(Ride Along) LACo.FD Light Force 170
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- Los Angeles County Fire Dept. Light Force 170 responding to a reported flooding in 58's area on Wooster St. & 62nd St.
Units due: Light Force 170 & Engine 172
Additional info: Light Force 170 was canceled at time of dispatch due to Engine 172 being able to handle, this was overlooked and LF170 responded.
Thank you to Station 170A for allowing me to ride along!
Inglewood / Ladera Heights, CA - June 20th, 2017
I created this video with the TH-cam Video Editor ( / editor )
I love the captains response when he finds out they got canceled! lol
Love the Inglewood response they drove passed my old house old job and into my old station 58 neighborhood LDH so 13 min response = about 30 min regular drive nice to see the old neighborhood again thanks FB1 sometimes I wish I was back there instead of the north AK keep ur helmets on LACOFD
Def one of the best ride along response video ever!!
You gotta be kidding?
I see they came up Crenshaw (going north)past Century. Hit Manchester (went West) to Prairie (turned North), turned West on Florence.
Turned North for a bit on Centinela past Centinela Park (Edward Vincent), Centinela curves back into a east/west and rode it down to the high priced homes.
I've taken this exact route from Century on so many times.
That was my old neighborhood!!! I knew every turn. Thanks!
woah you guys were loud asf! this was the best ride along I've ever watched :)
right?! without a headset, my ears would've been screwed lmao! thanks kraig, glad you enjoyed.
FB1 Response Videos HI thanks you for your video
FB1 Response Videos My department doesn’t have headsets in our trucks
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FB1, just found your ride along. That was a haul. Liked going by the two other stations. Awesome work.
i actually just rode out at this station again last week but decided not to film anything. glad you enjoyed, thanks for watching.
Gotta love 170's!
oh yeah. great crews, great rigs, and great responses.
Having a hard time understanding why this particular unit was dispatched in the first place, especially for a flooding. A confirmed fire, maybe. We seemed to have toured most of LA County, passing through at least 3 different fire districts, putting the apparatus, crew and the public in danger before being cancelled. Either the requesting officer or the dispatcher needs a talking to.
38’s, 58’s and 172’s are sort of in weird locations truck-company wise. for structure fires, LAC will dispatch an LA City task force or the Culver City truck company. for other calls where a truck is needed but not as quickly, they’ll call LF170 to avoid requesting from other agencies.
Who cares. Just enjoy the video.
@@FB1ResponseVideos E58 Must have been unavailable, but wouldn't you think Q110 would be closer? It was a 6 plus mile response for LF 170.
The Truck company has a lot of the specialized salvage equipment an engine doesn't have.
Really LACFD 170 went past 2 other LACFD Stations to get to 58's area WTF that is NUTS and to get called off as they are there WOW
Damn they have gone through a lot of first ends station
Why didn't Station 110 respond? Seems like it would have been closer.
Love the light forces! Awesome video.
Cool video. Makes me miss those days.
Did LACoFD Station 173 get the call when Light Force 170 got the call.
negative, LF170 was responding to 58's area with Engine 172. i'm not sure where Engine 173 was headed.
GREAT ride a long!!!!!!! YOU HAVE THE BEST VIDEOS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!! The driver of engine 170 was great getting thru all that traffic!!!!!!!!!
Nice sounds this my favorite siren 🚨
I Think I just saw the engineer ( The Quint LightForce Driver) went a little old school using the Thomas Guide map book something I still used or look at.
I know im going to ask a dumb question here but what is lightforces duties
You get a truck and pump. Pumps role is to supply water to the truck. 4th person on the truck rides on the engine and first responsibility is to grab the hydrant for the pump then rejoin their truck crew. Engineer connects water supply, then stands by to supply water to the truck. Or so the sorry goes. Nice system really. You get all the tools to take on a small incident.
Excellent response & terrific horn action as well 😀👍👍 Thanks again for the video & the channel!!!!! Keep up the good work!!!
what was the driver looking at was the gps on the laptop
yes, the MDT's have maps.
Is it my imagination, or does it seem these guys aren't in that big a hurry? Not questioning their reasons for it--just interested in understanding the possible reason. (Or is this the norm in LA?)
it’s hard and quite dangerous for anyone to be in a hurry in LA, the main issue is that everyone IS in a hurry. plus, as you can imagine, the quint is huge and carries tons of equipment so being careful is possibly the best choice. also, the shops are always really busy so if a rig gets wrecked, they won’t see it for a year. 170s actually recently got out of reserves...both of them! thanks for watching (:
Makes sense. Thanks for the reply.
@@melbourne727 Slow to me..... .
@@FB1ResponseVideos Thankfully the quint is the second company at most stations, but not where I live, Q15's area and it takes forever for them to get anywhere compared to E59 that I see flying down Scott Av all the time.
As a former Engineer, you are limited by the power plant on your apparatus, and you have to drive as the conditions and call information dictate.
That’s a long way just to find out you were cancelled.
Aw, well. Great ride along!
How does the Light Force concept work in county compared to city?
Do they have a tiller + engine setup like LAFD? Or tiller only? Also, does that mean that the tiller and engine can come from different stations?
itchyboy they have the quint and engine as the light force, they respond together and are based out of the same station
Thanks.
I notice that some stations have an 'engine only' setup, while some have a 'tiller only' setup. How do they manage?
LA County has very few light forces. like you said, most quints run alone and most engines run alone but their light forces operate just like LA City's, staffed with 6 (4 on quint and 2 on engine). i'm honestly not sure of their exact reasoning of using light forces if they only have so few of them. every single LA City truck company is a light force except Truck 9.
If a tiller and engine are from separate stations, do they ever get paired up as a light force?
How different are the duties of a county tiller from the city ones?
negative, a light force is specifically a quint and an engine married together from the same station. but don't get too confused .. for example, 30's has a quint and an engine but they're not a light force, and if they get dispatch to something together, it still will not be called a light force because they're not usually a light force.
LA City runs trucks, no water. County runs quints with a little water on board but not necessarily enough to get by.
LA County light forces usually come into play when a station with only a quint (i.e 158's, 161's and 166's) goes into a reserve truck (without water) so they'll send an extra guy and an engine there and call it a temporary light force. other than that, i'm not quite sure why county used them in only certain areas, i'm sure there's some sort of logic and strategic placement behind it.
great footage jaay!!!!!
thanks FB4!!!
GREAT VIDEO
Love that tune!
very awesome catch
I love the Horn mov it
Nothing like a cup of coffee on a run! :)
Jason Gunn b
Didn't know you had to go to San Diego
L.A has been bad on rush hour everytime iv been there but beats manhatten ...once I saw an engine company take 6 minutes to go a block and a half VERY full code .. Once (with no camera) I saw a open tiller in LF 170 but not sure if it was a LF then at the target plaza on century running with 172 squad to a down security officer on a segway the tiller wasnt quint though this was 2008 may have been the former tillers of either truck 3 or truck 8 when they had the open tiller seat seagraves
Great catch. Whew, that Charger was a close call at the intersection.
thank you. there was a lot of traffic at that time of the morning & people are a bit slow when it comes to reacting to emergency vehicles lol.
and how...every time i see an emergency response theres atleast one bad driver, that gets in the way, especially here in West LA.
Great work on the Q
Great video. One question why call the fire department for a flooding?
an outdoor flooding: could be a water main break, usually the local water department is then called after the water is shut off.
an indoor flooding: FD does a water sweep. thank you for watching.
@@FB1ResponseVideos ok cool and thanks for replying back.
You driving a tiller, which you need to be looking every which way, and you drinking
thanks from liberty ky
Awesome video! They go quite a ways for calls.
not usually, they're the closest county truck to 58's and 172's. usually for fires, they'll dispatch LA City or Culver City
@@FB1ResponseVideos I think it's a keep the Quint in the Marina thing. 110's is a bit different in its isolation from other stations.
Why u guys on wrong way?
with the traffic near the end, you'd have thought it was a fire or other major emergency to which they were going. /gotta lol at the fact that they didn't notice that they were canceled and drove all that way to be told they were canceled. i bet they enjoyed the drive though, and hey a good response video for you nonetheless.
right, haha. longest code 3 ride I've ever been on but it was cool and super loud as you can tell.
LAFD the ultimate of coolness: driver while running code taking a sip of coffee. Stay Strong and Stay Safe.
LACo.FD* 😉 thanks for watching!
Do you record all the responses from your ride alongs or just a couple?
just a couple
Thats going to be one long, long drive back. they'll probably keep getting tapped on everyone else's calls as they try to get back to quarters too.
we actually got a few calls on the way back to the area lol. thanks for watching.
Very cool
nice catch
Gotta love engine brakes
13 min bad respond time
they were way out of their area during rush hour Inglewood (los angeles) traffic. 13min isn't bad at all. I've worked Inglewood and it gets really busy
Sacramento Fire Department it's not in their district, and there were already units on scene way before them
it took 13 minutes with blaring lights and sirens, that says a lot about the traffic as you can see in the video. plus, it was simply to assist in a flooding call, no lives were really at risk. as you saw in the video, they had to travel through 172’s district, 173’s district, and into 58’s. also, LF170 isn’t first due for fire calls in 58’s area, an LA City task force or Culver City’s truck will be dispatched.
FB1 Response Videos ok
code 3 to a simple assist and no lives were at risk... I say the commuters were at risk for your lights and sirens response to a non emergency call... for shame.
Very slow..to much&camera outing
it looks like those stations just sit there!XD
they couldn't do what we had to do at the flooding call (if we actually made it there) lol, thanks adam.
your welcome!:D
Was this a hoax call?
negative. Engine 172 requested a truck co. for water sweep, LF170 was canceled at time of dispatch but the memo didn’t get across.
What flood? All that for nothing.
They all in 58s first end
first-in*
Compared to U.K. ride-alongs this seems pedestrian.
170 got lost.
Joy rides cost the tax payer money! The CO "F" Up put in his jacket... Istill love those who serve.
to be fair, 170s had a drill planned in 58s area. we went to it but reports of a traffic collision with persons trapped came out in 58s. everything worked out.
Man what is it with California drivers not pulling over
Probably because the a**holes that don't pullover won't let those that do back in to traffic. There is a lot of Un-Americanism here.
A Tiller going to a possible flood condition.....makes sense to me....NOT!
water sweep.
Y'all need to get you some modern day sirens for those trucks.... those damned stupid sounding things went out in the 70's with rotary dial telephones and televisions with 13 channel dials on them.........
Our trucks do have modern sirens, however, most fire departments still use the federal Q because of tradition. Personally I love the sound of the Q when it winds up, and I think it's what makes the American fire truck American.
Those “stupid sirens” as you call them are the most effective on the market today. Due to the sound proofing in todays vehicles most do not get the early warning that the Q provides.
Still better than hi-los
Anything but a rumbler siren please.