Fire Truck Responds Through Traffic Backed Up On Freeway
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 ธ.ค. 2017
- Buchanan Valley Volunteer Fire Department in Orrtanna, PA responds in their rig to a motor vehicle accident on the freeway. The accident caused a long traffic jam/back up which the fire truck had to navigate.
In most European countries it is mandatory for all drivers to create a “rescue road” when traffic comes to a stand on a highway. All cars move as far right as possible, except the cars on the left lane, they move as far as possible to the left. This improves response time and saves lives
That’s how it’s supposed to be in America but that doesn’t always happen
@@chrisbeatty743no it’s not a requirement here but it should be
You just fulfilled some kids dreams...
OMG 420 how?
@@lightupskechers488 Lots of kids love to see/hear fire trucks responding
@@Southern_Heritage me too.
@@BumberenzoManilupinoCityme three
me four
7:59 firefighters be like :- your not gonna movie?
Okay I'm gonna deafen you
Thoughts and prayers going up for everybody who got woken up by the Q
Me Too I Love Fire Trucks Responding To Calls
Damn they had to block the entire road
That would have never happened if people had stayed off the shoulders so emergency responders could use at least one of them
Pamela Schramke If he would have come the opposite way of the highway he wouldn't go through such traffic. Take a close look at the end of the video, there is no center divider.
Angelo,
While its a nice idea and could work well its also dangerous.
Look at all the people unable to do something as simple as pulling to the right.
People would have no clue what to do.
Imagine little old grannie with Alzheimers going head on with a firetruck.
Pamela,
Unfortunately American law states that vehicles must pull to the right when an emergency vehicle is approaching.
This is due to the fact that faster traffic is generally on the left hand side. Pursuits are safer when passing on the left.
Carter Thank you. I've been driving in the USA for many years now. The left shoulder SHOULD be open if the law was followed. However, an accident on the interstate is far different than on city roads. If EVERYONE moved right as they are supposed to do, the left shoulder would be open. It did not help matters this fire truck was attempting to drive down the middle of the interstate. That's actually not how it's supposed to work either. If people used their brains, they'd have stayed in their lanes and left the shoulders, or at least the left shoulder open.
Angelo Tan True!
who else saw the police car responding on the other side?
Me!
10:23 They can't go anywhere except drive off the bridge or plow into other cars. So fire truck can get through.
Just a little advice. If you come upon backed up traffic like this its best to kill the lights and sirens and drive down the emergency lane.
If they don't notice you they wont freak out and block the whole highway.
It's unconventional but generally wont break any of your protocols or laws so long as you maintain some minimal emergency lighting.
Carter iys actually our local protocol to do just that. Too many lights and sirens can be confusing for people. We also stick all the way to the left unless it's not possible.
It looks like at the begining there wasn't much of a shoulder.
thats not in PA thats in Buchanan VA.
Great video!!
9:48 Did anyone else know a fire truck had a loudspeaker!!!!!?????
Not all do. I've been on more than a few with no Mike.
@@RandyCarpadus If a fire truck has the sirens with the powercall, wail, yelp, whatver, usually it'll have a mike as well, as it's the standard siren police cars use as well.
@@pranaavsaravanan7625 reread what I said.
If a vehicle(doesn’t matter what kind) has a siren box with a speaker, it will most likely have a mic system built in
Imagine ur sleeping then u suddenly hear them sirens
The siren on fire trucks has always confused me, does someone control it? If so, how?
There is usually a foot pedal for the q siren. There is a pedal on the passenger officer seat and the driver seat.
Please google "siren control", then click on images.
Thanks!
That was some excessive Q siren.
Usually a button or a pedal
Common sense and logic would tell me that if there was a motor vehicle accident on a busy freeway, then the traffic that was travelling on that freeway would have nowhere to go. This is called coning to a complete STOP. Unless fire trucks have developed wings enabling them to fly, then the only advice I can offer is.... keep taking your blood pressure meds
Pretty sure this is in Buchanan, VA and the highway is Interstate 81.
Why the apple keybaord????
That's just terrible!
11:04 Sorry sir, I was listening to some music on my smartphone and I didn't hear you behind me.
Commercial vehicles who do not make every effort to align themselves properly: on the spot $5000 fine to the business owner for FIRST OFFENCE, $10000 for second and so on. Individual drivers loose their licence after third offence. Companies have vehicle impounded after third offence. All it should take is a photo with a date stamp and GPS info, uploaded to relevant traffic authority.
The only acceptable excuses could be a catastrophic breakdown of the obstructing vehicle, or an medical incident involving the driver, or if the driver is already under instruction from a police officer or emergency personnel
I have some sympathy for domestic vehicles not sure of what to do when boxed in, but professionals are supposed to know what to do.
there's a whole shoulder for them, why are they splitting traffic in such a way that it forces many cars onto the shoulder? what a clusterfuck this caused
Because there was never a shoulder to drive on at the beginning 😂
Thats pretty good driving between the veichles,pretty impressed
9.50 why turn off the siren sound？
Siren has to turn off in order for the speaker to work.
No point to run the siren if you’re stuck
Probably for the passenger to talk to the people to get out the way
@@louism.3435 Bingo
This video is a rip from FireRescue50's channel..........
seems like they forgot to turn on their headlights
You can see when they exited the station that the headlights were on..I think phone was bad at picking up light once they reached dark roads.
People are lacking common sense or the ability to think for themselves just make a lane.
Police needs to follow you and write tickets! They all know better!
Waste of resources.
Please google "ALPR system" every firetruck and railroad crossing should be equipped.
Why don't you just drive down the hard shoulder? like what is it with America's rules? is it not advised? against the law? like what? In the UK. If traffic is like this, you'll have the emergency vehicle, police, ambulance, fire, coast guard, doesn't matter, they'll be rocketing down the hard shoulder. Full lights sometimes sirens. They get through SO fast. It's never a thing in the UK to have the emergency vehicle try and push all the others into the hard shoulder and personally from all the videos I've watched, it works a lot better over here in the UK the way we do it. Only time in the UK this happens is if there is no hard shoulder or if the hard shoulder is 'reduced' so can't safely fit a vehicle driving down it, then you'll have something similar to this where they try and go down the middle, but yeah, normally, pop down the hard shoulder, bam your there.
Can't fit
vollys
Pretty sweet video to watch
PUSH THEM
thats how you cause another accident and that helps nobody
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