It amazes me how the drivers in all the videos can navigate with such ease, guess that's all part of the training. Bless all Emergency Response personnel.
must be a 1994/90's era Ford E350 based chassis, I own a 94 ford e350 ambulance, proud of it. It's my daily driver and I know the countless lives it has saved over its years of service with EMT's.
My mom and dad started their ambulance driving at 19. No governors on the engine at the time for them. My dads most dangerous call was a child drowning and they were the closest unit, only they were 10 minutes away normal traffic. He got on a straight away road (Arizona, Phoenix), and said it was the only time he had the speed dial circled around back to 10 mph (115). His crew got there in time, but he’s not sure what happened after.
Yes, PG is a majority volunteer dept. This particular one is right down the street from the University of MD, so you have a lot of college students that volunteer/live in with the dept.
@@kel7149 stores were a very cool addition but sadly never performed very well in daylight but ridiculously bright at night couldent miss them at all thats it though LEDs have the color but have the day time brightness not to mention very low power consumption (can pretty much run the full ambulance lighting off 10 amps compared to stobe needing 30 amps and halogen needing a cool hundred or more amps lol LED is here to stay for a long time but the sounds of the strobe power supplys firing off and the rotator motors will be missed
Both the medics on this unit are so young. I wonder if they are still working as medics today? And if so they could look back on this video and see how far they've come!
For people freaking out about how they may seem incompetent, slow, whatever: They're EMT's, not Paramedics, meaning the call isn't really life or death, and rescue medics would have already arrived on scene. As EMT's driving an Ambulance, they're usually going to be for transport, not being first responding rescue. Also, the first sentence of the description says it's a Volunteer FD station, so it's no surprise they look so young and their equipment isn't too great, don't blame them, blame bureaucracy.
Actually emt,...and paramedics usually ride on the same truck, most always, you have someone who's higher up. Sometimes you have two paramedics, ATLEAST that's the way it is at all our stations here.
Hello! here's in italy in the Red Cross Facility of my town we got a what we call "stradario (strada= road) it's a list of all way of my town with indications from our base like go to X street and at second left... on my mobile i've downloaded an offline gps called OSMAND and there i've set some way points like "base" and Hospital" it's pretty easy to go everywhere without killing gigabytes or battey. Other volunteers bring therir own gps, but i prefer the offline one, it has more detail than a garmin, it's like a semi-military detail map. very useful.
+Caleb Andrew Lewis greetings. here the entire ambulance system is made by volunteers trained on six-months long course. despite of you we can't go on vein treatmeant (like adrenaline or narcan episodes) there were some ambulances with Just a medic onboard, now we got the med-car, so the meds are free to go after the patient is treated or they'll come on the ambulance. pretty different from yours, you're EMT degree is like a nurse degree
Just for fun, I actually looked up what the LONGEST ambulance trip was and even though I don't remember right at the moment how far it was, I'll tell ya right now, I really dont think I wanted to be the patient who had to lay on the gurney for the whole trip. I just found it, it's actually listed in the Guiness Book of World Records, 2,031 Miles. in a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 312 Diesel ambulance.
They might look professional but they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing. This is a volunteer department so they handle calls of less urgency, but the driving to me was fine. It’s good he’s not driving too fast because he’s probably not the most experienced. He gives people some space to respond and gets to the scene in a timely fashion.
In my country it might be even slower as emergency vehicles obey speed limits & usually stop at red lights. Most of our roads are dual-carriageways too with a dividing fence in the middle so it'll be impossible to overtake traffic by going into the lanes for oncoming traffic. But sometimes they'll also 1st send another rescuer out to the casualty on a scooter (since they can reach them quicker than an ambulance, to help assess & stabilise the injury while waiting for the ambulance to arrive). I've also seen a university project here that's developing drones that our emergency/rescue services can use to send medical supplies to anyone among the general public who's first-aid trained & the nearest to any casualty to use to stabilise the casualty's injury 1st while waiting for paramedics to arrive. Besides a few volunteers our emergency services also employs conscripts, and sometimes they may dispatch a private ambulance (from companies that the government currently has a contract with, some of whom can park their ambulances at fire stations) to the scene instead of using their own
Hunter Shroff Map books are all that's needed. Even today any Department that uses CAD still relies on map books because CAD systems tend to go down alot.
+D Ray You got THAT right, you have no idea how many times over the radio I hear '*Unit type&number* Enroute/Responding, no Mobile CAD' or '*ID number* onscene, no mobile CAD.' in my county.
+Hunter Shroff i may be wrong, but what if something happens to the gps satellites (god forbid) and someone is on the verge of dying, i think it's better they don't rely on it 100%
+GiftedHeart :) True that and these guys are young, after a few years of running many many codes they should know just about every address off the top of their heads.
@xSantiago777 In Michigan, difficulty breathing is Priority 1 because it's life threatening. Anything life threatening is Priority 1 and anything determined to not be life threatening is Priority 3.
+Myron Black well you shouldn't be because they are breaking a major hippa violation. You must be 18 years of age Nationwide to perform any kind of emergency medical care for any type of agency.
ok can anyone tell me what the whirring/ticking noise is from at 4:10? I know its from the lights, but what exactly causes it? It happens on my ambulance as well.
I've found that "skipping" the siren is actually a nifty traffic mover myself. Only works if you've got a Whelen siren on board though, don't think the others can do that...not 100% sure though.
Well in my area (Upstate NY) ambulances are identified by their number, and prefixed with either an A (ALS) or B (BLS), so for example, A6159 would be an ALS ambulance. A vehicle identified as, say, Medic 51, would be an ALS fly car, and a vehicle identified as, say, Defib 63, would be a BLS fly car. I know it's different all over, but it's just unusual for me to hear an ambulance referred to as Medic.
@theshortvideomaster1 No, not really too young. In PG county you get as much experience in a year as five or more years in other places. Age has nothing to do with maturity and expertise.
I've been on stuff that has been declared non emergency response you arrive and the pt is almost dead needless to say we upgraded to emergency in route to the hospital
GPS is an aid only. Learn to map read , in the city it's much easier. I was with SAMU in Paris all we used was maps A to Z , after a period of time you pretty much know everywhere. Don't rely on GPS.
They often sound the same because they use a certain cadence when speaking so that the words that they use are better understood. They use vocal breaks a lot more to let the person on the other end understand and comprehend what is being said. That's why a dispatcher often sounds just a little bit like a cross between a person and a robot.
Yeah Fed Sig PA-300's have wind downs so you can't do it, we have them on 3 of our rigs, the 4th has the Whelen, the wind down is cool in it's own way but not really handy.
Lol the guy was like "he has tuberculosis" and the driver was like "trouble breathing" xD how do you get tuberculosis from trouble breathing lol that was funny
The driver is a very good driver I have been valeteering life squad for the t.w.p I live in for 28 years and some times I have to drive and when I'm not driving I'm in the back of the life squad
@xsantiago777 Just trouble breathing?. I have went to plenty of sob(trouble breathing) and the patients almost dead... I dont see how you can say SOB is not a code 3 response... Volenteer or not...
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It amazes me how the drivers in all the videos can navigate with such ease, guess that's all part of the training. Bless all Emergency Response personnel.
watch the european ones then you'll see more skill on narrower roads
Gotta love that "Strobe" feedback.
For 15 years I have worked for a fire department as a paramedic and I can say without a doubt “ain’t no job finer than one in EMS.”
must be a 1994/90's era Ford E350 based chassis, I own a 94 ford e350 ambulance, proud of it. It's my daily driver and I know the countless lives it has saved over its years of service with EMT's.
All first responders are a blessing. And all emergency vehicles are worth their weight in gold
My mom and dad started their ambulance driving at 19. No governors on the engine at the time for them. My dads most dangerous call was a child drowning and they were the closest unit, only they were 10 minutes away normal traffic. He got on a straight away road (Arizona, Phoenix), and said it was the only time he had the speed dial circled around back to 10 mph (115). His crew got there in time, but he’s not sure what happened after.
Yes, PG is a majority volunteer dept. This particular one is right down the street from the University of MD, so you have a lot of college students that volunteer/live in with the dept.
Did anyone else catch the EMT on the right saying, "TB? Tuberculosis?" and the one driving goes, "Haha, no. Trouble breathing."
TB is definitely something you don't wanna hear haha
Brendan Boose Haha it always pays to get clarification
This is the exact reason why 'Trouble Breathing' in the UK was changed to DIB 'Difficulty In Breathing'.
TB is a disease that cows get
1_foxtrot_01 and humans and other animals. It's a fact.
Old school strobes...... I miss that sound.
I do too
I love that sound so much the old siren the old strobes it’s amazing
Yeah, I haven’t been in an ambulance yet (ttG) but I like it
Man rotators and strobes were it. LED is nice but old stuff is way better.
Strobes are lights not sirens.
the sound of the caps charging gotta love the old strobes (i still got an old edge 9000 8 strobe love that old brick dim as hell in daylight though)
Sad
@@kel7149 stores were a very cool addition but sadly never performed very well in daylight but ridiculously bright at night couldent miss them at all thats it though LEDs have the color but have the day time brightness not to mention very low power consumption (can pretty much run the full ambulance lighting off 10 amps compared to stobe needing 30 amps and halogen needing a cool hundred or more amps lol LED is here to stay for a long time but the sounds of the strobe power supplys firing off and the rotator motors will be missed
I love the chirping noise the lights make
Always send someone out to meet the Ambulance if possible. It makes life a lot easier and ensures the patient is attended to ASAP
I could do that ambulance driving if were possible, but that medic stuff isnt for me. Much respect for that profession.
That was fun it felt like I was sitting in the back seat ! 😁👍
Both the medics on this unit are so young. I wonder if they are still working as medics today? And if so they could look back on this video and see how far they've come!
Love the shit talk about volunteer/age. I'd rather have someone there then no one at all.
thats not necessarily true lol
Ummm never say anything about bad words please!
The LED sign listed a call on Baltimore Ave, but the ambulance was dispatched to 6000 Greenbelt Rd.
For people freaking out about how they may seem incompetent, slow, whatever: They're EMT's, not Paramedics, meaning the call isn't really life or death, and rescue medics would have already arrived on scene. As EMT's driving an Ambulance, they're usually going to be for transport, not being first responding rescue. Also, the first sentence of the description says it's a Volunteer FD station, so it's no surprise they look so young and their equipment isn't too great, don't blame them, blame bureaucracy.
Actually emt,...and paramedics usually ride on the same truck, most always, you have someone who's higher up. Sometimes you have two paramedics, ATLEAST that's the way it is at all our stations here.
I love this guys content
wait... there's NO gps on ambulances? OH man. I'm in EMT-B school right now. I need to get better at knowing directions without a GPS.
some have them, some dont. my new department didn't have one so I bought a garmin and mounted it :)
Caleb Andrew Lewis Hows the class going?
Hello! here's in italy in the Red Cross Facility of my town we got a what we call "stradario (strada= road) it's a list of all way of my town with indications from our base like go to X street and at second left...
on my mobile i've downloaded an offline gps called OSMAND and there i've set some way points like "base" and Hospital" it's pretty easy to go everywhere without killing gigabytes or battey. Other volunteers bring therir own gps, but i prefer the offline one, it has more detail than a garmin, it's like a semi-military detail map. very useful.
EMT - Galloway I passed NREMT on my first try. Starting Advanced in a week.
+Caleb Andrew Lewis greetings. here the entire ambulance system is made by volunteers trained on six-months long course. despite of you we can't go on vein treatmeant (like adrenaline or narcan episodes) there were some ambulances with Just a medic onboard, now we got the med-car, so the meds are free to go after the patient is treated or they'll come on the ambulance. pretty different from yours, you're EMT degree is like a nurse degree
Just for fun, I actually looked up what the LONGEST ambulance trip was and even though I don't remember right at the moment how far it was, I'll tell ya right now, I really dont think I wanted to be the patient who had to lay on the gurney for the whole trip. I just found it, it's actually listed in the Guiness Book of World Records, 2,031 Miles. in a Mercedes Benz Sprinter 312 Diesel ambulance.
The strobe pack!!! Love it can visualize the pattern in my head!!!
I guess you could say that they.... shopped till they dropped YYEEEEAAAAH!
Cheesey dude
At 0:22 whats that loud siren called i hear it on firefighters radios all the time when they get a call
They might look professional but they’re doing what they’re supposed to be doing. This is a volunteer department so they handle calls of less urgency, but the driving to me was fine. It’s good he’s not driving too fast because he’s probably not the most experienced. He gives people some space to respond and gets to the scene in a timely fashion.
In my country it might be even slower as emergency vehicles obey speed limits & usually stop at red lights. Most of our roads are dual-carriageways too with a dividing fence in the middle so it'll be impossible to overtake traffic by going into the lanes for oncoming traffic. But sometimes they'll also 1st send another rescuer out to the casualty on a scooter (since they can reach them quicker than an ambulance, to help assess & stabilise the injury while waiting for the ambulance to arrive). I've also seen a university project here that's developing drones that our emergency/rescue services can use to send medical supplies to anyone among the general public who's first-aid trained & the nearest to any casualty to use to stabilise the casualty's injury 1st while waiting for paramedics to arrive. Besides a few volunteers our emergency services also employs conscripts, and sometimes they may dispatch a private ambulance (from companies that the government currently has a contract with, some of whom can park their ambulances at fire stations) to the scene instead of using their own
there ems are run by the county they paid there fire are volunteers .
Im so confused why dont they have GPS
Hunter Shroff
Map books are all that's needed. Even today any Department that uses CAD still relies on map books because CAD systems tend to go down alot.
+D Ray You got THAT right, you have no idea how many times over the radio I hear '*Unit type&number* Enroute/Responding, no Mobile CAD' or '*ID number* onscene, no mobile CAD.' in my county.
+Hunter Shroff i may be wrong, but what if something happens to the gps satellites (god forbid) and someone is on the verge of dying, i think it's better they don't rely on it 100%
+GiftedHeart :)
True that and these guys are young, after a few years of running many many codes they should know just about every address off the top of their heads.
Im also confused, here in Sweden im 99% sure they only use GPS, and are tracking the phone calls.
@xSantiago777 In Michigan, difficulty breathing is Priority 1 because it's life threatening. Anything life threatening is Priority 1 and anything determined to not be life threatening is Priority 3.
That siren uses the exact same siren as the ambulances from London, UK
they look like they are both under 18
This could be a volunteer ems post
I'm 15 and a EMR
+Pain4Gains I am not 21 yet. I have already been on a ride along with Sheriff's office. We pulled 3 cars over.
+Allen Henderson i started working in the er at 16
+Myron Black well you shouldn't be because they are breaking a major hippa violation. You must be 18 years of age Nationwide to perform any kind of emergency medical care for any type of agency.
Is that a 7.3 Powerstroke or a gas?
more vids with this crews please?
It looks like there's a speed limit for ambulances?
ok can anyone tell me what the whirring/ticking noise is from at 4:10?
I know its from the lights, but what exactly causes it? It happens on my ambulance as well.
Ein wirklich interessantes Video!
And Peewee Herman always seems to be driving!😂🤣
Love the sound of the strobe's
I've found that "skipping" the siren is actually a nifty traffic mover myself. Only works if you've got a Whelen siren on board though, don't think the others can do that...not 100% sure though.
Nice sirens
The paramedic always seems to need a barf bag in these videos!😂
That station is really, really nice
5:25 this is why you don’t park in the fire lane
Nevermind playing with the electronic horn just stay on that siren at those intersections !!
This reminds me of when I had to go in a ambulance cuz I had allergic reaction
to be honest they look pretty young to be Paramedics...
buddy in my class was about 24? and a paramedic
no no but i mean they loo like there 18 or something like that
They are, but I think they are EMT's because their identifier is "ambulance" as opposed to "medic"
yes thats what i thought too
Well in my area (Upstate NY) ambulances are identified by their number, and prefixed with either an A (ALS) or B (BLS), so for example, A6159 would be an ALS ambulance. A vehicle identified as, say, Medic 51, would be an ALS fly car, and a vehicle identified as, say, Defib 63, would be a BLS fly car. I know it's different all over, but it's just unusual for me to hear an ambulance referred to as Medic.
0:19 is that wheelock fire alarm? (Forget model number) as the signaling tone?
Wonderful vehicle
very nice!!!!!!
they could tell them where the call is exactly since the cops are out of the substation in the center
Hope everyone at the scene was okay
1:37 jesus chirst man that radio sound is the most biger i even heared !
looks/sounds like a career fire station; the pager tones, then the fire alarm; the dispatcher's voice in the garage...................hmmm :D
Well done!
@theshortvideomaster1 No, not really too young. In PG county you get as much experience in a year as five or more years in other places. Age has nothing to do with maturity and expertise.
Ambulance 128 is an ALS unit, Ambulance 129 is a BLS unit
I've been on stuff that has been declared non emergency response you arrive and the pt is almost dead needless to say we upgraded to emergency in route to the hospital
very nice video I like it
Mach weiter so
Danke schön, ich versuchs ;-)
God. Was that the fire alarm?
GPS is an aid only. Learn to map read , in the city it's much easier. I was with SAMU in Paris all we used was maps
A to Z , after a period of time you pretty much know everywhere. Don't rely on GPS.
Is this vehicle retired
Did they ever find it??
is this a completely volunteer department? or they work paid on calls/full times?
+Amir H PGFD is made up of about 20 stations, some are combination volly/paid. This department here, college park, is volunteer.
+PJ Lochner that's explains why they're so young looking. What great people to dedicate their lives so young to saving others.
Where do yall go to the bathroom at? if your not at the station hospital ? all just stop anywhere yall want?
I notice here in Qatar if there is an ambulance approaching ..all vehicles giving a way..instantly to it...
It's funny that so many people are complaining about GPS but in 2010 who was using it? From what I remember we were using MapQuest for long trips
Is it just me or is it weird that just about every dispatcher over the radio sounds the same? 🤔
They often sound the same because they use a certain cadence when speaking so that the words that they use are better understood. They use vocal breaks a lot more to let the person on the other end understand and comprehend what is being said. That's why a dispatcher often sounds just a little bit like a cross between a person and a robot.
Without Sounds you have a very Bad Sound in the inside of the car hears like a Little Bird is twitching is this While the Lights Are on ?
It's the strobe lights, rotatators, strobes, and some LED lights make that noise.
Nice 👍👍👍
Super Video, dickes like!
Yeah Fed Sig PA-300's have wind downs so you can't do it, we have them on 3 of our rigs, the 4th has the Whelen, the wind down is cool in it's own way but not really handy.
apparently yall cant read..its clearly says fire department on the side of the truck
May I ask the US police and the fire radio frequency?
Every dept uses different frequencies, And 99% of the time they're trunked, and most police are encrypted.
Oh wow these calls are crazy
©M173627... The LED lights are on a high output sequencer and get syncronised bursts of power to make the lights brighter (strobe) they are very high powered in most ambulances
which country/state is this?
Great driving, which state is this in?
Marland
Maryland
College Park Maryland, they have a live inn program.
That's a british siren! Whelen cencom isn't it?
Super Trini Gamer Sounds like a TVP vivaro! Or an West yorks police corsa!
Holy shit, I'd have a hard freaking time finding addresses in this convoluted town of mine without a navigation device.
A volunteer BLS unit to a difficulty breathing call. Because that makes sense....
could a cop follow a ambulance on a call if the cop isnt on a call?
Over here in PA, at least in my area, if a police department isn't busy, they will follow FD and EMS and pull people over that don't yeild.
i can never find the siren.. anyone know what it is?
First40Years possibly a whelen, not sure
Tis a Whelen Alpha Series siren
There should be someone showing the ambulance where to go...
is that a code 3 V-CON
+zachary phillips Nowhere close, Whelen, looks to be a 295SL.
This is a volunteer fire department?
Lol the guy was like "he has tuberculosis" and the driver was like "trouble breathing" xD how do you get tuberculosis from trouble breathing lol that was funny
The code is TB and that is also the abbreviation for Tuberculosis
+Jamie Pugh
Nice video
The driver is a very good driver I have been valeteering life squad for the t.w.p I live in for 28 years and some times I have to drive and when I'm not driving I'm in the back of the life squad
medics look young dont they?Volley?
How long do firefighters/medics in the states spend in driving school? Not long I'm guessing?
How come you say not long? Is it because the driver in the video doesn't seem experienced? Jus wonderin
one hand on the wheel (loosely), cross over hand steering.....
^has one hand on the siren as well
Both hands should be on the wheel until you change siren then that hand should move back to the wheel
^True, I drove humvees in Iraq and if you were caught slacking with 1 hand in the wheel you'd be on poop burning duty
How old are these 2 kids? the look like high schoolers
what the driver turn on?
Nicey man:)
@xsantiago777 Just trouble breathing?. I have went to plenty of sob(trouble breathing) and the patients almost dead... I dont see how you can say SOB is not a code 3 response... Volenteer or not...
Are they even 18 years old
it's quite difficult to hear
I am an advanced care paramedic myself I love my job would never switch it for anything else
Why the hell are ambulances so big and slow in usa? I dont get it? They lose time, and every second counts.
TheHupe this is a very old unit just looking at the reflections plus it’s a volunteer personnel so they arnt as experienced
This video is 7 years old. If you look on this department's website, this ambulance has been replaced.
Are you college kids?
That sound Like the red elite ambulance and San Francisco fire chief responding
Sometimes the do sometimes they don't, depends on the call really.