American Reacts to Interesting Emergency Vehicles in Versailles
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France has a lot of unmarked police cars, especially in Paris where a lot of these videos are shot. Much more common than in the US, or anywhere else in Europe. Like I said in previous videos, the French sirens are very effective and they are tuned like real music. The fire truck siren is tuned in a major second, the police siren is tuned in a perfect fourth, and the rapid response ambulance at 5:05 and the ambu at 7:19 are tuned in a perfect fifth. Very rewarding to listen to. The car at 5:05 is a Mitsubishi Pajero, the police car at 6:55 is a Ford Mondeo wagon, which is indead the Fusion in the US.
You say that the fire truck at 6:33 is quite compact. Well, in a big city, this is normal size. Compared to a normal US fire truck, these EU trucks are about half the length and at least 1 meter less wide.
The pajero was a SMUR véhicule, 1 doctor with 1 paramedic who give help to the first responder.
Provincial vehicules are more wide and long obviously, especially in the south of France where everything is burning all summer. California/Australia vibes so they need to havee these bad boys.
We missed a lot of good Sapeurs Pompiers vehicules and a lot of good Gendarmerie vehicules by the fact that everything is shot in Paris.
En France, nous disons "break" au lieu de "wagon". Du coup, c'est une Ford Mondeo break haha
In France we'd say Ford Mondeo break, yes !
the Mitsubishi at 5:40 is a SMUR unit. SMUR stands for Structure Mobile Urgence et Reanimation, or Emergency and Reanimation Mobile Unit. It's also called SAMU sometimes. Usually when you see them run in SUVs or cars it's a medical team coming in as back-up to an emergency. They operate and are dispatched out of hospitals, and also have their own ambulances. The main difference between them and the ambulances of the fire department is that the fire department ambulances are dispatched out of fire stations (duh), SMUR ambulances are white or white and yellow, and SMUR teams are always composed of a trauma doctor or trauma surgeon, a nurse, a driver and sometimes a pediatrician or an anesthesist. It's often referred to as a mobile hospital reanimation team. Also, inside their ambulance it is decked out like a mobile operating room to perform emergency procedures such as a bypass, or specific procedures to liberate airways.
SAMU and SMUR aren't the same thing, SAMU answers calls and SMUR is a mobile unit sent to the spot, SAMU is often written on SMUR cars because it is often sent by them
There is no equivalent in the us but the field surgeons. Us philosophy is catch and run. They pack up the victim and try to keep them alive until they reach the hospital. France first stabilize the victim then transport them. Hence the smur
some times they can be ecmo team too
to give a bit of the context, when you see this kind of vehicule, there is a very nasty show somewhere on the road, those people are bad news, one of their task is stabilizing victims so they can survive an helicopter medevac.
@@nraynaud survive any kind of medevac. They come as soon as the life is in the balance, be it trauma or simple heart attack.
In fact they are the only onsite people that can legally call to a stop cpr once started (they are doctors). Without them firefighters and other rescue personels have to keep administering all emergency technics until the victim is at the hospital. So usually they are sent as soon as such a call might be necessary.
I am an American living in Germany. Something we have here and in most European countries is an emergency doctor supporting ambulance calls. They travel in their own vehicle where needed and continue to another location afterwards if needed. They do not travel in the ambulance. Only EMTs travel in them. Paramedics are seldom seen over here as they do not fit into the structure here.
That's right, in France, they call them SMUR (Structure Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation, in english, Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Structure) as you can see in the middle of this video at 05:20
It differ we have support doctor in vehicle mostly are young doctors as their first job, here are in use also motocycle ambulance guys in most cases, because it is quicker than the car they are deployed as a pair. Not always but in 70% of cases the motocycle is in use as well.
In Denmark (at least in the town where I live) the firefighters have the chief in a separate car like the ambulance services. Tho the chief usually only goes with the firefighters if they are responding to a big incident, like a major crash site, environmental site, major fire, etc.
Correction: Paramedics are very frequently seen in Germany. At least the German counterpart "Notfallsanitäter". But well, I think an American paramedic is allowed to do more stuff, what is here only allowed to the emergency physician. EMT or the German Counterpart "Rettungssanitäter" are also common. A German ALS Ambulance (Rettungswagen), which is the standard type of ambulance responding to emergency calls, is staffed with at least one Notfallsanitäter and one Rettungssanitäter.
I think other European countrys might have similar levels of qualification, but I'm not an expert in this.
In Italy we have BLS ambulance with 2 or 3 emt-basic (sort of) and ALS ambulance with 2 emt, an emergency nurse and a doctor (in some cases without the doctor). Doctor and nurses can also be in a car (alone or together)
in France, relief for victims follows a particular "philosophy" which can be summarized as follows:
It is the emergency service which moves to the site of the accident and not the victim who is moved as quickly as possible.
With the doctors, and the equipment of an emergency service on site, absolute emergency medical acts can be considered on the spot if necessary,
after the victim is moved to hospital services.
Much the same applies in the UK., years ago it was scoop and scoot, Then there was a review and now the front line 'emergency' ambulances are crewed to work on a casualty on site, stabilizing the person before moving . It is a system that saves lives.
@@solentbum it's a system than English didn't understand when lady Diana had her accident...
The SMUR suv is for cardiac emergency
It's actually a concept created in Germany and it's now used in most of europe. "Stay and play" vs american concept "Scoop and go".
Its pike that in almost every country though?
Ok so you already know me, the french graduated ambulance man… 😜
- SMUR is the mobile service for any life emergency first aid, it’s he hospital’s service. They use either SUV or SWagon with 3 people inside: ambulance man driving (it could have been me), doctor, nurse. When they’re alone like this, another vehicle for casualty carrying the wounded person is not far or already on site.
- the Jussieu Secours ambulance truck is a private casualty carrying service, only a graduated ambulance man (me again) and a not graduated one that has first aid certifications though.
- the red firemen casualty carrying trucks (the first Renault one you saw) does the same as the private service ambulance, with a few more options inside though. No doctor or nurse inside, only firemen.
So how it works now:
1- you call the SAMU: it’s a call center with doctors, ambulance men, nurses that receive your « 911 » call (in France we do the 15 on the phone), there’s one in each departement, so 95 at least in european France, there are otjers in Guadeloupe, Guyana, et ..
2- they decide what vehicle then will do the rescue, they choose if it will be the firemen, the SMUR, or the private ambulance service.
3- if it’s a vital life engaging matter, SMUR SW or SUV with doctor + truck from either firemen or SMUR truck or private ambulance service truck (Jussieu here) depending on the needs and what is available at the moment.
Hope it helps you understand 😉
Excellent comment thank You for that 🎉😎👍
@@IWrocker What year does the video come from because it seems to me to be old?
De manière simplifiée c'est ça
Oh un camarade DEA ! Ça bosse dans quel coin ?
Here's a full list of the vehicles:
Renault Master
Iveco Daily
The utility truck is a Citroen Jumper or Peugeot Boxer or Fiat Ducato (same vehicle, different badge)
Two more Renault Masters
Mk.3 Renault Laguna (unmarked police cars are very common in Europe generally, I believe in France they're only used by detective units, in the UK there are unmarked patrol cars, as well)
Mitsubishi Shogun/Pajero, or Montero as it was known in the US
Mercedes Axor
Mk.4 Ford Mondeo (the US Ford Fusion was sold in Europe as the Mk.5 Mondeo)
Fiat Ducato
Peugeot 207 and Mk.3 Renault Megane
Citroen Berlingo
Renault Master
Citroen Berlingo and Citroen Jumper.
at 9:37 it is a Peugeot Boxer, not a Citroën Jumper. We see the front grill with 2 large matching colored bars, with the lion in a black area at the center
I believe unmarked paolice car are also used for patrol and pusuit
Unmarked patrol cars are a thing in France too, especially for traffic surveillance.
oh man, you definitely need to see some video of the Citroen C-15. The van for everything indestructible. There are even memes about it 🤓 I have had the Citroen Visa with the same engine and it is unbreakable
ON VEUT DU C15 !!!!!! 😂😅😊
Props to you Ian, for not saying "Ver-sales" like a certain game show host.
Lol actually for Paris, this level of traffic is considered as “calm” (outside of holidays)! 😂 Normally it’s stop and go traffic during the day and quite heavy but flowing during the night.
Pitch of emergency vehicle sirens in France
- police, La - Ré (A - D) A being the A above the middle C
- gendarmerie (rural police), La - Fa (A - F)
- firefighters, LA - Si (A - B).
- SAMU (medical emergency service) La - MI (A - E)
- other ambulances Sol - Do - Sol - 1 second silence (G - C - G - / /)
Note that the pitch as heard is affected by Doppler effect depending on vehicle speed, but the "melody" is easy to recognize
In France, sirens are sometimes replaced by simple phrases to better identify the service.
Firefighter : "Au Feu"
Samu : "t'es foutu"
For the others, I don't remember.
@@guillaumelablanche2959 or : ‘V’la les 22’
@@guillaumelablanche2959
Nope
"T'es foutu" it's private ambulance in emergency but not in SAMU service.
SAMU Siren is "tiens bon"
I know them very well, I'm a french EMT
For medical vehicle, two note is normal siren, three note is for vital emergency
@@ludovicfalcot Actually in France at least three tone vehicles do not have priority. You just have to facilitate their way
Versailles is kind of small, but it was the residence of the king, just next to Paris, so it's still relatively busy. On average people living in Versailles are more on the wealthy side, plus there's the historic and touristy side of it, with the Chateau de Versailles and it's gardens, so I'm not surprised that the city is equiped with a range of efficient and well maintained vehicles. I'd say that french emergency vehicles are good, but depending on the area of the country you're in you'll find some older equipment, or less maintained ones.
The SUV is part of the SMUR (emergency medical service and resuscitation) it is under them that transports a doctor to the scene of an accident
The Iveco Daily Van, even as a dual rear, is probably still only a 3.5T version. They do them up to 7.5T but the back end is beefed up a LOT.
The SMUR wagon is a Mitsubishi Pajero/Shogun (depending on where you are).
Unmarked car was a Renault Laguna... Later ones are a rare sight here in the UK
The estate marked Police car is a Ford Mondeo in Europe. Came as a hatchback, sedan or wagon
5:41 It is a SMUR vehicle (EMS).
In France, in case of a medical emergency, one would call the "SAMU", a platform that receives emergency medical calls. Each département (a territorial subdivision) operates a SAMU (hence why on some vehicles you can see things like "SAMU 78", it means it is the SAMU from departement 78, Yvelines, west of Paris). The SAMU operator is a trained doctor that will assess the caller's medical situation and act accordingly. Depending on the seriousness of the situtation, the SAMU may ask SOS Médecins to send a GP, the fire department to send an ambulance or, in case of life-threatning situations the SAMU will dispatch a SMUR unit (Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service) that is basically a fully equipped ambulance with a paramedic, a nurse and a doctor. Smaller vehicles (such as the SUV in the video) can be sent along for extra material and/or extra personel
All nice and good, but please don't call it a SUV😢! We're talking about the "King of the Desert" here, multiple times winner of the Paris-Dakar Rally... it is definitely a ATV (all terrain vehicle)!
The sirens on U.K. emergency vehicles are like your American sirens, and I agree it is hard to tell in which direction they are coming from.
yes I remember as a kid knowing clear where the siren was coming from them those who knew better fucked it up.
red ones are firefighters/rescue vehicles, white ones marked "SAMU" or "SMUR" are ambulances
You ought to check out older Citroen DS and CX converted into ambulances (with hydropneumatic suspension) which were excellent for transporting patients with spinal injuries. Heuliez did most of these conversions using a DS or CX Safari as the base car (as well as making the BX and XM estate cars for Citroen). Then there were Tissier DS, CX and XM conversions with the extra long wheelbase which had six wheels with double rear axles.
I agree DS were the best ambulances throughout the 60s 70s. The best way to take the patient as fast as possible to the hospital, maybe a medic could uncomfortably sit by the patient.
Nowadays the strategy is different instead of racing car, the ambulance is more a mobile hospital where a couple of doctors can provide a wide range emergency treatments.
I agree DS were the best ambulances throughout the 60s 70s. The best way to take the patient as fast as possible to the hospital, maybe a medic could uncomfortably sit by the patient.
Nowadays the strategy is different instead of racing car, the ambulance is more a mobile hospital where a couple of doctors can provide a wide range of treatments.
In France, blue lights are only and purposefully for emergency vehicles. It goes from the Police, firefighters, ambulance, fast responding ambulances but even snow plows and trucks to salt roads in winter.
motorway service vehicles also
@DarkRaptor illegally.
5:50 The *SMUR* -vehicles are from the _Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Structures_ ( *S* tructures *M* obiles d' *U* rgence et de *R* éanimation), means:
if there's no time (or capacities) for an ambulance or the help must arrive asap, the SMUR-units are much more narrow to pass through traffic, but also bc they may take shortcuts by driving over sidewalks and similar road issues, which a regular ambulance can't do, due to its dimensions, weight, etc.
You were right on the Mitsubishi. In the states they were called Montero. In the UK they were a Shogun. Most other countries there were the Pajero. Australia also used them in the police force and fire. The Ford was a Ford mondeo. When you look at the Fiat vans think of your Ram vam as that is what the Ram is. A re badged Fiat.
Well, after 3 weeks I think you got a response for this, but I’ll still add mine lol
At 5:20, that SUV is a vehicle of the SMUR, or Urgent Medical Help Service (Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente) that transports a doctor to the scene of an accident to take thorough care before the transportation in the ambulance of the Sapeur Pompiers that is usually the first responders to arrive. Also, theses two types of Medical responders has different numbers to call in case of an emergency: there’s the 15, for pure medical emergency, like a heart attack, the 18, for less specific emergencies like a fire, gas leak, car accident… There’s also the 17, the Police, the 112, that I highly recommend if you’re a tourist because I gives access to all emergency services in only 1 number to memorize, all like 911 I guess, and you can get translated instructions from it. Finally there’s the 114 that is for deaf persons (you talk by text to emergency servicies), It can also be very useful for many emergency situations when you can’t talk like a kidnapping. Anyway, I hope this helped you, and congrats to whoever made it this far.
Those Renault ambo's and the work truck at 2:40 are front wheel drive, if you look at the back axle, it's a solid beam.
Great info thanks 🎉 that’s different, I’d of never guessed that
thoses "renault traffic" ambulances/firetrucks (in france fire dpt. is also called for medical emergencies, every red emergency truck is the 'pompiers' (fire departement) are a great choice to convert to campers, as you said it's very big inside theses box. and very well designed!
(lived need that place shown ^^)
Hey! As a French person I can help you out with some :
- 5:50 The SMUR is a doctor who responds to critical emergencies with the firefighters.
- 7:14 It is a Ford Escort or Mondeo wagon, I'm bot really sure... we see a lot of them, they are very practical
5'04" It is a mobile emergency and resuscitation vehicle. On board, a doctor, 1 or 2 nurses and a driver (often an ambulance driver). This vehicle does not have a stretcher because it often comes as a reinforcement to a fire brigade ambulance already on site.
You might think these Renault SAMU's/SMUR's are small, but they carry an almost fully operational OR on wheels + medical team. When answering a call first responders can come from multiple sites and can be a small van, or even a regular car. Next to those a firetruck is dispatched for the heavy work. All of these guys are fucking hero's
5:45 SMUR is emergency vehicles but unlike the red ones, their crew members are the driver (who also helps his crew when arrived at a scene), a nurse and a doctor. So when we see a SMUR vehicle, we know it’s really serious, more than the red van’s emergency vehicles and you can tell the way they get more quickly impatient in traffic and drive really fast.
SMUR is like an emergency medical team made to act in emergency in the domicile before the ambulance. For example they can be dispatched for cardiac arrest, and assist victims in their domicile
at 5:34 it is a smur vehicule, it stand for Mobile Emergency and reanimation service it is like paramedic
The ford estate/wagon is a ford mondeo, even the ford fusion you mentioned would also be a newer gen mondeo here
Hi, i'm a French paramedic and it's not the police at 5:51 it's Emergency Mobile Unit. In France when you call for an emergency an ambulance is sent but we're just two paramedic and when the emergency got worst (needing a medical assistance) we call a SMUR for back which is a team of three people a Paramedic, a nurse and a Doctor to revive and stabalize the patient before evac
Another nice video!
The "Ford fusion wagon" in this video is called a Ford Mondeo here in Europe. They can be bought as a sedan and a wagon.
SMUR stands for Structure Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation.
They have the mission to provide 24 hours a day, on the decision of the medical regulator of the SAMU, in all places and throughout the territory, the medicalization of interventions with patients whose condition requires monitoring or emergency medical care
Fully red painted car/light truck with "18" are fire departement, white painted with blue stickers with "15" are the "SMUR" are emergency medical (hospital) support, cars without marking but with blue light flashing are police cars, other police cars are painted white with "17" and/or "police" stickers, latest one are painted grey.
The red ambulances are specifically fire-ambulances, operated by the Paris Fire Brigade. The transcription roughly reads "firefighters rescue and victims assistance vehicle."
2:08 Yes, the Iveco daily are indeed "heavy duty" because they are pretty much all armored, some more heavily than others, this one was on the lighter side.
Regarding unmarked vehicles in France, it's quite different from the US, because US unmarked are still police spec vehicles that differ from the normal production ones, exhaust tips, wheels, sometimes bumpers, ground clearance, obvious lights and obvious radio equipment all give away the vehicle at a glance. In France, unmarked vehicles are just normal cars, and MUCH more difficult to spot, all they have is reduced radio equipment, because there are no visible lights (they usually use a single magnetic light on the roof when needed, like the Peugeot 207 and Renault Megane you've seen at 7:48). Some of the unmarked vehicle are also obvious because they're heavily armored, so they will have a completely different suspension setup and specific wheels with smaller rims to accommodate airless tires, but that's not the usual kind.
If you want to see a variety of police vehicles, there's a channel here on TH-cam that's called "Stephane Paris Production" that shows mostly police convoys, and it shows quite a variety of police vehicles and convoys in France mostly, from normal Police vans to super heavily armored "normal" vehicles and even some exotic stuff (i.e. non police armored stuff for VIP protection).
Bonjour, @IWrocker !
The Mitsubishi SUV at 5:50 is a SMUR = Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation = Mobile Emergency and Reanimation Service. This kind of car takes a doctor and his gear to a place where 1) there is already a FD ambulance without a doctor or 2) takes a doctor to an emergency site faster (I mean a lot !) than an ambulance.
A SMUR belongs to a SAMU = Service d'Aide Médicale d'Urgence = Emergency Medical Assistance Service.
Please note tha the emergency services « strategy » in France differs from a lot of countries, including the USA. In the US, you'll send an ambulance with paramedics, whose mission is to bring a patient back to an hospital's ER as quickly as possible.
In France, in cas of a « heavy » emergency, you'll send and ambulance _with_ a doctor on board. The mission will be to do whatever it takes on site to allow safe transport to an hospital. Thus, we often see ambulances remaining a long time on site, bringing additionnal doctors, nurses or gear, if required. Then the transport part itself, if most of the time done at a rather low speed.
In France there is distinctive 1st responders :
Marked Police cars or vans. Formerly white and black (with a comeback to that retro look) but usually white with mostly blue stripes.
Marked red firetrucks or ambulances manned by firemens. Military Sapeurs-pompiers in and around Paris, Military-Navy Marins-Pompiers in and around Marseille, just pompiers everywhere else.
White ambulances or cars marked SAMU (Service d'Aide Médicale d'Urgence / Urgent Medical Care Service) or SMUR like the one at 5:20 (Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation / Mobile ICU) sometimes with added markings for pediatric care (those are the most users of police escorts, for good reasons).
Whites ambulances with orange stripe and blue triangle marked Protection civile are analog to what FEMA does. They are always present at any big outdoors event.
Red cross ambulances.
Unmarked police cars are used either by patrolling squad in plain clothes (la BAC) or by detectives (formely inspecteurs, today lieutenant, capitaine, commandant and still commissaires).
The philosophy is, as stated by someone else, to bring the medical team and doctors to the site.
During the 1995 terrorist attack in a RER (regional subway) station in the center of Paris, a field hospital was even set up even though one of the many hospitals was across the bridge at walking distance. The victims were then sent to the appropriate hospital for their injuries or to not overcrowed the nearest hospital.
When a temporary public stand collapsed during a football (soccer) match in Corsica, that system made it possible to transport the victims to trauma centers as far as Marseille and Paris by planes.
Keep in mind many of the vehicle manufacturer supply cab chassis vehicles and the end user gets a third party to build a custom body on the rear chassis space.
It is not necessarily the vehicle manufacturer that supplies the variant you see as emergency, police or commercial vehicle.
The car at 7:14 is a Ford Mondeo, Europe's version of the Ford Fusion. They're sold as sedans, hatchbacks and station wagons here.
5:08 Judging by the model of the car (Renault Laguna) and the policeman's attire, I would say it was not an undercover officer's car but rather a close security officer's, here in France, close security of the president and officials is not Secret Service's jurisdiction but Police Nationale's (not to be mistaken with Police Municipale, which is more like the local cops, they are often regarded as bonified mall cops, as some of them may have guns but in most cases they won't and most of their job is giving parking fines).
Edit : 8:01 these are indeed more "undercover" cars, those are cars the anti-crime brigade, known as "BAC" here, would use. These were a Peugeot 207 (the black one) and a Renault Megane, both of them exist with 200 HPish engines, have great chassis and are easily modified because they're used in racing series notably rallye and there are a ton of them on the roads (most of them without the biggest engine available and even more without mods, as driving a modded cars here on the road is very very risky regarding your driving license and potential seizing of your car; if you mod it, it's track only ;)) which make them very good cars for those kind of endeavours. About hints giving them out, if they're parked and you can get up close there might be some cluey details, like the CB radio, blue removable gyro and Police sun blocks you can get, but in traffic you would only notice them when it's too late ^^
These were shot at Versailles, it's about 15 miles away from Paris, there's a 'small' château there, nice gardens :P
@DarkRaptor I'm responding to what Ian is saying at 5:08 the laguna is in the previous few seconds.
-Our France' Firefighter truck (or ambulance as you said in the beginning (The Red one)) are compact because of our roads and cities planning. Street could being very veyr tight.
-We got a very bunch of unmarked "police" cars. They can be both Gendarmerie and Police. As well the Police unmarked car can be drived by BAC unit which are a specialized police unit.
- Then for the Third vehicule : This is the SAMU' car with the SMUR crew. It's a a special Hospital Unit with a Medic, a nurse and an ambulance driver which are deployed for vital emergency. Now they have the same siren as the US. We mostly have Mitsubishi and Wolkswagen Amaroc for this units.
-The Ford police car is probably the Ford Mondeo III. Police can have any type of vehicule. But they mostly have Renault ones
-The Jussieu Secours ambulance is a Private ambulance (Which is not own by the State). Jussieu is the most important private Ambulance compagny in France. We do separate Ambulance and FireFighter.
6:53 -- I did some research and the French police in the city of Montpelier had a Ford Crown Victoria in their fleet. Additionally, some local municipalities are equipped with a Ford Interceptor.
In Portugal some unmarked cars are inpounded cars and sometimes people lend them to the police in exchange of a lower ticket, other times they become forgotten and the police keeps them... and lights are mobile and attach to the windowscreen with succion cups and they use the lighter port to get power... as for the siren, its a simple installation also. These kind of vehicles are mostly used for mobile radar camping.
Versailles is a commune in the department of the Yvelines, Île-de-France, located in the western suburbs of the French capital, 17.1 km (10.6 mi) from the centre of Paris, thus Versailles is a wealthy suburb of Paris. The population of the city is 86000 inhabitants.
Amazing to see your own city on TH-cam. I live just a few minutes walking away from the spot on the video
The SMUR car ( The jeep one) is part of the SAMU. But what’s the SAMU ? It’s fast response Intensive medical response and are basically the best EMS units you can see in France. Includes cars, ambulances and even helicopters.
I would have thought the doppler (change in pitch of the siren as it comes toward or away from you) would help to identify roughly where the emergency vehicle is, but when it's right behind you - yes - it can be a real surprise when you think it's somewhere off in the distance.
The SMUR Mitsubishi vehicle is a rapid unit used in France to carry doctors to emergency scenes.
As a french firefighter, this video seems really old like early 2010 or even some late 2000
About the van at 2:30 , up to 3.5 tons is the "normal" car driving licence. These are built to stay under that limit because not only would you need a truck licence that is not cheap, but a whole other set of rules. so most choose this type of utlity van or jump to a truck over 7.5 tons.
Most of work tuck with utility flatbeds are based on small truck like ford transits . They usually are equiped with a hydraulic tilt bed to unload at local dump
Hi I'm from France,for the black car (Renault Laguna) you saw without any light but with the siren, it's a car from the BAC (brigade anti criminalité - Anti-Crime Squad).
The little lights that you can take and put on top of car and take off used to be called a gumball machine
Thanks for the interest of french emergency vehicles..for me the most "prioritaire" vehicle is the mitsubishi SMUR vehicle ..(Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation),usually painted in yellow..a team of first aid with docs,the most reactive team in case of accident...
Now we have new police cars, Peugeot in gray tones (more pretty 😉😜)
But the "2 tons" siren is still in service, compared to your big horns 👍
I often look at youtube vids of american fire vehicles and...wow....they are so amazing !!👌
Hello from France mate 😉👋
At 5:55 it's SMUR. Service médical d'urgence de réanimation. Resuscitation emergency medical service.
In France, firefighters are also first responders for public environment, and traumatology.
Ambulance are more for medical emergencies, on private environment.
Firefightersalso got cars for head corporate, or nurses.
SMUR is a car with nurse, nurse assistant and a doctor, for vital emergency
those damn blue lights are a nightmare at night, destroy the eyes lol
7:09 it's called Ford Mondeo here.
The fusion name was used for an oversized Fiesta in the 2000s, as failed attempt to compete with Renault Modus and Fiat Multipla / Idea, Opel Meriva and stuff. Or maybe did it act like a tiny elevated wagon version ? Either way, it had unclear positionning.
SMUR - Service mobile d'urgence et de réanimation. They usually are called by the ambulances sometimes if the call is serious enough they will be sent out immediately in a proper ambulance. They are the once that have the doctors on board.
In France the undercover cops like the BAC (anti criminality brigade) uses mostly volkswagen Passat, Ford Mondeo and Skoda octavia but they can be using a lot more different model
From French :
These are mostly historical sirens...
3 tones = Non-urgent medical (White Private Ambulance)
2 tones = Urgent (Fireman and Fireman helping victims "VSAV" - SAMU or SMUR Emergency Medical, Police/Gendarmerie)
There may be private Ambulances with the authorization of SAMU or SMUR which in these specific cases may be in emergency vehicles and used 2 tones.
You should know that the 3 tones are not priority as are the 2 tones, but benefit from an ease of passage, according to the law the 3 tones vehicles cannot therefore run out of red lights and can even have controls or fines.
Do not confuse Ambulances in Summary:
Private Ambulance (White and blue) 3 tones
SAMU/SMUR ambulance (White and blue with yellow) 2 tones
Firefighter "VSAV" Ambulance (Red) 2 tones
Thank you and you're welcome.
PS : But for some time our SAMU/SMUR
Use in experimentation an American sierne in addition to the classic 2 tone.
They use everything here it's crazy. If you look up gendarmerie Alpine you'll see them using the new A110 alpine sports coupes on the highway it's nuts.
8:29 that little Renault is called a Twingo, issued late 90's. It was almost considered like a joke but was a total success! Despite the ridiculous look this tiny car has a lot of space, was cheap and reliable (ish). This car kinda saved Renault who sold millions of it.
Frenchies citizens must (always) react sooner or later to correct a video like this of emergency or security vehicles and characteristics sounds which go back to our childhood. 😅
The flatbed transit vans are very common in europe. I think they make sense.
I am once again asking for your finan- reaction to Portuguese emergency vehicles! There's everything from Renault to Skoda! INEM has really cool yellow ambulances, PSP has your regular police vehicles but pretty cool looking and some riot vehicles as well, and GNR has everything from patrol cars to wildland fire engines. Sadly I doubt you'll be able to find many GNR vehicles on TH-cam as these videos are usually recorded in Lisbon or Porto (the bigger cities) and GNR is a gendarmerie, so a military force responsible for policing rural areas.
(The fire engines are cool too but their looks and liveries are common across Europe. There's more variety in police vehicles, but you can search for Jacinto fire trucks to see trucks produced by a Portuguese company on usually MAN frames.)
😊 I’ll relay the message to Ian :) if he hasn’t seen this yet
@@midnightkitchen8379 Thank you so much! Make sure to apologize to him for this being the 100000th time I ask for it tho xD
I don’t know when the video was shot but the SMUR in the yvelines (area where Versailles is located) use mostly toyota Land Cruisers. Given the vehicles shown this might be 5 years old, the ford police car was a ford mondeo.
The philosophy of first aid is different in France than in the USA. The ambulance is like a mini hospital with lots of equipment and a doctor. We try to stabilize the patient before taking him to the hospital. Light vehicle tagged SMUR are for cardiac emergency response...
Versailles is a posh and conservative suburbs in the West / Southwest of Paris.
It's also where many services are centralized for this suburban department / district and some of the neighboring towns are a LOT less posh.
So it's not unusual to see a lot of blue lights around there.
HEY men love your video I'm from France and at 5:45 it's a SMUR vehicule (in french : Service Mobile d'Urgence et de Réanimation; in english it's : Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service) it's like when "Pompier" can't Resuscitate someone so they call the SMUR; next at 7:50 this unit in france is called BAC (brigade anti-criminalité, anti-crime squad) and you are right they are always in car that's undercover so they can be discreet and the thing on top of the car in french we call it gyrophare or goutte (beacon or drop) if you need help for any question on french emergency car don't hesitate that's it hope i've help
5:54 It is the SMUR - Mobile Emergency and Resuscitation Service in english - that travels by ambulance to recover people in emergency situations (Mostly everything related to the heart or brain)
The Ford Police car is a Mondéo. The Mitsubishi SMUR is adapted for doctor emergency in every kind of terrain. 😉
1: Renault Master - Renault's heavy duty van chassis
2: Iveco Daily - same class as Renault Master, used to be part of Fiat
3: Ambulance is a Renault Trafic - the smaller Renault van. And the greenkeeper flatbed is a same weight class Sevel 2nd generation. I did not see the actual brand, Sevel is not acting on its own but a joint venture between Peugeot/Citroen and Fiat for light commercial vehicles. Basically the successor of this one is sold in the US as Ram ProMaster.
4: Renault Master again
5: Renualt Laguna, mid-size passenger car
6: Mitsubishi Pajero (Montero in the US and Spanish speaking countries due to the name being an 18+ word in Spanish). Thought at first it was a Toyota Landcruiser in the dark, but the shape of the rear side windows gave it away. Mitusbishi stopped selling the Pajero in 2021, now they only make subcompacts and crossovers.
7: the next Renault Master
8: Mercedes Actros, Mercedes' heavy duty truck. This one is a 20 ton GVW with 310 hp (can be decrypted from the number on the door)
9: Ford Mondeo - indeed the wagon version of the European counterpart to the Fusion
10: Fiat Ducato - 3rd generation Sevel van, also Ram Promaster in the US. The EU brands just got a facelift and Ram did not. So it is acually a quite new vehicle
11: Peugeot 208 (subcompact) followed by a Renault Megane (compact)
12: Citroen Berlingo (comparable to a Ram ProMaster City). The Renault Kangoo competitor model was actually the grey one parked in front of the Renault Twingo microcar
13: Another Renault Trafic
14: Probably Peugeot Partner (if not it's a Citroen Berlingo as well - same car) followed by a 2nd generation Peugeot Boxer (Sevel van)
5:40 That Mitsubishi Pajero/Montero aka “King of the Desert”, is a multiple times winner of the Paris-Dakar rally, hence its nickname and is definitely not a Sports Utility Vehicle, it is a All Terrain Vehicle! 😉
UK. Driving along a motorway at about 10 over the limit, Audi estate in the fast lane in front of me, steadfastly doing 70 (the speed limit). So I get a bit closer to it, to encourage them to move out the way. They respond with a couple of flashes of the hidden blue lights, I back off and we all carry on our merry way. Ten minutes later they've pulled up a Porsche.
Sweden changed from driving on the left to driving on the right on September 3, 1967. That was a smart move. It's too late for you Brits now, considering the amount of infrastructure, but don't you wish you had done the same? That way you wouldn't be the laughing stock of the rest of Europe.
Yesterday I was passed on the M27 by two unmarked cars, one a BMW, one Volvo. Both travelling at 100+ mph with their multiple blue lights and flashing headlamps.
For Joe, the speed limit is there for a reason, if you think speeding is Ok go visit the local A&E.
@@solentbum yep, I wasn't driving at my best, although as the police driver who assessed my advanced driving course noted, I exceeded the speed limit a couple of times, but it was always safely and took into account road and traffic conditions. And presumably the guys in the unmarked car that flashed me weren't particularly concerned, otherwise they would have pulled me over. In town centres where there are pedestrians and cyclists, it's a different matter, and speeding is dangerous pretty much any time.
@@joegrey9807 so tailgating at 70 mph is ok?
@@solentbum if I was tailgating dangerously then they would have pulled me over. I was a fair way off.
The Ford fusion over here in Europe and particularly the UK is named the Ford Mondeo, the police car you seen the US didn’t get that one and the generations before except the Mk2 which you had under the Ford Contour namesake, the engines range from 1.8i petrol then a 2.0 TDCI diesel and up to a 2.5t petrol 5 cylinder from the Focus ST but that’s a rare option, it came in liftback, sedan, and wagon body styles
I'm from France. Actually I know that for the first vehicle, some of them have so much room at the back that a whole crew can operate all around the stretcher. Like if they where working in an operating room. I know also that one of the doctrines in first aid in France is that if a patient is not transportable, you HAVE to bring the hospital to him. That's why some rescue vehicles and ambulance have so much stuff and room at the back.
In France, emergency doctors can travel and work at the back of an EMT vehicle even if they have their own vehicles. Also most of the EMTs in France are firefighters. They're always trained as rescuers and firefighters. However, they can't administrate medicaments by syringe.
The one at 5:22 is an emergency doctor service SUV. It's called SMUR (Emergency Rapid Response Unit), they are not Firefighters, they are based in hospitals.
I'm really interested about emergency services and how it is around the world. Here is a fun fact : in the U.S.A. you have one unique number to call for emergency : 911. Here in France we have more numbers, each emergency service is independent of the others.
1:19 Oh, *we don't consider this vehicle to be a simple "ambulance"* : "ambulances" are used to transport people and not to stabilize them at the place where they are injured.
This vehicle and its personnel can of course transport people to the hospital in an emergency, but they can do much more than only that.
hey man i live in france just so you know the mistsubushi suv is a unit with a doctor in there to help EMT's for critical injuries
At my work we have flatbed Fiat Dukato. Crewcab. Has same footprint as current F150, but has almost 3m (10ft) bed. Also, all sides on the bed open, so can easily load pallets with forklift from any side.
That’s actually really cool 🎉
The red van ambulance /pompiers is based on a Renault Master, the black police car ils a Renault Laguna 3 , I think it's a black Ford Mondeo sw, an old Peugeot boxer (police)
I love your YT channel even though I don't understand American English fluently 😊 (I am french)
SMUR = Emergency Medical Assistance/Service (2 Doctors or 1 with Para-medic). Secours in France = rescue in the USA.
Vehicles are more compact, they have to fit down 500 or even 1000 year old narrow streets in many cases.
As to Versailles, pre-Revolution (1789) it was pretty much the countryside, home to the Palace of the Sun King (Louis XIV).
Now, suburb/bedroom community to Paris (long commute by RER). Fire Depts. in France are highly specialised, Paris are world renowned,
they pretty much do it all: climbers, divers, NBC, you name it they have it. Ergo, in Nice & around the Med., the bulk of the firemen are all
ex-navy: combat-divers, clearance-divers and what not, for waterborne operations in general, in addition to firefighting.
2:19 Those vans are basically the european alternative to a pickup truck for craftsmen or construction workers (This one looks like a gardner?). Europe has nearly no pickup trucks, those are used instead , I personally feel like they are more practical.
5:19 Looks like a Mitsubishi Pajero, which is real offroader than a suv. SMUR stands for Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente, so its an ambulance
6:52 Looks like a Ford Mondeo, which is mostly identical to the Ford Fusion
Greeting from germany
Pajero was sold (only few generations) as Montero in USA, because of large spanish-speaking population and apparently Pajero is a slur in spanish
2:34 : Now you got those vans, its RAM Promasters.
2:34 where i live in america ive seen these sprinter vans converted into flatbed and cube vans
7:12 Here in France this one is called Ford Mondeo
the unmarked car is probably an official's car, a lot of them are under police protection, and there is a point where the driver is a policeman, so they get some attributes like that. I'm pretty sure using the siren without having the passenger in the back is a violation, but who are you ganna call to complain?
about the size of the fire trucks: when your streets were designed in the medieval times, you need the appropriate truck :) More in details: Paris as been heavily remodelled with larger streets, it looks quite different from the medieval times, but a number of medieval size streets have been kept, so they don't roll the dice and use small trucks everywhere, I think it's also parctical in the traffic jams.
back in the days, when my country was still a part of Yugoslavia (socialist part of the Europe for younger viewers 😋) Citroën CX ambulance was almost the most common site ... and it was a rather good one because of the self leveling hydropneumatic suspension
The Mitsubishi Parejo was a medical unit which assist rescuers in life-threatening emergencies 👍
The Ford wagon police was a "Mondeo" same as the fusion 😊
SNUR= Emergency Medical Response. In Germany, one would say emergency doctor. (In the white Mitsubishi Pajero SUV).
Current RAM Promaster in the US are based on the previous generation of the Fiat Ducato/Peugeot Boxer/Citroën Jumper because even before the Stellantis merging Fiat and PSA had a long collaboration (40 years) for cargo vans with their Sevel factories subsidiary (Sevelnord in Frence and Sevel Sud in Italy).
Specific emergency vehicles are build by specific companies like Durisotti or Gruau. They add their own elements on the cargo van naked back platform.
Flatbed vans are more common in Europe than pickup vans because they mostly don't get out from the main roads and most forest roads are quite accesible for non AWD vehicles. Pickups are mainly used by people who have to drive on all terrains regularly, plus favorable tax cuts for pickups have disappeared recently due to environmental concerns.
Ian
Check out as well as you were looking at that Citroen Berlingo van which is also the same as a Peugeot Partner… the two companies have amalgamated together now known as PSA groupe
the video you were watching is not recent, French emergency vehicles are more modern today and there are several of them, in this video we can see that there are only two types of ambulance, the fire brigade (always in red)
and the "smur" ambulance (some sound equipped with American sirens)
but there are others, and then the fire truck is no longer current, the model is different and finally to finish the color of our police vehicles we have changed since last year.
7:10 Ford Mondeo, which are called Fusions in NA.
Well of course the trucks are compact! In french cities streets are on the narrower size. They already sometimes barely fit! (Cf Notre-Dame fire)
I the "SUV" is a SMUR = service mobile d'urgence et de réanimation => French for mobile emergency and resuscitation service. Because in french they're is a squad of mobile doctorswho provides first medical care directly on the road.
Here a deepl traduction of the wiki article :
The mobile emergency and resuscitation service, now called mobile emergency and resuscitation structure, often abbreviated to SMUR, is a hospital service consisting of one or more vehicles (called, depending on the country and the category, a mobile hospital unit, a radio-medical vehicle, etc.) intended to provide emergency medical assistance outside the hospital, often in conjunction with an ambulance. As well as when a patient requires medical care or monitoring. Indeed, certain patients and/or certain pathologies require emergency care at their bedside, and this, before any other mobilization. In this case, by calling 112 (formerly 100), the regulator will decide (depending on the pathology) to move an SMUR to the area, in order to provide extra-hospital care essential to the patient's survival. We can therefore affirm that the SMUR is an extension of the hospital structure to which it is attached. If the patient cannot come to the hospital, the hospital (the SMUR in this case) will go to the patient.
These vehicles are equipped in different ways depending on the country, but often contain at least a doctor, a nurse and a specialized ambulance driver.
The SMUR is not to be confused with the SAMU when it exists in some countries.
The United States and Canada do not have SMURs, but use MICUs (mobile intensive care units) for private and military transport.
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in France Std firefighter truck are 12t water FPT . as for SMUR Mitsubishi it's the same as Hospital EMS for you . Now Firefighter Units and Hospital EMS in France have some Federal SS 2000 and Pathfinder Siren too .
The european version of the Ford Fusion is called Mondeo. It exists in 4 and 5 door (hatchback) sedan and of course in station wagon version.
En France on a la Ford Fusion et la Ford Mondeo.
@@alexandre210613 Certes, mais la Fusion européenne, c'est pas vraiment la même voiture !
2:30 They need a much more expensive and more restrictive truck license for all vehicles over 3.5 tons, and there are a lot of regulations so that trucks don't drive in cities, that's why there are many light vans in France.
5:50 In France the red ambulances are allocated to the fire stations, the firemans have no medical training, they intervene at the site of the accident and take care only of first aid and transport, if the injured cannot be transported without medication , the hospital sends a SMUR vehicle with doctors and a lot of equipment to help stabilize the injured for transport.
7:25 : The white ambulances are with private companies, they rarely intervene on the place of the accident, they deal most often with on the order of a doctor, or inter-hospital transport.
6:15 The streets are often narrow, the city firetrucks must be able to access everywhere