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My heart sank while watching this video. Belgium has excellent hospitals, if this poor kid had to go to Necker Hospital in France (golden standard for pediatric care in Europe), it means his condition was super serious. The fact he couldn't be evacuated by an air ambulance means he needs heavy life-supporting equipment not available in an helicopter. Poor kid was on the brink of death. I hope these officers gave him the precious minutes that could make the difference between life and death. I hope this kid made it.
Thanks for the explanation, i was wondering why they used a car instead of a helicopter.
Where did you get that info from?
@@micade2518 Hailing from Belgium, Europe. When it comes to medical expertise: one of my aunts is a retired MRI/radiology tech. She worked at Hospital Gustave Roussy, Villejuif, France for 8 years. Gustave Roussy is specialised in cancer treatment and works in close collaboration with Necker Hospital's paediatric oncology units. It is quite common for a patient to be transferred from Necker to Gustave Roussy or the other way around depending on the type of cancer and treatment needed. That's how I know about the excellent reputation of Necker Paediatric Hospital (including many other fields than cancer)
As for medicalized transport, one of my friends' husband is a Belgian Red Cross Medic working as a volunteer with the Fire Brigade and Emergency Medical service (SIAMU: fire brigade & emergency evacuation services).
@@micade2518 not sure where he from he got it .. but it sounds very logical and i love logic so yeah i'm not questioning the guy or gal .. necker is indeed leading in pediatric care in europe and the fact that he isn't airlifted could be many reasons .. maybe this child needed more staff that could fit the helo .. or indeed needed life support that could not fit in the helicopter .. makes sense otherwise they won't drive 314km if not needed ... the medics , doctors are smart people so if the helo option was avaible they woulda gone for that option .. but like i said it all comes to logic sense
@@bramdeclercq6188 I was being sarcastic towards someone who provides so many (unwanted) "facts" and suppositions ...
It reminds me of the far too many clones of Louis Pasteur who sprung up when the C-19 was in full swing, and gave their piece of advice whilst all the (real) scientists of the world were frantically searching the solution (and, the origins of the disease!).
It gets on my nerves! TRUST THE PROFESSIONALS FOR DOING THEIR JOBS and if the medical team had deemed it necessary or better for the patient to have him transferred by ambulance to Paris, they must have had good reasons for deciding so with all the pros and cons duly examined beforehand.
Hi! French biker here (not a professionnal one but had almost the same training as police bikers for other purposes), some toughts on this:
- Since you talked about SAMU: SAMU is french medical emergency responders, they always come with at least an MD and a nurse. Usually in France if you need first responders for something medical you call them (15) or a number that will forward your call (112) and if you need and ambulance they will send the firefighters, if you need a doctor they will send a team from the SAMU. For instance, I had a bike accident it was the firefighters that took me to the hospital not the SAMU (because I was only lightly injured).
- The traffic is actually not that bad for Paris "périphérique", it's far from rush hour the highway is pretty low traffic on the video. Yeah, in french cities (especially Paris) traffic jams are horrible even in the middle of the afternoon for instance.
- On the ramp, the bikers went to the traffic lights to make way because they saw the ambulance would never pass, so they block all the other lanes and make people pass the red lights
- The cars with the red on top are taxis. The ambulance was on a bus lane (wrong way) to go faster, the cops made all the taxis stop so the ambulance could come through (taxis are allowed to take bus lanes)
- In the end, the discussion between the ambulance and the bikers was "Which service do you need to go? "ER" "It's in the back, follow me" + a maintenance guy on the right said stuff too but nothing revelant
In France, health system and first responders are very different than the one you have in the US. Paris and Lyon's SAMU are even able to do surgery on the streets in case of a cardiac arrest (there are some videos on youtube about it - including one where they revived someone almost an hour after his cardiac arrest thanks to the firefighters doing CPR the whole time)
Commentaire très pertinent. Pour nos cousins ricain.
Une bonne traduction et analyse était nécessaire 👍
Merci..super intervention
En Thaïlande lorsque une ambulance veut passer c'est juste n'importe quoi.... presque personne ne fait d'effort... hallucinant 😢
J'aurais pas dis mieux 🤌
Pour ton accident de moto, la gravité de tes blessures n'ont rien à voir avec le choix de l'équipe envoyée, les accident de la voie publique (AVP) sont du ressort exclusifs des pompiers, pour des raisons évidentes :
- c'est les seuls à posséder du matériel de désincarcération
- à cause du carburant, il y a un risque de feu.
Aussi le SMUR (Service Médical Urgence et Réanimation, l'équipe mobile du SAMU) ne se déplace que sur les cas les plus graves type arrêt cardio-respiratoire.
Si la gravité estimée lors de l'appel est moindre l'équipe envoyée peut être :
- des pompiers
- des ambulanciers privés, via le système de la Grande Préfectorale par lequel les entreprises de transport sanitaires mettent à tour de rôle des équipes à disposition du SAMU.
One of my kids had to be transported to Necker when she was 11 months old. Very similar situation in heavy traffic with police escort though replace the ambulance with a fire brigade truck.
I'm super grateful that so many people helped and did their best to save my little girl. And yes, she's fine. She's now 10 , and she cannot wait to enroll next year as a jeune sapeur pompier (youth fire brigade - minimum enrollment age is 11) to help others.
In most European countries drivers must go to the closest side of the road and slow/stop when they hear emergency sirens.
If a one or two lane road, keep to the right!
In Germany, if you hear sirens or if traffic slows down, jam, accident, you don't know, the left most lane should move to the left shoulder while the right (and others) hold to the right leaving an opening for emergency vehicles to get through.
@@leong1190 The most advanced solution so far to provide an emergency lane. Should be adopted by the whole EU!
That's the same in France but this is Paris, one of the most densely populated and built cities in the world, same with traffic, so it's not always possible and relying on that would be dangerous for the ambulance needs to go fast and not everyone can react and find the space to do the manoeuvre on time. That's why they sometimes use the police help to clear the way beforehand. That's theory vs reality on the ground.
I came here to say so. People are used to move their car on the side when they hear sirens.
I am Parisian: The cars with red lights on the roof are just taxis, the red light indicates that they are busy, and the light appears bigger because of the poor quality of the image at that moment (due to paving stones of the road, historic site obliges). At the entrance to the hospital, the two gendarmes asked which department of the hospital, and the paramedic replied "emergencies",
There was an additional difficulty for this escort, in France, police, gendarmerie and firefighter sirens are two-tone ("Pinnn-Ponn-Pinnnn-Ponn), ambulance sirens are three-tone (Pi-Pin-Pon -Pi-Pin-Pon) the Belgian ambulance siren is not recognized in traffic, and, for drivers in their car, it is more difficult to locate.
On the “highway” that surrounds Paris (the one in the video). It is not a highway, the speed is limited to 70 km/h (43 miles/h) and it is very dense (1.1 million cars per day on a 35 km loop, on Fridays, traffic increases to 1.25 million cars/day), in addition, priority is for vehicles entering the right lane, and there is neither an acceleration lane to insert into traffic, nor a lane deceleration to exit: the action of the bikers slows down the traffic, and the escort does not take care of the limitation, at times, the ambulance can drive at 100 km/h (62 miles/h) between two lines cars more or less well aligned which brake at less than 10 km/h (6 miles). The paramedics must also avoid any shock to the patient.
Actually, the two/three-tone sirens are different: All priority vehicles use two-tone, you must give way to them, including emergency ambulances (SAMU/Firefighter Ambulances), you can even burn a red light to free the way without any consequence (don't kill anyone in the process though)... "General Interest, non-priority vehicules", such as emergency electricity intervention, roadworks, or Private ambulances (for non life-threatening situations) use three tone sirens (but they can switch to a two tone if they are commissioned on SAMU request)... you can help them get through traffic but in no way you need to go crazy for them, that said, too many three-tone ambulances behave like cowboys just because they're late for lunch. So the rule is: two-tone, real emergency, make way. three-tone: facilitate if you can but no risk taking.
The biggest difficulty is that people simply don't pay attention, and once it's too late and it's blairing sirens straight at the windscreen some simply freeze to death, unable to react, and others simply don't give a d*mn f*ck and won't budge because they only care about themselves... I can't count the number of times I push myself to the BAU (emergency stop lane) to let a firefighter pass from 50/100m away, and the guy right behind me simply says "F it, i'll take over and slow down the firetruck, who cares...", and they won't risk anything because, well, emergency services are busy saving people.... those ones are hopefully a minority, most are simply a bit lost on how to react and are already clumsy drivers to begin with, it takes them a couple of seconds to activate enough neurons, assess the surroundings, and clear the way ... The same who are too afraid to take the roundabout de l'Etoile ;-) You just gotta go for it :)
@@jaxxdotorgomg you are spot on. The other day when coming back from a family party/cousinade in Poitiers partner was driving and some emergency vehicle (firefighters probably was mostly a red truck) had the lights on and no sirens. I think we were still on the A10 but well past St Arnoult and back home in IDF, not yet on the A6/N104/A4 we need to get home... My partner saw the lights and thought "let's just get to the rightside lanes just in case" and sooooo many people just freaking tried to take his place. A few people spotted the lights and moved to give it room to the left lane but it was rare. Eventually the firefighters did overtake us and many others and disappeared ahead...
Very useful additional comment 😉: pin pon in english translates to 'nee-naw, nee-nah'... (Je viens de regarder sur google). Salute!
@@bertrandls Cool! We just call it "nino, nino" in Romania.
French acustic signals are ridicolous... this wail/yelp is much more intense and effective then that tütu tütu... 😂
this ambulance is going to the Necker hospital. It's an hospital entierly dedicated to pediatric care and the first of its kind when it was build in 1778. Fun fact: the stethoscope was invented in this hospital. It's one of the best facilities in Europe for complex pediatric care.
The cars vith the red lights on top are just taxis. Red means they're running a fare, green means it's available.
Also for the first part of the video, this isn't a highway per se, but what we call the "peripherique", which is a belt of road surrounding Paris with multiple ramps for entry points in the city or the suburbs.
Merci!!!
Indeed, Laënnec! Funny that such a paramount invention came from his passion for music!
Dixit Wikipedia: "René-Théophile-Hyacinthe Laennec was a French physician and musician. His skill at carving his own wooden flutes led him to invent the stethoscope in 1816, while working at the Hôpital Necker. He pioneered its use in diagnosing various chest conditions."
I've got my heart surgery there (my first, in France, was at laennec before closing) even though I was 18 that time. Necker is a child hospital only (there's some expectation though, like if we follow the team there when you were a child).
For the police to be involved like this I can assume it was for a transplant (maybe I'm wrong I don't know the context)
Also, at 9:30 when they talk, the policeman asks "Hello. Which service?". The Ambulance driver answers "Emergency service. I'll see..." P:"It's all the way back. Let's go. Come on." D: "It's for an emergency. We enter through emergency service anyway." There is no thanks or anything like that, it's just a technical exchange of information.
I love that you called the peripherique "a belt of road". In English: beltway. You were this close >< to reinventing the exact same word the native speakers did.
the French bikers from the national police and the gendarmerie are absolutely incredible...they are tightrope walkers on their motorbikes, I wouldn't run away with them chasing me, they are too strong!
Hey ! Another French biker here . First of all I hope the kid survived and is doing well. Also want to reaffirm how skilful and amazing those French police (and Gendarmes who are actually affiliated to the army but police our roads and countryside) Riders are . I have , over the years witness the level of skill those riders have . They are very passionate motorcyclists who decide to serve their country doing what they love which is riding motorcycles . Soutien a nos motards pour leur travail quotidien.
The situational awareness of the Police escorts are unbelieveable. Well done to all involved as it was all done superbly.
These specialized police bikers are called motards in french, pronounced motar, and they are f...g good.
Hey Ian, at 8:40 those black car with red light on the roof you saw are taxis. Red light signifying "occupied/booked". Taxis are most of the time black and/or just regular sedan car with roof signals and stickers on the side.
And at 9:40, the ambulance driver was talking with the cop about wich hospital service they were going to and asked for the "emergencies" or "ER" for the US (I think it's what you call it in the USA)
The american use red+blue lights in their emergency vehicles. I'm portuguese and not sure if the red light is used in other european countries, here in Portugual we only use two colors: Blue for emergency vehicles, and yellow for slow moving vehicles, such as a garbage truck. The red flashing light is not allowed in Portugal.
The only instance of a vehicle flashing a red light in Portugal, was when the american president Barrack Obama landed at the Lisbon airport, in his Airforce 1 plane, and had the american secret services cars allready waiting for him in Portugal, to escort him to our Parliement.
On the other hand, the spanish motorway police "Guardia Civil" have the same uniform as the municipal trash collectors in Lisbon. When I drive in Spain and I see someone dressed as a garbage man, I must allways remember it's the spanish traffic police! :)
So I must slow down, because Dorothy is not in Kansas anymore, and the spanish police highway patrol men are dressed in the same uniform as the portuguese municipal trash men in Lisbon. ;)
@@zedaadega7420 In the Czech Republic, they changed the law some years ago and allowed red+blue lights too, so that's what you now see on Czech police cars (haven't seen them on ambulances or firetrucks but it's possible there are some too). I think there was some argument that under certain conditions (heavy fog maybe?), red light is more visible than blue.
When we needed an escort, nobody thought about fist-bumps or high-fives. The arrival at the hospital is not the main goal but only the prelude of the most serious phase: To save the life of your passenger. I can only speak about myself, but as an ambulance driver my main feelings were worry and hope and when I had the rare opportunity to meet my escort and thank them for having done a good job, I always fought back tears. As long as I could drive, I could do everything in my power to help my passenger. But as soon as I had handed him/her over and the adrenalin level went down, I felt so helpless I was in no mood for excited gestures.
For us it’s like okay we made it best of luck for whoever is in that samu just culture difference.
There was no fist-bump at the end, they were asking what service entrance they needed to go so they can lead them there.
@@CdtDdris correct, they were asking to which service they should get them, in this case emergency.
There were no high-five in the video, the policeman was just asking which hospital service the ambulance needed to be lead on.
@@Killem6089 I am not referring to the video but to the rection at 9:44.
Just for info, it is a normal traffic, even relatively low compared to usual traffic in Paris or Brussels.
Brussels to Paris takes usually 5 hours, 1½h to do the 5 km to leave Brussels, 2h for the 230km of highway and 1½h to do the last 2 km in Paris.
There are a few hospitals in France and Belgium that are "last resort" ones, when a patient is sent to Necker in France or Erasme in Belgium, it's because there is no other option.
WOW!!!! The bike cops did an amazing job! TOTAL RESPECT fo the cops and the ambulance crew! Mahadev Bless them all!
They say at the end: where are the emergency entrances? the bikers say that they accompany them in front of the Emergency department entrances, I think you asked yourself the question why the vehicles have the lights on when it is daytime, the "daytime running lights" have been an obligation since around ten years on all new cars, it only lights up on the front of the vehicles and it must stop as soon as the night lights are on
Hi there, just so you get an idea of the general workings of roads here in France, when driving it is crucial for every driver to react immediately when hearing sirens....each driver is totally responsable to participate in making room in every way possible for emergency véhicules.....working together 🥰 this is just as it is and never put in question❣️
Thanks for your video
Love from France 😊
French are not as good for clearing path as Germans or Scandinavians countries, we can improve but we are not so bad.
@@kevinair7669 It's true but in Germany there is ALWAYS a stupid guy who didn't react. He derails everyone's efforts. -_-
Yes, it is the same across europe, at least western europe and the police arent really needed, you get the same effect with just the ambulance's syrens.. the only thing the police made diferent is when they went in the oposite side of the road (with ongoing traffic).
@@Trikipum Yeps, speaks volumes about the dire need this child was in. I hope (s)he made it.
@@Trikipum Here in Finland ambulance can drive one way street wrong way(by it self) and many times do but only if its safe so rarely/maybe never in highway.
Most likely, french police took the Belgian ambulance around Charles de Gaulle airport where the trafic gets generally heavier. They escort the ambulance (that has the funny "US siren") through the heavy circular boulevard around Paris and within Paris to the Necker hospital, that is specialized to treat sick children. As a former parisian, it's great to see how police took several places and streets facing oncomming trafic...
Yeah, the moment the escorts went into the oncoming lane was nerve-racking. Gotta have balls of steel to do what these guys do.
L'ambulance aurait été française je pense.
Knowing this might save the kid's life is incredibly thrilling.
Really interesting to see this reaction to what is part of my daily life, as a resident of the Paris suburbs.
We forget what an incredible job these people do.
And believe me, the traffic there was very light, on an exceptionally calm day.
SAMU means Service d'aide médicale urgente (Emergency Service), it's a first responder for any french person who dials 15 or 112. It's a region based service which filters calls and regulates if needed the use of ambulances for urgent pre-hospitilazation service. For road accidents, SAMU uses SMUR (Service Medical Urgent Routier or Road Emergency Service) ICU-equipped ambulances for the same purpose of preparing patients for hospitalization. I believe that's the main difference with how US ambulances work, there they have the duty to only quickly transport the patient with less medical intervention. In France, it's common to see SAMU ambulances stop to treat critical issues on the road to hospital. So I don't know why you believe there's a child in this case, may be it's explained in the original video. FYI, cars with red lights on the roofs are taxis cabs in service, without clients the light would be green and off duty there would be no light at all. Taxis can drive on bus lanes. At the entry of the hospital complex, they don't congratulate themselves with high fives, they speak of searching for the emergencies entrance, the hospital is huge with streets among hospital's buildings.... I'm a Parisian BTW.
The police and gendarmerie bike unit have an amazing level, most of the bikers I know wished to enter but did not have enough competencies. Great guys. At the beginning of the video it is just a quiet day in Paris 😂 For information in several cases I did cross a red light when police, firemen or ambulances were coming behind me, this move is allowed
5:00. Handsy with the car. He was attracting attention and then telling the driver to stay on that side.
Nothing so bad as a driver that suddenly realises he is in the wrong spot and then tries to correct...
as french I am use to see these motorcycles officers working... they are, on that video escorting this ambulance on the Boulevard Peripherique, which is 35 kms around Paris city... there are more than 1 million vehicules daily.. and theses officers are always making a brillant job.. they deserve our thanks for the job they are doing.. not only the escorts, but bad drivers chases, prisoniers escorts, land forces back up, and so on.. I have sincerely a great respect for them and at the end when you are asking what they said, at the entry of the hospital, the officers asked where the ambulance had to go, and the paramedic replied : "to the emergencies "
For your comment avec the "smartness" of the police officer on his bike, in France, police forces receive extra training for being on motocycle road units. And we're talking month of training to be sure they will be the sharpest and most cool-headed ones in tight situations. They are also trained in working in coordination with other motorcycle units, as you saw around 12 :00
Basically, they look skilled because they are, and getting them on a bike rather than in a car isn't just for convenience, it's a work on it's own (and usually regarded as a reward).
In the same way, the Gendarmerie units you will see on the French freeways are also specialized units trained in high speed chases (yes they happen... when it's deemed necessary)
Not all are as “cool” as you describe!
F@#&** that was amazing. Take a bow! Now that's how a country should function. Prayers to the children in need.
The car with red light was an occupied taxi, the light is green when free
The problem is the Ambulance is using a nonstandard French emergency siren, making it hard for the drivers to take "seriously" the Ambulance behind. It looks like a private ambulance with no rights besides Courtoisie.
It is not,and SAMU is an official service,it is more than an ambulance anyway, rather a kind of hospital on wheels ,used for emergencies since there is always at least one doctor inside the van with the patient.
@@eugenieponleve667 The Title says Belgian Ambulance. Is it a SAMU Ambulance? Didn't recognize the siren. Ok, I left Paris for Canada 20 years ago; SIrens may have changed.
The cars with reds or Green lights on the roof are Taxis, if the light is green, it's available, and if it's red, it's not!
The wee red car the police layed hands on is an Alfa Romeo MiTo.
And the red light on top of a few cars inside Paris, it was taxis that had clients in. It is green if they are available and yellow if on break
All I could think about was the poor child who needed a three hour police escort of their ambulance to a foreign country to save their life.
But yeah, beautiful work by the police.
When you think the world is going to shit, it's heart warming to see hundreds of people working together to save a child's life. Kudos to the policeman, Great job.
Police escort is always a HUGE help in this situation.
Unfortunately, not always that easy for the Emergency Services when they are not here
I am a big man of fifty years old, but it makes me emotional to see how these professionals do their utmost, certainly not without risk, to save the life of a child. very beautiful, thank you. 🙏
Great job from these cops, their riding skills are amazing 😮
Being "All-In" for the rescue of a child's life - RESPECT and LOVE to everyone involved. And I bet it didn't even cost the family a single dime...
you bet it
Its in Europa where healtcare ment to make sure people get well, not about filling up insurance companys deep deep pockets.
as a french i can confirm it, it cost nothink to the familly .
Probably on insurance. Healthcare is never free, but there's an obligation and priority to saving lives.
Their dimes went to paying premium.
@@StefanVeenstraWe all pay for that's kind of services, and i'm happy my money, in this case, is not lost.
the cars with red light are taxis.
Red when they are hired, green when they are available for customers.
Was going to write this lol
Going to Moulin Rouge
In France, you have to stay on the right lane. Middle and left lane are to overtake. That’s why the ambulance was on left middle side of the road
In France, I have seen this many times everywhere. And naturally, all motorists pull over because we know that it is almost always for injured or sick people, or an accident which has just occurred further down the road.
Like in most places in the world, police and especially the rapid response motorcycle police that we have here in Greece, go to guardian angel mode when it comes to children! They guide ambulances so the can make better times! Some videos that have come to light, show transport done in record time that seems unbelievable to all of us that know the time one would normally need due to traffic and the distance!! ! In some cases, if there is no time to wait for an ambulance they may use a police car, and in other cases, if it's just the motorcycles at the scene and no police car, one of the motorcycle police(there are usually two per bike) will even jump in the driver seat of the parent's car and drive. They have high speed driving training and are far more cool-headed, so they really deliver miracles!!! On top of that, these officers are so humble and do not seek credit! And to be just... Ambulance drivers are also badass here in Greece! They go above and beyond and will do everything they can to get the job done! Even in a crowded city like Athens! We see it all the time that real life heroes don't wear capes and we thank them for all they do!
cars red lights, are taxi "busy" sign.. If green, "free" !
so much anxiety watching this 😅 amazing work by everyone
I suggested this video some time ago, glad you found it! Definitely one of the best and most interesting ambulance ride video I've ever seen.
Just wanted to say you have incredible eyes. I don't think I've ever seen eyes that blue. 😮
Belgium has different sirens to France (as you can hear), probably another reason why they needed an escort.
It is a good reason, but with an police escort they get there much faster and avoid any traffic jam.
No they are doing that for french ambulances too, not all of course but for critical situation.
I think it was SAMU which I think is only in France (I could be wrong) and they have different sirens than police or regular ambulances. If it's SAMU going to Necker hospital it means that this child's condition was really serious because Necker is one of the best pediatric hospital in europe and SAMU has the particularity to be able to proceed to an open heart surgery in any location and has a machine capable of temporarily replacing the heart while transporting the patient to the hospital.
Here in Italy (and in most Europe I think) ambulances and Police have very different sirens. Ambulances usually have a second faster siren (you can hear it in this video) used when they are jammed.
@@lbreda Yeah I live in France and it's the same thing but I think SAMU's siren is different from ambulances' (I might be wrong because I'm not really used to hear it because they only intervene when the firefighters can't do anything and so in a small town like the one I live in it's quite rare to hear them)
"Very busy day on the highway here". Well, unfortunately, this is the Périphérique, the ring road around Paris. This kind of traffic is quite normal here... Otherwise, this run is amazing. French roads can be total chaos when there is so much traffic, and people seem to forget everything they have learned when an emergency vehicle is nearby. Hence the erratic behaviour of some.
AT the end (9:27) the ambulance driver joked by turning on its siren for a short while :) But then, they discussed where to go. The ambulance just asked for the first aid entrance (urgence), and followed the police bike. They could have communicated that beforehand...
I'm assuming that him being American. While US does have expressways, they don't seem to have any sign for when expressway begins, which in Europe it's large rectangular sign with a car symbol. Isn't Périphérique just kind of a expressway as well?
*"people seem to forget everything they have learned when an emergency vehicle is nearby"*
Yeah, only some drivers seem to forget, but they're still trying their best since there's too many traffic, they don't just want to smash into other cars or anything. In the end of the day we humans aren't perfect, which is also why these police are remind them to move over.
*"They could have communicated that beforehand..."*
Maybe they forgot, even police and ambulance drivers can forget things sometimes.
@@automation7295 Technically, the Périphérique is a normal city road having multiple lanes and a 70 km/h speed limit. There are no expressway signs on it, the one you describe as a rectangular blue sign with a car on it.
On one hand, people do their best and try to follow the police bike's orders as best as they can. On the other hand, there is not really a system in the directions given by the police. Compare Germany's "Rettungsgasse", you are required to form an extra "lane" between the leftmost lane and the lane next to it, when there is this much traffic. Police and ambulances can easily use that. Here in Paris, that space is used by motorbikes overtaking slow cars.
Périphérique is not a normal city road and neither a highway.
It is a "boulevard" with special rules, that looks like a highway.
As previously said, the speed limit is higher than it would be on a boulevard.
And vehicles entering it have priority over vehicles already on it, which can be really confusing to first timers as they usually think they are on a highway.
At the very end, the cop obsiously knows already well this hospital, is asking the ambulance driver in which service he's going inside the hospital, as it could be any. That kind of long range transfer is often for cardiology (typicaly for heart transplantation), or some kind of intensive care, you can loose a precious time when searching the service if you do not know the place. In short, the driver answers 'we'll enter by the emergencies' , then the cop says "ok, follow us" (good job, as a former ambulance medik I appreciate that behavior).
They perform open heart surgery on newborns and toddlers at Necker.
The police asked the ambulance driver which entrance to go through. Then they accompanied him.
We must admit that we are rather proud of the quality of our bikers from the national gendarmerie in France. They are at the top.
The red light you see are to signal an occupied taxi, on its way to pickup a customer or in the middle of his ride.
So to answer to your question, it was not congratulations but the ambulance driver asking which entry he should go, then the police officer told him they will go to the emergency service and the say to follow them
I see exactly where this is.
What the driver was looking for was the entrance for the emergency so the bikers told him to follow them at the end. Very civil and professionnal. It's another league. French and Belgians are very intertwined in Europe. On every level and for a very long time. Belgian people are French's closer brothers. We make fun of eacher others but always in a gentle and funny way . We French and Belgian people go along quite well (first thing first: same language, same culture, and a shared history).
with the french speaking belgians, with the flemish (dutchspeaker) it's a litlle bit different...
Yeah I'm Flamand, can't speak French unfortunetly 😢. Quite embarassing, but I do make sure I make fun of you guys though :P
At 9:54 they said "we enter by the urgency gate"...
The interaction beteween the cops and the ambulance driver (00:09:30) was cops making sure they must go to the emergency service entrance
Oh, one thing of note that I forgot to mention in my first comment : police motorcycle escorts in France are a two man job, each has a specific role : the bike in front is called the courier, his job is to clear out the road ahead and call out any audible regarding the navigation. The second bike rides much closer to the ambulance and is called the regulator : his job is to manage the pace of the convoy so it never stops, and ensures that the vehicles that made way for the convoy do not stray back in their path. They do these kind of escorts for ambulances on a daily basis in Paris because the traffic is a nightmare, but they can also be called for sensitive convoys such as high-risk prisoner transports, money transport or high value items such as art pieces for museums.
Also, if the camera gets shaky towards the end, it's because the district they ride through has a lot of streets and avenues paved with cobblestone.
Escorts like that are so helpful in bigger cities. Esp with urgent international transfers. That Belgian ambulance was already on the road for hours
Lot of trafic you say? LOL that's NOTHING in that place ( porte de la chapelle Paris).
I did those kind of transport not so long ago. I was a driver for the irish ambassy in Paris and i drove a minivan following the ambassador sedan from Le bourget airport (private airport north of Paris) to the Irish ambassy the plane arrival was at 7pm (rush hour in paris). 2 police motorbikes and and a security car were escorting us. It was so intense, i'll never forget that day.
We were driving so fast so close to other cars side mirrors, i almost peeded in my pants!
Small red car is an Alfa Romeo MiTo and the cars with red lights on the roof are taxis
Cars with red lights on top were taxis. At the end of the video, the driver and the cops were talking to each other saying something like : "Where are you going? - We're going sthraight to ER with the van"
WHat they said around the 9:30 mark is that the cop asks in what departement they have to go, the ambulance driver says ER. Also, I already saw that video, the ambulance driver is unfamiliar with Necker so he really needs the cops to bring him directly to the good entrance.
Do you know that in some countries (I don't know for Belgium or France, but that's the case in Poland for example) emergency medical services do also have paramedics who ride motorbikes, or even plain bicycles? In a crowded city (and especially in pedestrian-only zones), they can quicker get to a person who needs help and begin treating them, before an ambulance can arrive to take over.
French or not, I feel proud: the best of humanity when we work together to save a child.
Police opens the road to ambulance only in very heavy cases.
At 09:38 they are discussing to which entry they should go, the car driver told he needs the emergency service but doesn't know where is the gate, then a policeman decides to lead him there.
Cars with red lights were taxis.
Ambulance driver asked the police to guide him to the ER.
Ambulance: The services?
Cop: The ER?
Ambulance: Yeah!
Cop: All the way through, follow me.
Rough for outriders to know how far ahead to go from their charge - all the more so when they have to blast their whistle and admonish those drivers breaking the law by failing to make way. (Amazing how quickly they got through the area around the Arc de Triomphe in the full video as its famous for being a traffic nightmare.)
Those cars with "lights" are Taxis. There is no specific colour for taxi in France, but this smal panel on the top of the car.
Red lights on cars are just Taxis. and when they arrived to the hospital, they just talking about where the emergency service is, and police officers guide them to it . Ps: sorry about my english
At 4:59 that wierd little car is an Alfa Romeo MiTo. I own one of these. Lovely little car if you get the higher powered ones.
In France we see very often moto open the road for ambulance when there is most of traffic, but it's rare it was police who did this.
SAMU = Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente (Urgent Medical Aid Service)
8:46 these are occupied taxis, the available ones have a green light.
Bonjour, je suis Belge et cette situation n'est pas du tout inhabituelle. Les conducteurs français et belges sont habitués à s'écarter et s'arrêter au son d'une ambulance pour la laisser passer. Généralement, même à Bruxelles qui réputée pour être la ville la plus embouteillée du monde, il n'y a pas besoin de l'intervention de motards de la police. Le long des autoroutes, il y a même des panneaux qui expliquent que vous devez faire cela. Je précise aussi que je suis motard au quotidien et que ce comportement de s'écarter s'effectue aussi naturellement pour laisser passer les motos dans les embouteillages.
At the end they said :
Emergency entrance we go in by the emergency entrance.
;)
Car with red lights are taxis it was their lane, the ambulance took it in the wrong way to go faster.
@IWrocker the cars with the red lights on top are just taxi's. well done by those cops. gratz to them
Guessing drivers comply because it's part of the driver training to get your licence.
And cus even assuming a driver is a asshole and don’t care about the patient, not complying is a quick way to lose your license. Atleast here in Sweden it can also land you in jail.
Or just because there is an other person life at stake and they do what they can to get out of the way. Just being a human.
Also at the end it was about driving in the hospital area thought the “urgence” services
Interesting to see that the police knows the map also inside the hospital …there will be not gain to drive so fast until there and been lost at the arrival…
That's my job, unfortunately mostly for VIPs and very very rarely for medical emergencies. In city centers my worst nightmare is cyclists and pedestrians, they just think they are not part of the traffic and don't have to listen to Police commands. They are really a pain in the ass.
The SEG (Special Escort Group) are also very interesting, they're part of the Metropolitan police in London, they're only used for top ranking officials, royals, heads of state etc. but they use some very interesting techniques to make sure whoever they're escorting never has to stop, like using whistles instead of sirens and not having a set route, they make up their route as they go, there's a very interesting video called 'Inconspicuous Ingenuity - Escorted by the Met Police SEG' all about them, this video includes footage from inside a vehicle being escorted which makes it very unique.
SEG "Special Escort Group" (the clue is in the initials) of tbe Metropolitan Police.
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You could hear that these officers used a whistle too, besides the sirens.
@darkiee69 the French police like a good whistle and it just cuts through the normal sound of a city
The British police seg riders recently killed a women, escorting some petty minor royal.
SAMU stands for Service d’Aide Médicale Urgente (or in English: Urgent Medical Aid Service) we also have SMUR but I think that’s mostly in Belgium.. I don’t remember seeing SMUR in France. SMUR stands for Service Médicale d’Urgence et Réanimation. (Or in English: Urgent Medical Service and Reanimation.)
There have been times in Australia where ambulances have been on the way to, or back from an emergency to have other drivers at intersections ignoring the sirens or running red lights. The end result being a crash or even worse an ambulance that gets flipped over.
this is what they said, roughly @ 9:30
policman : "Hello, to which part of the hospital ?" (literally translation would be "hello, which service ?")
ambulance driver : "the ER, I'm gonna search for it" (the second part is litterally "I'm gonna look", but I think belgians use that to mean "I'm gonna search")
policeman : "It's at the end"
ambulance driver : "It's for the ER or something else ?"
policeman : "yes go go go, follow us !" (literally "yes, go go, come")
(after the police bikes have already started) ambulance driver (maybe to himself or accompanying staff ?) : "we're coming in through the ER anyways" (in the meaning "we're supposed to come in through the ER anyways")
At the end, they say : which service is it ? Emergencies ? It must be ahead, lets go forward.
you missed to noticed the Place de l'Etoile with Triumph's Arch.
We do it like this in europe. Love your beard moustache 👍 greetings from belgium
Some additional information.
8:40 The cars with fixed red light are taxis (red is busy, green is available).
9:35 About the dialog between the police bikers (PB) and the ambulance driver (AD). As the ambulance was coming from far away, its driver had no idea where had to go and the emergency was still ongoing...
During the siren: "Hello"
PB1:"What medical service?"
AD: "Emergency?"
AD: "I will see" [I suppose the AD was tired and during its didn't had time to read the mission order in which it's he the service in which the child is expected]
PB1: "It will be at the very back" [of the hospital site]
AD: "Is it for emergencies?"
PB1: "Yes, that's it, it's at the very back."
AD: "Where?
PB1: "Go ahead, go ahead!"
PB2: Come on, follow me"
AD: "We do that. We have to go to the emergency service anyway"
About traffic cooperating. In most european countries we learn in driving schools how to cooperate with priviledged vehicles before we are allowed to get our driving license, first in theory then in practice, you go with an instructor near a hospital or firefighters or police station and sometimes police will even simulate for you this kind of situation so you can learn from experience. Thats why driving license costs so much here. Also not cooperating with priviledged vehicles is mandatory here, not cooperating is not a felony but still a crime and if you do not cooperate you can loose your driving license for a year and after year you need to pay for lessons and exams again to get the licence again.
That was not a fistbump in the end. Someone asked "Which service do i need to go?" "emergency"-something i didn't get and "follow me" at the end. Hope the little one made it :/
@8:39 the cars with red lights on the roof are cabs
The end dialog is the driver of the ambulance who did not know where the entrance of the emergency is. Bikers told him to follow.
9:33 They didn't know exactly where the ambulance wanted to go...
not a busy day but a normal day in Paris (when trafic is dense there's no movement for minutes)
as a french i'm surprised because i didn't know 2 things : one the belgian ambulances' sirens are totaly different than the french's ones, and 2, they transfer people between belgian and french hospital...but why?
cars with the red light on the top are taxis. At the hospital they ask for which service they have to go and he answers : "emergency"
i was ambulance driver in France and SAMU is an acronym for Service d'Aide Médicale d'Urgence which means medical emergency help service. It's a common mistake because the ambulance is not a SAMU but works for the SAMU and is a SMUR : Service Mobile d'Urgence et Réanimation (mobile service for emergencies and reanimation)
SAMU is a service in the hospital which asks for the SMUR to get the patients. When an ambulance from the SAMU moves it's never alone because most of the time they can't take the patient with them and ask for a private ambulance to meet them where the patient is (if it's on public space it's fire fighters and when it's on private space it's private ambulances).
In this specific case, it's an ambulance from the belgian SAMU (i didn't know they have a system so similar to french's system) which is escorted because SAMU never moves without any reason (how many times fire fighters and private ambulances moves for something which is not a real emergency?).
SAMU is for strict emergencies not for small injuries because when they move there's always a driver (who is often formed to emergency driving and is often a nurse) a nurse (often an caregiver) and always an emergency physician
Necker Hospital, aka "Sick Children's Hospital" is a leader in pediatric care. The child taken there probably had a special health issue. Or maybe - it isn't mentioned in the video - he lived in Belgium closer to the French border than to any Belgian dedicated hospital?
We'll never know, but there's Europe for you: the countries help each other out by sharing their mutual facilities. E.g. special units are dispatched in various countries to help in case of catastrophies such as an earthquake, wild fire, etc.
@@micade2518 as a french former ambulance driver i think the kid is transfered for something like an organ transplant because Belgium has everything needed for child healthcare (like every european country because each country developped its own medical system by itself before becoming member of the EU).
Perhaps it's better for the surgery to transfer a kid from so far away (helicopter is faster)
Perhaps the organ is avaible only in France at this exact moment or perhaps the kid is french.
the medical secrete is so sacred that it is impossible to know
Police or Gendarmerie motocycle escorting ambulances trough cities are common for vital emergencies
It wasn't a high five, but the policemen asked where the emergency station for ambulances was. I've been in the military police in France and I did some escorts like those. :)
SAMU is Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente (Urgent Medical Aid Service).
That red "Weird Little Car" is an Alfa Romeo MiTo ("Designed in MIlan/ Made in TOrino").
Timeout to watch something a bit lighter-hearted in these dark days.
Cheers from Canberra everyone, enjoy the weekend, not far now!
5:03 That's an Alfa, he may not be able to stop...
Yup, Alfa Romeo Mito
With two bikes Infront the traffic get a lot of woning that something is coming through. They do get out of the way a lot quicker out of a capital city.
Les policiers motards français font partie des meilleurs du monde, toujours impressionant lorsqu'on les croise pleine balle soit pour attraper des méchants soit pour escorter des blessés.
the cars with the red lights are taxis. And what the said was a bit strange ; the policeman asked if the ambulance goes to the emergencies :-)
unfortunately, that's an hospital I know very well since 3 yrs : I have to take my daughter there several time a year since her birth (3yo in 1 week).
Bad times over there, but this is an hospital well known, and unfortunately dedicated to children (unfortunate, because it indicates that a lot of children need special medical care)
And the chat between cops and paramedics staff at the arrival : the asked which service they need to check in, and the answer was : the emergency, so the cops took the ambulance to the emergency service entry.
As a french firefighter, I had to witness and need some escort from police : when driving through heavy traffic jam, or because the situation requires you to go afap to the hospital, you immediately notice how useful those escorts are !!!!
You can hear the ventilator beeping in the background
all the cars with "red lights " on top are taxis and arriving at the hospital they ask where is the ER
The cars with red lights seem to be cabs, driving in a lane reserved for cabs