I had to do some research on Willow Street Fire Company to discover it was 100% volunteer staffed. Kudos to the good people who devote their time to such dangerous environments. In Australia we have volunteer bush fire brigades, but to find a 100% volunteer FD is usually limited to quite small towns.
The state I live in, in America, is 80% volunteer firefighters. Yet we have a population of just over 1.3 million. But majority of our state, and I mean 70% of it isn’t populated, we have the most forested area in the continental US
It's quite a common thing in most US States to have fully volunteer fire companies. Where I grew up in northern California, we had three volunteer companies across the three close towns and a State run station near the highway as backup.
@@rabidseabee7229 Do they also provide EMS coverage as well? I've noticed quite a few volunteer EMTs working with a local FD. In Australia the ambulance services are state run, and apart from volunteer first responders, only registered career paramedics can legally work on ambulances.
@@coover65Yes, most volunteer fire departments (at least in my state of Delaware) run basic life support ambulances while advanced life support is handled by county-hired paramedics
@@cat740dt That's really interesting to read. I've been a paramedic for 25 years and involved in studying EMS providers in many countries. It seems that the US is one of the last developed countries to provide BLS ambulances.
Pretty sure he was just going further down the road where there is more space to the side of the lane so that the rescue can actually pass while there is oncoming traffic.
I have never seen a dept allow a firefighter to have a full beard due to not being able to get a good face seal on a mask, Hell even in academy we had to have a clean shave. To me this is asking for trouble.
@@brucekelley945 just thinking out loud here, but I believe positive pressure can only be achieved in two ways: 1) You have a good seal around your face. The positive pressure is triggered by inhalation. 2) You have your bypass open the entire time you are working in an IDLH atmosphere which obviously wouldn’t last long.
This is my 2 or 3rd time watching this department and kudos to the engineer driving that squad rescue. 🎉 this is how fire fighters get to a call. Not fast and not slow but right on time
It's so satisfying seeing drivers get out of the way like they're supposed to...I grew up in chester county (just outside downingtown), but I live in florida now and I see people here ignoring emergency vehicles ALL THE TIME. Can you explain the meaning of side A, side B, etc?
That's cool, you can see the Opticom traffic preemption devices working at intersections. The little white strobe light indicates that the Firetruck has communicated with that traffic control system and stops all traffic except for that in the direction of the fire truck.
Ladder (I think it is a ladder) 67 has a very cool logo. That is the Tomcat from the F-14 our slogan was Anytime baby. So someone contacted to the department was at least a F14 fan.
Likely religious exemption and also because modern respirators can still effectively seal with a groomed beard, which is why most western militaries have since allowed beards back into the military, except for the US.
Legit lol I seriously live in Lancaster what are odds but I don't live like super close to willow street I live in manor township in the neighborhood were that one house went kaboom! A couple yrs ago
firetrucks in Europe look to friendly. almost like "hey, were a firetruck, come crowd us and check us out" but american fire trucks are almost intimidating to be in the way of
One of the reasons why they are bigger than more heavily built is so the trucks can push parked vehicles out of the way or push incapacitated vehicles out of a road in order to get to a fire or to help get traffic moving on a busy road. However most departments have rules against pushing vehicles but it has been done in the past
Which red lights did they blow? The only lights that they hit on that run that were red were in the city and they did slow down considerably. Guess you've never driven a fire truck in a town with pre-emption lights
watching this video I thought that I had changed my settings playback speed to 2x. I checked, and found that it was set to normal. Must be a problem with my computer, couldn't be anything else??
1 I don't think a few seconds made any difference since they didn't do anything when they got there just standing around doing "RIT". 2 I'm guessing you know nothing about ambulance duties because do don't want to just hit your breaks hard and swerve when the E.M.T or paramedic isn't always sitting down since we can't 100% do our job's sitting down and YES I am also a 100% certified firefighter and do run fire calls.
@@rogerdehaven5603 How about letting the firetruck know that he has been seen by using the blinkers? Ardun isn't the only one noticing these things and it doesn't take much for the perception to change to 'do as I say, not as I do' when it comes to yield to emergency vehicles. Also how does the EMT driver know before hand that that unit is just assisting? Doesn't happen that fires are scaled up? The only reason you can say it would not have made a difference in this particular call, but that is not something you know in advance as an EMT driver with a fire truck behind you. The rule is very simple, you need to yield as fast as possible to emergency vehicles, not when it's most convenient... No exceptions!
@@rogerdehaven5603 I'm aware that ambulances have things going on, I'm more pointing out a pattern and a seeming lack of awareness. True, they weren't held up long in the grand scheme of things but even if the ambo was looking for a safer place to slow, both videos it showed no indication that it even noticed the fire apparatus behind it. I'm a big fan of positive deflection and using indicators to signal ones intentions to emergency vehicles. Once can be a mistake but twice starts to look like a pattern is all. Thanks for what you do and your good point about potentially having crew working inside.🙂
@Reddington_FL if you don't have the discipline to shave, how can I trust you have the discipline to train. Your mask isn't sealing with that woolley mammoth attached to your face for one. Then, when you call a mayday because you can't breathe, you're risking everyone else's life due to your inability to shave. You need to rethink your mentality. "Get over myself"? It's an understanding that it's more than just myself. It is our jobs be ready at a moments notice, and go interior. Beards as a fireman scream HIHFTY. If you support that, you might as well chew big red gum.
@ryanwells248 Wanting to shave and wanting to train are two very different things. We train very often and that guy is one of our most active members. This area is full of amish firefighters, and because of that, almost no department around has a shaving requirement. To follow up on that, I'm not going to say it has never happened, but at least in our county and surrounding ones, I have never heard of anyone calling a mayday or dying in the line of duty, and their facial hair being the cause. Trust me when I say we are not a HIHFTY department. We train to be fast and aggressive, and to go interior. I know beards are one of those things, but there are far worse things that some volunteer departments are doing across the country.
Because it’s a myth that beards prevent masks from making a seal. That was an issue 50 years ago. Not today. Look at most modern European militaries, they no longer require clean shaven faces and still meet basic NATO standards for Chem and bio warfare
It’s called a rotoray, it’s typically two red lights and a white light, or it’s two white lights and a red light. It’s just to catch attention as it spins. There’s no real justification of their use anymore they are just used for the sake of tradition but they are still effective.
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It's pretty sad how many people are completely oblivious to what's going on while they are driving. The urgent swerving to the right when a 60,000 lb giant ass vehicle with flashing lights and 3 different sirens are 100' behind you, but you should have seen _SOMETHING_ in your rearview mirrors 10 seconds ago is telling how many people are really paying attention.
Don't you guys have the sirens wired into the horn circuit so the horn acts as a modulator switch for the sirens, to save you from faffing around with the control unit?
There’s foot pedals that drive the Q siren and the Grover horn. I’m sure there’s some departments that might use some type of horn circuit but I’ve not seen it ever before. Typically the driver just drives and doesn’t handle the siren or horn.
Love how the audio cuts out just after passing the ambo lol
I can only imagine what was said lol
Probably started with FDA and I don't mean Food and Drug Administration either!!
Oh yea u know those were good words lol
And some idiot is defending the ambulance driver.
It's actually still playing, listen on headphones or earbuds and turn it up!
Love the driving. Whoever is driving, drives it like a sports car. Silky smooth
But not cautious enough at red lights.
@@Biffo1262 It's called using your eyes and looking ahead
There is just no sound like that long roll Q, brings back memories from sixty years ago.
I had to do some research on Willow Street Fire Company to discover it was 100% volunteer staffed. Kudos to the good people who devote their time to such dangerous environments. In Australia we have volunteer bush fire brigades, but to find a 100% volunteer FD is usually limited to quite small towns.
The state I live in, in America, is 80% volunteer firefighters. Yet we have a population of just over 1.3 million. But majority of our state, and I mean 70% of it isn’t populated, we have the most forested area in the continental US
It's quite a common thing in most US States to have fully volunteer fire companies. Where I grew up in northern California, we had three volunteer companies across the three close towns and a State run station near the highway as backup.
@@rabidseabee7229 Do they also provide EMS coverage as well? I've noticed quite a few volunteer EMTs working with a local FD. In Australia the ambulance services are state run, and apart from volunteer first responders, only registered career paramedics can legally work on ambulances.
@@coover65Yes, most volunteer fire departments (at least in my state of Delaware) run basic life support ambulances while advanced life support is handled by county-hired paramedics
@@cat740dt That's really interesting to read. I've been a paramedic for 25 years and involved in studying EMS providers in many countries. It seems that the US is one of the last developed countries to provide BLS ambulances.
Thanks for sharing..😊😊
3:55 I had to replay this multiple times cause it's baffling to me how that ambulance wasn't aware of you guys sooner.
mirrors are only madantory equipment, no one mentioned to use it....
Pretty sure he was just going further down the road where there is more space to the side of the lane so that the rescue can actually pass while there is oncoming traffic.
Not sure why everyone is focusing on the ambulance. Wasn’t a big deal and they yielded the ROW.
@@JanSuerth Ambo had just as much room previous to when they finally removed their heads from their heinies.
@@TS-my9yq took them 20 years to yield
I have never seen a dept allow a firefighter to have a full beard due to not being able to get a good face seal on a mask, Hell even in academy we had to have a clean shave. To me this is asking for trouble.
I thought you were gonna be exaggerating and see a guy with some slight stubble, but no he really has full beard.
@@brucekelley945 just thinking out loud here, but I believe positive pressure can only be achieved in two ways:
1) You have a good seal around your face. The positive pressure is triggered by inhalation.
2) You have your bypass open the entire time you are working in an IDLH atmosphere which obviously wouldn’t last long.
@@brucekelley945 not O.S.H.A. Approved nor is it N.F.P.A . Approved.
Beards and no drivers license is an exemption in LanCo due to the Amish. Which make up about 65% of the county’s volunteers
For clarification, you can’t drive with no license. You just ran be a FF
Would love more response videos watching from Queensland Australia. You guys rock stay safe out there.
I just want to know how the guy plans on using his SCBA with a full beard?
Embarrassing
You All Did An Outstanding Great Job 👍, And Very Impressed!
Somebody did some very fancy driving getting us to the scene.
This is my 2 or 3rd time watching this department and kudos to the engineer driving that squad rescue. 🎉 this is how fire fighters get to a call. Not fast and not slow but right on time
Amazing Job! Much respect!
Great video,
I am from Station 7, Ridley Park, Pa.
Thank you for sharing.
35’ to the 3rd floor whom ever! Nice run and good work by the brothers!
These are great videos. Strong work.
That is a long way to go
It's so satisfying seeing drivers get out of the way like they're supposed to...I grew up in chester county (just outside downingtown), but I live in florida now and I see people here ignoring emergency vehicles ALL THE TIME.
Can you explain the meaning of side A, side B, etc?
Alpha is the front of the structure. Bravo is the left side, charlie the rear, delta the right
This is an outstanding video! 👍🏻👍🏻 Thanks for the ride along, enjoyed it.
Good job as always guys.
일하시느라고생많네요
Really amazing job
Thanks
Always love the spinny things on the front
Rotoray
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 ?
@@joeritchie7286 that’s what the spinning thing is on the front is called, it’s a rotoray
@@AppalachianMountaineer1863 aw right ok , thanks
I don't know what was said, but I do know that ALOT was said about that ambulance at 3:40
ikr? of all the vehicles to fail to get out of the way....i bet some very, shall we say colorful language was employed...
Surprisingly, there wasn't haha. I actually muted it because they were talking about a skunk that was dead in the road and smelled awful lol
@@Fire-Rescue50 So...smelly language. Lol
Well done on the Q
Another sweet video. Stay safe
nice driving!
iba a madre como se dice 🎉🎉🎉🎉
Good job.
That's cool, you can see the Opticom traffic preemption devices working at intersections. The little white strobe light indicates that the Firetruck has communicated with that traffic control system and stops all traffic except for that in the direction of the fire truck.
Not at every light and he ran a couple of those reds a little too quick.
Great Driving Sir
That Q is music to my ears.
Классное видео
A long run!
love the muting of the video for the comments being made to the ambulance. LOL
Awesome video!
👍🏽✅👍🏽✅ KEEP THEM COMING
When everyone BUT the ambo moves over when they're supposed to. That's a straight up Derpa Derp Derp moment.
Ladder (I think it is a ladder) 67 has a very cool logo. That is the Tomcat from the F-14 our slogan was Anytime baby. So someone contacted to the department was at least a F14 fan.
All my life I had no idea the whirling was linked to the acceleration of the fire truck
It's not
Cool Stuff dude. I was an electrician at Alcoa for a while.
At the 8:35 stamp... how does this gentleman have a full damn beard!?
someone else said this department has exemptions to the beard and drivers license rules because 65% of their volunteers are amish
Likely religious exemption and also because modern respirators can still effectively seal with a groomed beard, which is why most western militaries have since allowed beards back into the military, except for the US.
Legit lol I seriously live in Lancaster what are odds but I don't live like super close to willow street I live in manor township in the neighborhood were that one house went kaboom! A couple yrs ago
Nice video keep doing more I like watching these
i find the videos
really nice of you
The American fire engines simply look better than those from Germany
Greetings from Mönchengladbach in Germany
firetrucks in Europe look to friendly. almost like "hey, were a firetruck, come crowd us and check us out" but american fire trucks are almost intimidating to be in the way of
I live near Appleton WI where Pierce equipment is made. They test drive them and it's fun to see where the engine is going.
@@roseknott2832 hey fox valley gang
One of the reasons why they are bigger than more heavily built is so the trucks can push parked vehicles out of the way or push incapacitated vehicles out of a road in order to get to a fire or to help get traffic moving on a busy road. However most departments have rules against pushing vehicles but it has been done in the past
8:51 In my 24 years in the fire department I’ve near seen a career firefighter with a beard.
They aren't career pal.
Agree. Volunteer or career you cannot get a seal with your mask.
The guy with the beard did not pass a fit test.
Religious exemption,
This is Lancaster County PA. A lot of Amish and Mennonite
Any plans to upgrade the lighting for a brighter warning?
keep safe
They blew through so many red lights without slowing down. In our district we are required to come to an almost complete stop. Scary.
Which red lights did they blow? The only lights that they hit on that run that were red were in the city and they did slow down considerably. Guess you've never driven a fire truck in a town with pre-emption lights
You watched another video....
If you can’t hear a Q screaming at you and see the flashing lights and brightly colored truck. It’s your fault for getting hit tbh.
watching this video I thought that I had changed my settings playback speed to 2x. I checked, and found that it was set to normal. Must be a problem with my computer, couldn't be anything else??
The driver must race on the weekends.
Amazing Job! Yo from Russia
OOh I wanna drift that circular car park
Love the guy with the full beard!👍🏻😂
8:35 came straight to comments to see what people had to say about the beard lol
Liked and shared
Thats the second time I've seen that EMS vehicle not playing attention and holding you guys up. Disappointing.
1 I don't think a few seconds made any difference since they didn't do anything when they got there just standing around doing "RIT". 2 I'm guessing you know nothing about ambulance duties because do don't want to just hit your breaks hard and swerve when the E.M.T or paramedic isn't always sitting down since we can't 100% do our job's sitting down and YES I am also a 100% certified firefighter and do run fire calls.
I was about to say the same thing Ardun
@@rogerdehaven5603 How about letting the firetruck know that he has been seen by using the blinkers? Ardun isn't the only one noticing these things and it doesn't take much for the perception to change to 'do as I say, not as I do' when it comes to yield to emergency vehicles. Also how does the EMT driver know before hand that that unit is just assisting? Doesn't happen that fires are scaled up? The only reason you can say it would not have made a difference in this particular call, but that is not something you know in advance as an EMT driver with a fire truck behind you.
The rule is very simple, you need to yield as fast as possible to emergency vehicles, not when it's most convenient... No exceptions!
@@2Fast4Mellow The ambulance can saw they did as fast and safely as possible. Get over it.
@@rogerdehaven5603 I'm aware that ambulances have things going on, I'm more pointing out a pattern and a seeming lack of awareness. True, they weren't held up long in the grand scheme of things but even if the ambo was looking for a safer place to slow, both videos it showed no indication that it even noticed the fire apparatus behind it. I'm a big fan of positive deflection and using indicators to signal ones intentions to emergency vehicles. Once can be a mistake but twice starts to look like a pattern is all. Thanks for what you do and your good point about potentially having crew working inside.🙂
Poor little t he was with the
Great video man I’m just curious is the truck powered by a Detroit Siri 60
What's the spinning thing on the front? Never seen those, does it serve any actual practical purpose?
Home boy said screw a seal im growing a beard
It took about 7 to 8 minutes to get there.
еле-еле как душа в теле
Hardly the towering inferno was it ?
Question for all the firefights etc. If you passed by a police car,ambulance could they follow you and join the call or not?
8 minute response....they got there just in time to help pack hose
I live in this city
Surprised the guy at 8:38 is allowed to have a beard since its probably hard to seal up a mask around it.
I respected everything up to this exact point
@@ryanwells248 lol, so you lack respect because of facial hair? Get over yourself.
@Reddington_FL if you don't have the discipline to shave, how can I trust you have the discipline to train. Your mask isn't sealing with that woolley mammoth attached to your face for one. Then, when you call a mayday because you can't breathe, you're risking everyone else's life due to your inability to shave. You need to rethink your mentality. "Get over myself"? It's an understanding that it's more than just myself. It is our jobs be ready at a moments notice, and go interior. Beards as a fireman scream HIHFTY. If you support that, you might as well chew big red gum.
@ryanwells248 Wanting to shave and wanting to train are two very different things. We train very often and that guy is one of our most active members. This area is full of amish firefighters, and because of that, almost no department around has a shaving requirement. To follow up on that, I'm not going to say it has never happened, but at least in our county and surrounding ones, I have never heard of anyone calling a mayday or dying in the line of duty, and their facial hair being the cause. Trust me when I say we are not a HIHFTY department. We train to be fast and aggressive, and to go interior. I know beards are one of those things, but there are far worse things that some volunteer departments are doing across the country.
Thing people watch these videos for the siren.
Love the full beard… how’s that work masking up?
What happens if you are taking a crap and get a call? They just leave you or do you save the cleaning for later?😂
why something rotates? (Sorry for my bad english)
8:45 How can that member where a SCBA mask?
Because it’s a myth that beards prevent masks from making a seal. That was an issue 50 years ago. Not today. Look at most modern European militaries, they no longer require clean shaven faces and still meet basic NATO standards for Chem and bio warfare
😊😊
It’s the beard for me
he might be exterior only
@@em68855 Not with that Airpack on……
What is with the dude with the beard? no beards in the fire service OSHA Regs
the paw patrol
Not enforced due to Amish exemptions for volunteer departments
EU here: what is that thing going round and round on the left? is that lights? like red lights on and off?
Saw a comment saying it was just another emergency light that catches attention better or something.
It’s called a rotoray, it’s typically two red lights and a white light, or it’s two white lights and a red light. It’s just to catch attention as it spins. There’s no real justification of their use anymore they are just used for the sake of tradition but they are still effective.
Would have loved to watch the on-scene footage, but it was all filmed in dizzy-cam so I had to punch out.
They plan on pruning trees with that Tower??? Thats about all ur gonna do.
Safety Beard.
0:00: Starting response
7:28: Arrival on scene
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Why did the ambulance @ 3:51 not move?
Re watch again no shoulder to even pull over onto until that area. When they finally did.
Truck was moving
Does anyone know what that spinning thing in front of the fire engine do?
it's emergency light that spin i think check the last vid before this the fully dark one
It’s called a rotoray, some trucks just have em since it catches attention more :)
1:37
1:20
It's pretty sad how many people are completely oblivious to what's going on while they are driving. The urgent swerving to the right when a 60,000 lb giant ass vehicle with flashing lights and 3 different sirens are 100' behind you, but you should have seen _SOMETHING_ in your rearview mirrors 10 seconds ago is telling how many people are really paying attention.
You got pretty much same beard just like me 😅😅😅 doesn't matter least not catching on fire...
Ok that to far
that mask will work good with that full Beard, Ha!
What's the weird beeping sound that goes up and down?
Edit: it's scary how fast fire engines can go
Thats someone keying up on the radio or switching channels
Powercall siren
4:26 that q: screaming help me
A non-responding EV in front of a responding one lol 3:42
First due special service
Toke them over a minute (don't know if this department does this but getting out the station should not take 0:00-1:07)
10:00 nice beard, lol
How's the one guy have a full beard??
SCBA with a beard ??
How does he have a full beard ?
Don't you guys have the sirens wired into the horn circuit so the horn acts as a modulator switch for the sirens, to save you from faffing around with the control unit?
There’s foot pedals that drive the Q siren and the Grover horn. I’m sure there’s some departments that might use some type of horn circuit but I’ve not seen it ever before. Typically the driver just drives and doesn’t handle the siren or horn.
Any “new” content possible?