[Helsinki] Ambulance stuck in traffic [FI | 5.2019]

Ambulance HE1322 was responding to a emergency call at the central train station in Helsinki, Finland from Erottaja Fire Station. Due to traffic jams, the response was delayed for several minutes.
A pedestrian is trying to get cars to move @01:04.
Copyright by ssa0089 - 2019

[@Rebasepoiss]

Clever guy waving the cars along to clear the road at 1:02 , props to him.

[@miljkovicsrb]

That's the problem with road works, road repair services never leave a room for the traffic to move when the emergency vehicles are responding.

[@kempo_95]

Mostly because that room is needed for the construction site itself.

[@snowfall6767]

0:52 sounded really good

[@FirePhoenixEmergencyVideos]

Very nice Finland catch, with great siren use too! Pity about the delay, but it looks like one of those tougher situations where not much more could have been done

[@UrgencesGeneve]

Same problem everywhere... Nice to hear a two tones siren ;)

[@patrupumpkin]

@@BlackieFoxxless Some ambulances in Finland have wail though :P

[@nordicemergencyrespondings7896]

@@BlackieFoxxless Usually only EMS Supervisor, Fire chief, some ambulances and new cop cars uses Sarco-Sos 103 with Wail

[@nordicemergencyrespondings7896]

@@BlackieFoxxless I hear it almost everyday 😂

[@gottistgeil579]

Well, then the OLD units are better, i.e., SAFER,
since the silly, childish, ridiculous phaser (hyper yelp ["machine gun"]) sound is hardly noticable for drivers INSIDE of other vehicles, the frequency spectrum/RANGE is too small/short/LIMITED;
it conveys a (psychological, subjective) sense of urgency (because of its speed) ONLY(!!!) to pedestrians/bicyclists or operators of cars/buses/trucks with OPEN windows, and all of them have to be near by...
-- So, it's actually WORTHLESS (except for sounding "cool" 🙄 🤦‍♂️), and therefore, outta be outlawed, made illegal, because this sound effect is not suitable, when it comes to the serious business of public safety, a worldwide (luckily Germany and a few other countries haven't yet allowed this joke of a so called "siren") hype;
a risk of life, health and property (btw, wail, yelp & the mechanical Q ain't much better).
NOTHING, still, beats the (oh so boring, "gay"/stupid sounding, annoying [what a siren should be]) Hi-Lo, 2-Tone ... n o t h i n g .

[@gottistgeil579]

...Oops, sorry, I misunderstood/-read -- ok, then in that case, the NEWER units...
(But it doesn't matter, as long as they've all got HIGH LOW!
😜)
Hey-Ho
😎

[@EmergencyMuenchen]

Who doesn't know the daily traffic jams🤔😂 Great ambulance and very nice video!

[@MikaelYlen-Julin]

0:47 very good sound

[@jamikivela8662]

harmi ettei manskilla ole raitiovaunukiskoja

[@Zetaretiiculi]

Oof, that sucks. Hopefully the call wasn't anything where time matters.

[@tcntad87]

Code 3 usually means its an emergency;) Drivers are a-holes sometimes

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@tcntad87 well, often it's an emergency, until you arrive on scene and see what it's actually about :D
Sometimes I'm happy that people don't know to which bs calls we sometimes respond to with lights and sirens

[@tcntad87]

@@EnjoyFirefighting Yea I know that.

[@Moscow-we1je]

Profile ambulance.

[@EmergencyScandinavia]

Yes 👍

[@weesky2000]

Those cars yield. Nice

[@nordicemergencyrespondings7896]

I have heard "phaser" siren only once in Finland, it's not very common. Nice catch.

[@gottistgeil579]

The silly, childish, ridiculous phaser (hyper yelp ["machine gun"]) sound is hardly noticable for drivers INSIDE of other vehicles, because its frequency spectrum/RANGE is too small/short/LIMITED;
it conveys a (psychological, subjective) sense of urgency (because of its speed) ONLY(!!!) to pedestrians/bicyclists or operators of cars/buses/trucks with OPEN windows, and all of them have to be near by...
- So, it's actually WORTHLESS (except for sounding "cool" 🙄 🤦‍♂️), and therefore, outta be outlawed, made illegal, because this sound effect is not suitable, when it comes to the serious business of public safety, a worldwide hype (luckily Germany and a few other countries haven't [yet] allowed this joke of a "siren", and other types*):
a risk of life, health and property.
(*Btw, wail, yelp & even the mechanical Q ain't much better>>.)
>>NOTHING(!), still, beats the (oh so boring, "gay" or stupid sounding, annoying [what a siren should be]) Hi-Lo/2-Tone/"European".

[@gottistgeil579]

@kryzon daan
👏🏻 👌🏻 👍🏻 🙌🏻
Wow! EXACTLY.
And I liked your "alarming".
(...ALMOST better than "sense of urgency", hehe 😜.)
:)

[@Wavei]

varför använder finland fortfarande ett rött kors istället för blåa "snöflingor" på sina ambulanser?

[@Zetaretiiculi]

Never thought about that, good point. Then again the whole ambulance livery thing is kinda odd here in Finland. Nearly every city/region here have different ambulance (and fire truck) designs, it's not standardized nationwide like police cars.

[@EnjoyFirefighting]

@@Zetaretiiculi when they have a common design within a certain region they are at least a bit ahead of many places in Germany. While we have a standardized design in some states, EMS districts, counties or cities, in other places the design might differ from one EMS provider to the next one already

[@EmergencyScandinavia]

Normalt sett får det röda korset inte användas i fredstid enligt finsk lag. Räddningsverket i Helsingfors har dock special tillstånd från finska myndigheter att använda det. Det är samma sak i Sverige, för att få använda det röda korset måste man ansöka hos Socialstyrelsen.

[@Wavei]

@@EmergencyScandinavia varför vill man göra det istället för att använda blåa stjärnan? Har inte sett det i Sverige, endast på vissa IVPA ambulanser och brandbilar

[@EmergencyScandinavia]

@@Wavei Av tradition skulle jag tro. Den du kallar för den blåa stjärnan heter för övrigt Star of Life :)