorcycles to pull up to the light in front of the cars. On average the motorcycles are much faster off the line than cars so it should bother nobody. It's more efficient to because the cars can move up a little too because there are no motorcycles taking up a space in the line. I believe all emergency vehicles are diesel cars for fuel efficiency and cost, diesel is cheaper. Plus they are on the road almost 24/7. I know the police here also started testing electric vehicles like the Hyundai Ionic 5
Big VOLVO with container: In the netherlands and germany (and some more european countries i guess), the fire departments in larger cities have many containers for all sorts of emergencies. For example one office container for the commander you would need when managing hundreds of people at a big scene, or maybe a container with special equipment for chemical issues. Big cities also work together and own different special equipment which can be used to support the fire departments in nearby cities, which creates a big variety of possibilities. City A has more chemical equipment, City B is better equipped when it comes to climbing and so on... So imagine dozens of special containers, each for a special purpose. Since you don't need all containers every day, it makes more sense that they are just containers and you own only a few trucks to load the container you need at the moment. Otherwise there would be some expensive trucks standing in the fire station only to be used twice a year... The VOLVO would be one of these container trucks i guess. If you goolge "Feuerwehrcontainer" you will find at least german ones but our brothers in the netherlands usually use the same equipment.
White = police (politie). Red = fire department (brandweer). Yellow = Ambulance. Fire department doesn't do ambulance services in the Netherlands. Ambulance services aren't integrated into the fire department (like they are in the US). The Volvo is a red fire truck, hence the 'container' isn't an ambulance, but a command post for the fire department.
Red with striping and blue lights = Fire department (brandweer) Yellow with striping and blue lights = Ambulance (ambulance) White with striping and blue lights = Police (politie) Green with striping and blue lights = Veiligheidsregio (regional emergency management) Dark blue with striping and blue lights = Royal Netherlands Military Police / Border Police (Koninklijke Marechaussee)
The Volvo is a hook loader so it can drop the any type of cabin, Unit or skip off the back. In this case it looks like a mobile command unit / incident response unit.
Each service branch has it's own distinctive color and sound/siren: The yellow color is used for medical emergencies, where as red (firefighter) and white (police). In this clip, I think the yellow ambulances are from the SIGMA-unit -a special division solely used in case of large incidents/disasters. (Not sure if they are, but considering the fire brigade sends out the Volvo VC-units (mobile command center) at 4:25min At 6:47min thinks it's a 'anonymus' car from the police department... 1:17min Looks also like a car from the VC-units (commanding officer,...)...
Fun fact from the past. Each force used to have thei their own distinct sound, but are slowly switching over to a singular emergency sound. Brand-weer (fire department), two syllables, two tone alarm. Most fire trucks still have the two tones, like most trucks in this video still. Po-li-tie (police), three syllables, three tone alarm Am-Bu-Lan-Ce (medical), four syllables, four tone alarm (very rare to hear these days)
Brandweer = Firetruck. Politie = Police. Ambulance = ambulance The striping is simular patern but differ per organization. Police is Red, Blue an White, The Firetrucks is more Red and then White and Blue
Regarding the video you were watching: I would be on high alert by the sound and sight of the first 2 cars, immediately knowing something huge and awful was happening nearby due to the various commander cars from the police and the firefighters and the medics! The goosebumps I have now just by listening to all the sirenes! PS: as far as I know, no diesel, none of them. Others may correct me if I'm wrong.
5:00 thats a container and the unit has a mechanism to lower the container on the street. It says Police, FD and ambulance, so i would guess its some sort of mobile office from where big scences or incidents are handled. The truck can lower it, drive back to the department and get a different container to scene. So you need just one truck for a lot of functionality And by the way, the unmarked volvo is German. You see that on the licence plate. White in front and back and you have the D to the left
Nope, it is a mobile command unit which can be dropped off anywhere near a large fire or accident and such. Inside are representatives of the fire department, ambulance and police to coordinate large scale events.
The Landcruiser at 4.08 was correct, but to me it looked more like a brand called LDV. GWM (Great Wall Motor Group) is the parent company of LDV, Great Wall, Mazda, Haval & I think KG mobility. Also a few Chinese only cars like Wey. Based in China, with factories in a lot of Asian countries (India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia). Haval is the biggest market of the GWM group. Specialising in SUV's & 4x4's.
Hi, That big red BRANDWEER (fire brigade) truck is a mobile opmmand unit. It will be placed on the ground at te scene. Kind greetings from a policeofficer (motorwaypolice) from the Netherlands, Paul
Yeah, they do look sharp and they do work hard to keep us safe and alive... Buuuuuuuuuut~😋 The Dutch have an Emergency Response "ace" up their sleeve for when they need to roll out the _really_ big guns: The American (yep, 'Murica) E-One Titan crashtender; packed with mindbending amounts of firefighting power and a big ol' 12 cylinder turbocharged Detroit Diesel belching out 1005 buff all-American ponies this baby can work some firefighting magic😁 (I may be -ever so slightly - biased here, having served in the Air Force😆) These are usually stationed at Air Force bases and at Schiphol, but have been known to assist civilian firefighters😄
Sounds like a diesel? (7:39) Almost every car used by companies (almost every van, like a Mercedes Sprinter) is a diesel, this is the same for government owned cars. Diesels are more economical and have a longer life span than a compared petrol powerd engine. The dutch highway polices uses diesels as well. The Audi A6 3.0 TDI (272 hp) and before the Audi’s they used Volvo V70’s D5 2.4 5-cil diesel powerd cars. Fuel is expensive in Europe and nothing drives better than a diesel-powered station wagon, like a Volvo V60, Audi’s, VW’s, Mercedeses and BMW’s.
yellow emergency cars with the red and blue stripes: Ambulance red emergency vehicles with the red white and blue stripes: Brandweer: Fire fighters white emergency vehicles with red and blue stripes: Politie: Police
The black unmarked car looks like a VIP protection services car. License plates looked German, not Dutch. The vehicles at 10:30 were Belgian, not Dutch, btw.
Police: White Ambulance: Yellow Fire: Red MP: Blue Btw, the red tarmac means that they are bicycle lanes. In the vid you see several emergency vehicles use those lanes to skip trafic on the roads.
That Volvo unit had a portocabin on the back that can be lowered. They are usually dispatched when there's been a big incident. It is actually a remote command centre.
Exactly what I was going to say. We have them in the UK too! :)
Looks like it's 3 meters wife.. and probobly decently long.
We just use the normal container size unite over here. Or at least that is the only one i seen
Those container units are pretty common in most european countrys.. they transport Container for various special purposes, like a command center, container with Water tanks or for transporting a lot of Foam, equipment for heavy rescue operations, Oil spill removal etc.
Fire Departments in Germany, Austria and some other Countrys have in big citys dozens of containers for all purposes and at least 5 to 10 or more hooklift carrier.
The truck was a hooklift truck a volvo fm. But not the current i think from the headlights a volvo fm mk2.
Command-control unit.
I drive the man truck. Its a rescue unit and its alarmed for a variaty of incidents. It has a arm wich has an reach of 32 meters long wich is really handy in case of a house fire to extract people from other levels. We can handle it from the ground or from inside the smal box attatched on the end of the arm. We also get people down whrn the ambulance is not able to. Like dificult staircases. Within minutes we have the patient out of trouble. We can also fight fires with the hose on top wich gives us 3000 liters of water a minute and 50 meters far. We can even protect the cage your in with a spray underneath it. Relay cool car!!😊
Thanx voor de uitleg.
In America these are called aerial platform or hydraulic platform units if I remember correctly.
@@theunknownking5330 amazing! Thanks. I will look into it!
Cars/Trucks:
Yellow = Ambulances / Medical
Red = Brandweer = Fire Dept.
White = Police
wit=politie xD
Blue/yellow = douane (border control)
White front blue back = Military police
There's also white black, usually narrow windowed vans is the minestry of justice. Mostly transport of convicts and suspects between correctional institues or towards courthouse.
Green = safety region
The Dutch police used to drive Porsche in the past😃
@@M3g4tr0nyep, so did the Belgian police. At least in the 80's 😂. I believe the dutch had the 911 or 912 with targa roof. No idea how they got that approved for the budget 😂. Getting the golf GTI's back then was a real good idea tho.
@@M3g4tr0n de snelweg politie heeft inderdaad zo'n dertig jaar lang porsches gehad. Ik geloof vanaf 1961 tot ergens in de 90's.
The Dutch police had the largest Porsche fleet in the world at the time, 911 Targa's
@@CobraChicken101 They actually had budget to burn, but still had to give an excuse for it, so in submitting the paperwork they argued it would make their work easier if they took the top off to direct the public by just shouting at people.
@@PinnacleNL and the aircooled engine is ideal when they have to drive in reverse at high speed for a long time. 😏
4:22 that is a mobile command unit, The reason the door looks too high is because they don't use them on the back of the truck like that.
They deploy them like a roll-off dumpster.
"Hooklift"
00:31 first car is a regular police car the second car is a rapid responder (ambulance) and indeed a RAV 4
01:10 its a mercedes B-klasse (B-class)
01:55 this is a chief officer of the fire brigade. The number on the back (07-9395) tells you which region this car is from and what function it has. You can only see this with fire brigade and ambulance vehicles
02:17 This is an ambulance, the color is not pastel yellow but RAL 1016 Sulfur yellow. In this video the white balance is not good, which makes it appear lighter
03:03 there are 2 different types of these 1 the aerial platform 2 the car ladder If you want to know the difference, look it up, otherwise it would be too much typing
04:13 this is a duty officer, he has a management position in larger incidents, just like the chief duty officer, only the duty officer is lower in rank compared to the chief officer oh and yeah its a land cruiser
04:54 This is a command container where officers from different disciplines can consult with each other, for example to discuss a plan of action. This consists of 2 types, the container, but also, as here in Rotterdam, as a permanent truck
05:43 some of the firetruck has a bullhorn thats even louder haha
06:40 The unmarked Volvo V60 B6 (B6 only indicates what type of engine is in it) is not a Dutch vehicle but of German origin with a European license plate (Germans like to be difficult about license plates). The siren you hear here is therefore a German siren.
07:23 the black ford mondeo appears to be crashing into something
07:36 the regular police cars are diesel, but we also have a large number of petrol cars such as the DSI (swat)
08:00 line splitting is not allowed, but in some cases (actually more regular than exception) it is tolerated unless you deliberately cause danger and action can be taken by the police
08:30 its a Dacia cheap but strong car
08:52 The reason you didn't see it in the video is because this is a Belgian fire truck, just like the Vito that comes behind it. This filmmaker used Belgian vehicles in his outro
I hope this has answered all your questions
Damn, you know your shit! Even I didn't know all of this!
@@Auriraka I am a professional press photographer and am involved daily with emergency services. I used to do a lot of ''spotting'' when I was younger this is mainly where I got my knowledge from.
I live in Belgium but you're right about the Netherlands, they really mastered urban planning. The way the entire country is so organised, it's wonderful.
Dankje!
Thankyou for this 🫡
This is why we always dread going over the border 🤣
Now they just have to find an alternative for those damn speed bumps.
@@ramon3897 wat let je?
@@ramon3897 Kinda depends where though.
Malburgen Arnhem for sure (in the video) But that's just a poor/bad neighbourhood.
I'm regularly in Germany I'd say the large cities are a lot more ugly concrete etc. (But their villages and small cities are beautiful)
In the Netherlands (and in Germany too) the fire services use a small variety of specialized first response vehicles like the basic "tankautospuit", a ladder truck, a water rescue vehicle and a "hulpverleningsvoertuig" which is dispatched to car crashes. When additional bigger or specialized equipment is needed at an incident location the fire service has a variety of pre packed containers which are transported to the incident location and left there as long as they need to be there. You saw the mobile command unit on the Volvo, but there are containers with heavy tools for train and truck accidents, for forest fires, hazmat containers and many others. They can be so specialized because they don't each need their own chassis to go with them.
I believe there are even some departments with crashtenders as they can displace a large volume of water in case of a disaster, at least I remember seeing a few 'in the wild' outside an airport
@@Wrecker3D Crashtenders are exclusively stationed at airports and some industrial plants, but they can and do offer assistance when called upon outside their home base. Another thing are tankers. because drinking water is becoming more scarce, the fire department wants to be less dependant on hydrants and is more and more introducing tankers in it's fleet. They carry up to 18.000 liters (4,755 gallons) water.
@@henrischutte1968 Military airbases too.
And a Haakarmbak can be transported by any truck with a "hook arm", so a transport firm can handle them as well if needed, Red Cross has a couple of them as well.
This incident were all these vehicles were going to, was an explosion and subsequent fire in a car repair shop in the middle of a residential area in the city of Arnhem (January 26 2024). Because of the dense surroundings they called in all emergency services, but at the end the fire was not that big and only one person in the repair shop was slightly wounded.
But the video maker had a good chance to video a lot of vehicles close by.
True! I live in Arnhem. I imeadiately recognised it
Hook loaders in fire departments are common in Europe. They can be kitted out with many modules, hose layer, command post, foam tender, water bowser, equipment flatbed and many more.
This particular Volvo had a command post loaded.
I worked a fire as a volunteer firefighter where the career firefighters brought a SCBA bottle and refill module...biggest incident I've been at.
What we call in the UK RO-RO ( Roll on- Roll Off )
@@stephensmith4480Hrm... that to me sounds more like a shipping term. This is a multilift/hooklift system.
@@Tiger313NL You are correct, it is a shipping term, it also relates to a Vehicle body that can be swapped for different options or just rolled onto the floor for loading or unloading purposes, unlike a skip that is lifted off. At least that was what we called it when I served my Engineering Apprenticeship back in the day.
Look at all those roundabouts he said... it's basically the same 3 roundabouts in the entire video LOL
All in Arnhem 😂
The Volvo truck with the strange container on the back is a mobile command post. It is used if, for example, there is a very large fire.
It can get twice as wide.. it can litteraly extend sideways...😮
Wat bedoel je
@@Truckspotterappelscha toen bij mij in de flat 2 appartamenten boven mij ontploften kwam er ook een mobiele commandopost. Deze kon in de breedte uitelkaar schuiven. Vervolgens ondersteunt met hydrolische steunpalen.
Ja klopt heb ik ook weleens gezien.
@@Truckspotterappelscha moai spul
The fire truck you were questioning how they get up there.. It's a container transporter (haakarm = hook and arm) type. There are many types of operational containers, like foam, high volume water (5" hoses) that's still in inches here, catering and command center etc. They only transport the container and drop it where it's needed and get another one from the fire station.
About the striping nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/BZK-striping (in Dutch). Also the sounds are scientifically developed the frequencies of the twintones are the ones that prooved the most destinguishing and most far away recognisable tones and rithms.
You mean hook lift.
probably... I tried to explain. I'm Dutch. From your answer I understand you understood me. Now I know it's hook lift ;-) @@Truckspotterappelscha
Did you know we also have Audi A6 Estates in the Netherlands, the Dutch Highway Patrol calls them “Quick Response Vehicles” in and they are used for high speed persuits.
They are really cool.
Better translation would be "fast intervention vehicle".
But we used to have Porsche 911's for that, back in the 70's. Can't really beat that.
@@Eis_Bearnot on the cool part, but these Audis are a lot faster then those 911 were
Yeah the reason we don't use sports cars any more is because the practical cars have gotten just as fast. Same deal with the BMW 5-series Touring in Germany which sport a 3 liter inline six turbo engine. Factory limited at 250kph but without limiter they wil do 280 with ease.
I don't know what brand it was but there was a high speed chase at the store i work at. They were all black cars with sirens and they drove with such a high speed, I've never seen anything like that before.
as a dutchie im just sitting here wondering what apocalyptic thing happened that needs all these emergency units, im from arnhem and i cant remember hearing of anything this massive in recent years lol
arnhem is wild
It's probably a compilation of footage over time/months.. maar bedankt dat je Arnhem zegt want ik herkende de plaats niet, het zijn dus trolley bus lijnen die ik zie?
@@DS-xd9iu klopt, Arnhem is de trolleystad van nederland
Huge fire on 26 januari in a garage with an elementary-school nearby. Google for more info. Forelstraat, Arnhem.
Other comments mention an explosion of sorts on January 26th this year
as a dutch person I gotta say, your videos are awesome! love how much interest you have in our and other countries’ emergency units. I’ve been bingewatching your channel the past few weeks, very cool and interesting stuff! keep it up!
7:00 German Numberplate on the undercover police wagon xD
It's the secret EU police....
Its from stations near the border, same with the firetruck a bit later, the Dutch government doesn't really care what plates EMS vehicles have, while the German government does, so this way they can easily hop across the border to help German EMS services without there being a lot of paperwork afterwards.
@@DenUitvreter Nope. Its the German district of Euskirchen, quite near to the NL/D border. And there are some units with mixed crews on both sides.
@@suicidalbananananaAs long as it is a European license plate, no one within the EU cares which EU country you drive around with it in. Especially Germany, as the EU's main transit country, is not.
@@DenUitvreter Eustapo?
if you want to know more about the Dutch street plan, check out "not just bikes" yt channel (it's in English)
Since you mentioned being interested in Dutch Urban Design,a great channel to start with is "Not Just Bikes" a channel by a Canadian who moved to the Netherlands who has been making videos on the differences between Dutch Urban design and the typical urban design in North America
I always recommend this to people as well! It's a great channel, very interesting :)
At 8:58, that is a Belgian firetruck (I can tell by the livery and plates), The Country identifier (in the blue part of the plate) says B for Belgium and the letters are red on white, which is a telltale sign of being Belgian, Dutch plates are black on yellow with NL identifiers
So is the Mercedes Vito van behind it. A while ago, Belgian fire departments adopted a livery similar to the Dutch one. Nowadays, new police vehicles in Belgium sport a Battenberg scheme that is very similar to the UK one (blue and yellow fluorescent rectangles). Ambulances have had yellow and green Battenberg for some time now.
I sometimes see Dutch ambulances with Belgian license plates driving in Belgium. I know they must be Dutch because they still have Dutch stickers on them. I've always wondered what is up with that.
Probably far closer tham a belgian ambulance, I often see german ambulances in my neighborhood, mostly because they're the closest unit@@renemeyer256
they were sold form Nl to Belgium and mostly deployed at private ambulance firms, they kept the Dutch color scheme and decals.@@renemeyer256
Maybe a belgium lease vehicle@@renemeyer256
The Volvo V60 had a German license plate, its a B6 or a D6, either e gasoline hybrid or diesel hybrid.
In the Netherlands (and Europe) the bluelight is the only light the emergency services use. White cars = Police, Yellow = Ambulance / doctor, Red = Fire department. The Volvo truck had a container loaded, it is possibly a mobile center of command unit.
The plate started with EU so it's from Euskirchen District in North Rhine-Westphalia. It is not a special Europen Union (as you may think from the EU letters on the plate) force, although it is secret service of some kind.
@@ThaJay many countries have a regional marker, Poland for instance, but also France (with a number per region).
EU is Euskirchen, so it can't be also dedicated to EU from European Union.
We used to have different siren sounds based on the amount of syllables for each emergency service (2 for the fire department, 3 for the police, 4 for ambulances), which made it easy to identify what was coming. They simplified it years ago, not sure why, probably because it doesn't matter in the end in the way. You just have to get the f out of the way lol
Dit is mij de laatste jaren ook opgevallen!
5:14 This is a swap loading bridge (Wechsellader in German) and there are countless different containers that can be unloaded at the deployment site, for example: respiratory protection, decontamination, hoses and pumps and operations control centers etc.
if seen big emergency power too
Even mass casualty containers too
At 5:00 the Volvo is a hook truck. Under the big red box is a black frame it rollers at the back and a loop for a hook. The truck has a big hook that you slide and rotate backwards. Back up the hook up inder the loop of container and you pull it on the chassis, on location you do the reverse to put it back on the ground with not even having to leave the cab. It a great system for hauling all kinds of containers. Even these mobile office boxes.
Yellow = ambulance
Red = fire fighters
White = police
Unmarked = special forces police
8:48 from here we see Belgium vehicles from the Flemish part
The unit at 5:11 you speak of is a Commando unit for Police, Amulance and Fire depertment. It is kitted with all the needs, like desks, AC, Internet for situations that need a commando unit to controle all emergency responders. They roll them off the truck as a temp comandpost, they also have it build in differant sort of container units. Example: for extra materials, waterstorage units for electric cars to put into, even a kitchen / food court to make food on location for long and big emergencies.
5:10 is a mobile command post.
Location where the video is taken is in the city I live in. It's a very busy roundabout just across the river from downtown Arnhem. On one corner there's a little shopping centre, all the other corners have medium density housing, so it's not just cars, but also a lot of pedestrians and cyclists. The roundabout is a nightmare for emergency services as the main road running from Arnhem to Nijmegen (two fairly large cities, so this road handles a shit ton of traffic) is about 100 meters from here. As such, people don't generally expect the emergency services to take this road at all and the distance running up to the roundabout is very short as well. The emergency services therefore arrive at relatively short notice, result is that there's not enough time for people to clear out the roundabout effectively, which is why you can see the emergency services often taking the cycling path.
The last two fire vehicles with the music is from Belgium I noticed it by blue and yellow stripes instead of blue and white stripes. Also number plate being red on white instead of black on yellow
Then you haven't seen this one yet th-cam.com/video/TokENH3q8J4/w-d-xo.html&ab_channel=VeiligheidsregioHaaglanden Motorcycle fire brigade, they have 10 liters (2.6 us gal) of foam extinguishing agent on board and they drive through the city from 7 am to 7 pm, making small reports such as measurements after reporting a nuisance/gas smell, but due to the high mobility and maneuverability they are also very quickly arrives on site as an expert and can determine what equipment should be used. That is a valuable time saver for a busy city like The Hague.
1:02 it is Mercedes B-Class
6:44 Interesting this Volvo V60 has german license plates from Euskirchen
8:30 it is old Dacia logo.
8:32 it is VW Touran, it is small van from VW.
In Netherlands you can drive with scooters on bike lanes, i believe they are limited regarding top speed however.
true depends on the plates. blue 25 kmp ore Yellow 45 kmp.
1:02 - For Ian: the only hatchback Mercedes has is the A-Class.
@@module79l28 But those are B-Class :)
@@module79l28 Mercedes B-Class: *"Am I a joke to you?"*
@@module79l28 Funny how some people can't tell the difference between the A-Class and B-Class.
Mercedes B-Class is also a hatchback. And Dutch police don't seem to use A-Class, those are B-Class.
the unmarked Volvo that was the first unmarked in the video had a German plate not a Dutch plate like the rest... one of the first big-size fire trucks showed it was from Arnhem (very close to the Dutch/German border), so it wouldn't surprise me if German police units would come to help out with a big incident (with the portable command unit, the big boxy one, it's a big incident, otherwise those don't get transported to the incident...)
5:00 it looks like some kind of a mobile office / field command center they use when some big guys have to be on the spot :)
I thought it was one of those new fancy containers they use to put out a fire in an electric car...
Basically drown the car for 3 days to make sure that the battery doesn't reignite by itself.
Not sure if it's water or some other liquid they use to fill the tub.
Edit: But I see a heat pump and windows now, you're probably right.
In Germany they transport burned electro cars under supervision of a fire truck with a normal tow truck to a fire department where a big, water tight container is placed and filled with water, the Car then gets lowered into the Water and stays in it for 7 days and only then it gets taken out. Only Problem is thousands of liter of water are polluted and they have to bring in a company for pumping out the polluted water and send it to a specialized company who filters and clears the water.
What I hate about Dutch firetrucks is that they're so frickin slow!
I know they carry a lot of weight on them, but if you know that in advance, when designing a new truck, use a truck that can haul that weight with speed. Something with a twin turbo. Use the Dakar trucks for inspiration.
5:15 this is a control center, for management of crisis, inside they relay all info and take decisions
it seems like at 5:06 the firetruck is carrying a movable emergency HQ, usually its used when there is bigger fire and mulitple companies needs to be dispatched from multiple regions and that is than the HQ for officers. its ofc placed on the ground when they are on location
The livery of emergency vehicles is actually copyrighted 😉; "The striping is protected by trademarks and copyrights. Copyright is reserved by the State. The State of the Netherlands is the owner of the copyright and third parties are therefore not allowed to use the striping without the approval of the Minister of Justice and Security."
I didnt even know americans were so impressed with stuff thats very normal here
Politie is dutch for police
Brandweer is dutch for firebrigade
Ambulance is the replacement for the dutch word ziekenwagen
ziekenwagen zegt leterlijk niemand
Niemand...meer@@Tobi-pp2wz
@@Tobi-pp2wz dit hele filmpje speelt zich af in Arnhem/zuid en in Arnhem word letterlijk ziekenwagen en ambulance gezegd hoor. woon er mijn hele leven 44 jaar.
White is police, yellow is ambulance, red is firefighters, black is special police officers.
The Martinhorn they use is a prime example of thorough civil engineeringing...
When they drive towards you you'll hear the WEEE--OOOH...and driving away you'll hear OOOH--WEEEH.
Or at least, they use the Doppler effect to inform people whether an emergency vehicle is moving towards or away from you.
Pretty nifty, but often forgotten.
They do not USE the doppler effect. It is always there, with every sound.
The volvo on 5:00 has a hook system on the back that can pick up containers and little units with suplies for the ambulance to help wounded
Lane splitting is fully legal, so long as you pass them with a max of 10km/h difference and up to 30km/h max. on any motorcycle. The vehicles are actually on a bike road so technically they are guests and must be extra careful with bikes since they have preference over everything basically (important for context since that scooter has a blue plate which means they can only navigate through bicycle lanes, so he has precedence over the cars)
actually they are not, it also was my first thought. but if you look closely you see that the cars on the right are in parking spots. but still indeed he is allowed to lane split. if it was smart at that time? judge yourself haha. and the brand of that car. its dacia, part of renault.
Euhm no its not, its not legal. Especially not with a moped. Its not enforced often but its not legal
@@user-ie6jr4bg1wyou are mistaken, lane splitting is not illegal as there is no law prohibiting it. As long as you abide with all traffic rules, so you are driving on a section of the road you are allowed to use.
However if the police decide you are doing it in an unsafe manner, they will get you with an article 5.
@@MrBliss77 exactly. there are no laws which allow it, only code of conduct for motorcycles which states that they can split between the most 2 left lanes whit a speed difference of max 10 km/h when the other traffic exceeds 50 km/h its not allowed anymore.
those last two vehicles with the music dubbed over aren't actually from the Netherlands. Those are Belgian
they did on the cycle path ,other traffic blocks the road. !!
de black Volvo was NOT Dutch
The Volvo car is a German civil police vehicle from Euskirchen (because of the “EU” at the beginning), as you can see from the license plate, probably from the highway police.
We always have the city/municipality "abbreviated" at the beginning of the license plate
White = police, Yellow = ambulance, Red = Fire Department.
All these have many different types of vehicles.
Only exception I'm aware of is dark blue police riot trucks.
There is also the half dark-blue half white for The Royal Netherlands Marechaussee for cross-border crime and there is also white with yellow/green stripes for the douane who keep an eye on international cargo.
What would probably surprise you is the very smooth-ride high-quality road finish on most Dutch roads. Way better than most other European countries. Road marking and water drainage is better too.
Politie( Police) has white, ambulance and assorted vehicles have yellow-ish and Brandweer ( Fire Brigade) has red, so civil;ians see by colour what emergency vehicle it is. And the sirenes are different , echt has their own.. Police has two tone always same intervals, Ambulanced have two tone, but have switching intervals, and Firedept. has three tones accord high and lowin regular intervals, atleast the trucks, Police now also has new sirenes that have irregular fast/slow aswell..
See NotJustBikes about dutch roads etc.
See how they take the bicylepath onto the roundabout. So the cards and vans hop onto the bicycle path. Volvo was big in Diesel, cars, but Diesel is phased out, so it might be a B(enzine) 6 cilinder Volvo V60?
Dutch volunteer firefighters in action from start to finish with a great views of the insides of the truck and the whole operation! 👌🏼
Body Cam view and with subtitles. ✌🏼
Brandweer Lunteren
Coach on fire!
Busbrand - VOLUNTEERS DUTCH FIREFIGHTERS
th-cam.com/video/Z8Sabr21SVM/w-d-xo.htmlsi=oSUtkU0_zh3J-Ufe
Lanes splitting is legal here. In congestion situations and as long as you keep speed difference to a minimum.
Maybecan help you: that unit on the Volvo is a kind of an office i roll on, roll off container. In here they have the possibity for communication : only used when there is terrible accident. We call it: Brandweer Commando Unit ( BCU ) . Also police has this kind of units of in complete van.
Dutch roads are the cream of the crop ;p
White: Police, Yellow: Ambulance, Red: Firefighting
that volvo is a communication centre
Have you seen Jan-Willem?
i live in the Netherlands and the most important thing is that everybody here takes sirens serious
not everybody
Here you can see the hookloaders driving without containers to get new containers with other equipment and to bring it on scene.
th-cam.com/video/0ojtYElRVyQ/w-d-xo.htmlsi=7yLHSzNOEGTr9Gfr
We have so much different containers like for breathing apparatus, logistics (food/drinks/toilets), mobile commandcontainers, dispatchcontainers, watertanks, wrecked cars for training in containers, flashover training containers, extra lightcontainers, Heavy Rescue Containers, containers with shipfirematerials, containers with stretchers and medical equipment for the ambulance. But also the police use mobile containers for Crime Scene Investigation, anti terror units, Command rooms, to transport cars from criminals or from accicent for investigation and also for CBRN calls to decontaminate people. Not only they use it also the railroad rescuers from ProRail Incidentenbestrijding use these systems with containers for derailed trains and broken trains. They can drive on the traintracks, video: th-cam.com/video/lqbWIYjREmo/w-d-xo.html
Yeah Dutch roads designs are the best I've see here in Europe. They're realy sexy looking
White is police, red is firebrigade, yellow is medic.
On 05:16 that is a mobile command unit
It makes me chuckle how they are more often then not using the bike path (red surface) to bypass traffic
4:51 that is a lab on weels
Notice how the bike lanes are extra wide so the emergency vehicles can use them when there is nowhere for the traffic to move (red paths).
Greetings from a Dutch firefighter 👋🏻
White with striping = Police
Red with striping = Fire Fighters
Yellow with striping = Ambulance
Dark blue with striping = Military Police
Grey with striping = Explosive Unit from Defense
Yellow with Red and striping = Organ Donation
That truck around 05:10 is probably something like a mobile command center that they can place at bigger incidents.
Lanesplitting is legal in the Netherlands but there are rules. On the highway it's only allowed during traffic jams between the most left two lanes (so cars know what to expect), the speed difference should not exceed 10kph and you are advised to run your hazzard lights. When traffics starts moving above a certain speed you should resume your normal position on the road. (I believe above 50kph). In normal city traffic it's common for motorcycles to pull up to the light in front of the cars. On average the motorcycles are much faster off the line than cars so it should bother nobody. It's more efficient to because the cars can move up a little too because there are no motorcycles taking up a space in the line.
I believe all emergency vehicles are diesel cars for fuel efficiency and cost, diesel is cheaper. Plus they are on the road almost 24/7. I know the police here also started testing electric vehicles like the Hyundai Ionic 5
Big VOLVO with container:
In the netherlands and germany (and some more european countries i guess), the fire departments in larger cities have many containers for all sorts of emergencies. For example one office container for the commander you would need when managing hundreds of people at a big scene, or maybe a container with special equipment for chemical issues. Big cities also work together and own different special equipment which can be used to support the fire departments in nearby cities, which creates a big variety of possibilities. City A has more chemical equipment, City B is better equipped when it comes to climbing and so on... So imagine dozens of special containers, each for a special purpose. Since you don't need all containers every day, it makes more sense that they are just containers and you own only a few trucks to load the container you need at the moment. Otherwise there would be some expensive trucks standing in the fire station only to be used twice a year... The VOLVO would be one of these container trucks i guess. If you goolge "Feuerwehrcontainer" you will find at least german ones but our brothers in the netherlands usually use the same equipment.
Toyota landcruiser PRADO, maybe Toyota landcruiser 250 in the US
The unmarked Volvo V60 and the Mercedes firetruck aren't Dutch. The Volvo had German plates and the Mercedes firetruck had Belgian plates.
White = police (politie). Red = fire department (brandweer). Yellow = Ambulance. Fire department doesn't do ambulance services in the Netherlands. Ambulance services aren't integrated into the fire department (like they are in the US). The Volvo is a red fire truck, hence the 'container' isn't an ambulance, but a command post for the fire department.
brandweer = fire truck: red, politie = police: white, ambulance = ambulance: yellow
Red with striping and blue lights = Fire department (brandweer)
Yellow with striping and blue lights = Ambulance (ambulance)
White with striping and blue lights = Police (politie)
Green with striping and blue lights = Veiligheidsregio (regional emergency management)
Dark blue with striping and blue lights = Royal Netherlands Military Police / Border Police (Koninklijke Marechaussee)
The Volvo is a hook loader so it can drop the any type of cabin, Unit or skip off the back. In this case it looks like a mobile command unit / incident response unit.
Each service branch has it's own distinctive color and sound/siren:
The yellow color is used for medical emergencies, where as red (firefighter) and white (police).
In this clip, I think the yellow ambulances are from the SIGMA-unit -a special division solely used in case of large incidents/disasters. (Not sure if they are, but considering the fire brigade sends out the Volvo VC-units (mobile command center) at 4:25min
At 6:47min thinks it's a 'anonymus' car from the police department...
1:17min Looks also like a car from the VC-units (commanding officer,...)...
You should see the MICU ambulance. The Mobile Intensive Care Unit - trucks.
Fun fact from the past. Each force used to have thei their own distinct sound, but are slowly switching over to a singular emergency sound.
Brand-weer (fire department), two syllables, two tone alarm. Most fire trucks still have the two tones, like most trucks in this video still.
Po-li-tie (police), three syllables, three tone alarm
Am-Bu-Lan-Ce (medical), four syllables, four tone alarm (very rare to hear these days)
the volvo unit was transporting a mobile command unit, usually deployed when things REALLY went bad
Brandweer = Firetruck. Politie = Police. Ambulance = ambulance The striping is simular patern but differ per organization. Police is Red, Blue an White, The Firetrucks is more Red and then White and Blue
Regarding the video you were watching: I would be on high alert by the sound and sight of the first 2 cars, immediately knowing something huge and awful was happening nearby due to the various commander cars from the police and the firefighters and the medics! The goosebumps I have now just by listening to all the sirenes!
PS: as far as I know, no diesel, none of them. Others may correct me if I'm wrong.
5:00 thats a container and the unit has a mechanism to lower the container on the street. It says Police, FD and ambulance, so i would guess its some sort of mobile office from where big scences or incidents are handled.
The truck can lower it, drive back to the department and get a different container to scene. So you need just one truck for a lot of functionality
And by the way, the unmarked volvo is German. You see that on the licence plate. White in front and back and you have the D to the left
After the Volvo you saw like a van, some fire stations in the Netherlands has built them like for coffee by long incidents
Nope, it is a mobile command unit which can be dropped off anywhere near a large fire or accident and such. Inside are representatives of the fire department, ambulance and police to coordinate large scale events.
5:30 The fire truck rides over the bycicle path, you wont see that happening in the US :-)
The Landcruiser at 4.08 was correct, but to me it looked more like a brand called LDV. GWM (Great Wall Motor Group) is the parent company of LDV, Great Wall, Mazda, Haval & I think KG mobility. Also a few Chinese only cars like Wey. Based in China, with factories in a lot of Asian countries (India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia). Haval is the biggest market of the GWM group. Specialising in SUV's & 4x4's.
The basis of each car = Red/Whit/Blue ... our national colours ..only the paramdics/ambulances ... have a bright yellow/green instead of white
Toyota RAV4 is called the same in Europe. I think they only sell hybrids now.
Goedemorgen, i am from the Netherlands and you're right about the roadplanning, aspecially for bikes.
Hi, That big red BRANDWEER (fire brigade) truck is a mobile opmmand unit. It will be placed on the ground at te scene. Kind greetings from a policeofficer (motorwaypolice) from the Netherlands, Paul
Yeah, they do look sharp and they do work hard to keep us safe and alive... Buuuuuuuuuut~😋
The Dutch have an Emergency Response "ace" up their sleeve for when they need to roll out the _really_ big guns:
The American (yep, 'Murica) E-One Titan crashtender; packed with mindbending amounts of firefighting power and a big ol' 12 cylinder turbocharged Detroit Diesel belching out 1005 buff all-American ponies this baby can work some firefighting magic😁 (I may be -ever so slightly - biased here, having served in the Air Force😆)
These are usually stationed at Air Force bases and at Schiphol, but have been known to assist civilian firefighters😄
Sounds like a diesel? (7:39) Almost every car used by companies (almost every van, like a Mercedes Sprinter) is a diesel, this is the same for government owned cars. Diesels are more economical and have a longer life span than a compared petrol powerd engine. The dutch highway polices uses diesels as well. The Audi A6 3.0 TDI (272 hp) and before the Audi’s they used Volvo V70’s D5 2.4 5-cil diesel powerd cars. Fuel is expensive in Europe and nothing drives better than a diesel-powered station wagon, like a Volvo V60, Audi’s, VW’s, Mercedeses and BMW’s.
that unmarked Volvo V60 isn't Dutch, looks like German numberplatess
Dutch streets are different. they incorporate cycle paths, unique in Europe.......diesel cars dyng out, now illegal to sell from new...
yellow emergency cars with the red and blue stripes: Ambulance
red emergency vehicles with the red white and blue stripes: Brandweer: Fire fighters
white emergency vehicles with red and blue stripes: Politie: Police
Politie = police (whit + red/blue stripes)
Ambulance = yellow
Brandweer = Fire department (red)
The black unmarked car looks like a VIP protection services car. License plates looked German, not Dutch.
The vehicles at 10:30 were Belgian, not Dutch, btw.
Police: White
Ambulance: Yellow
Fire: Red
MP: Blue
Btw, the red tarmac means that they are bicycle lanes.
In the vid you see several emergency vehicles use those lanes to skip trafic on the roads.