I really think that volunteer/retained firefighters or other emergency service personnel should have some sort of emergency lighting on their personal vehicles to get them to the station quicker
This has been looked at many times. There isn't a huge need for this, as there's already the requirement to be within a certain distance while 'on call'. Saving a few minutes doesn't mean much when you're only as fast as the last person to arrive; if everyone is required to be there within ten minutes, why have the additional risk of individual response driving if someone still takes the ten minutes to get there? The cost of training everyone to be response drivers, keeping them trained, the additional vehicle equipment and insurance cover, all vastly outweighs the whole financial reason to have volunteer-crewed stations in the first place. Won't happen. The station officer has their response car, enabling them to get there first, unlock, start the engine, prepare the equipment and get briefed on the job. Everyone else trickles in and having another five response vehicles won't change much, other than the added risk of the actual driving.
Wont happen due to cost and because there will be loads of crashes o the wzhy to the station as folks get over excited. The guysbup my way just drive like lunatics anyway!!!!
I agree "HOWEVER"...... the two- tones and strobe lights are unfortunately available from unscrupulous sources and I truly mean unscrupulous, I have both heard and seen a wide variety of vehicles mainly your average boy racer 💩
One of the careers stations in my organisation were paged to their own station. Someone rang in smoke coming from their address. My station burned down after one of our trucks shorted a fuse and ignited.
I enjoy watching emergency response videos and read the description it was not in my native country, I didn't fully realize it though until the firetruck started driving on the wrong side of the road.
Truth, I'm just chuckling that we had more than a handful of aggressive field fires in standing crop this year alone that were a bear. I could only imagine Aussie brush fires.
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. Hell, here in California, that fire would be easily handled by a couple of Engines, a Brush Crew and one Helicopter.
@@k9spjack Why the huge outlay? Did you see "a couple of Engines, a Brush Crew and one Helicopter" in this? Countries that have 20x larger fires typically have 20x large emergency services to deal with it. This is Britain.
@@k9spjack Do to the climate in the UK wild fires are somewhat rare so the fire resources are not really aimed at that. No FD operates helicopters and i dont think the idea would ever seriously come about, as cool as it would be. Also i dont think there are any dedicated brush crews either. Just engines/rescue, ladders and the rare pick up truck for access in woodland and tackling real small fires.
For those who say it never stops raining in Wales... See. It regularly stops raining long enough to get grass fires. I just wish that kids had something better to do during the school holidays than go around starting fires.
Up here in scotland our station manager has a marked car with blues, and he only goes to the station if the car isnt needed (btw my local station is also retained)
Retained, the firefighters have a full time job most times and are (part time) in the fire service. The wording is sometimes Oncall. We respond from jobs or home via a pager system
@@matthewburrows2768 yeah most of the crew up here have their own business so they can just leave when the pager goes off but those that dont can get to the station within 5 mins
Simply people don’t pay attention to lights & sirens. We had an officer EOW last Tuesday lights on traffic vest and struck getting a piece of building material out of road. Few years ago I had an idiot run a traffic light and ended up hitting him, he didn’t notice my bumper he ended up getting pitted trying to get to lunch before change of prices.
Good thing they had almost three minutes to check that all the blue emergency lights were working. Lots of 'm on that engine, so you need a bit of time for a thorough inspection. Hope they all chipped in a helped each other.
@@joeplatt7688 Don't forget their also in the uniform all the time at the station in that show, they only have to grab their helmets and their ready to go.
Thankfully near the end of the video the fire seemed to be burning put a little bit ot didn't seem as bad pf a first as it looked at the start of the video but i know it could get bad again at any second. Anyways good job to every one of the volunteers in this video.🙂👍✌
Damn, it must be great when a "HUGE FIRE" in your area is a couple acre brush fire. Around here that's not unusual at all, with this sort of call usually being handled by one or two Type 6 brush truck before anybody else even arrives. Great job from these volunteers.
Same here. I was also confused because the burn scar was much larger than the actual fire. Made me wonder what the response time was with the ROS. Looks like the fire was burning itself out.
I have a lot of respect for the Retained Firefighters, who have to stop whatever they are doing to respond to a shout, and do everything that has to be done by the full-time firefighters. At least in this country, they have to be paid a retainer and also for call-outs, but in some countries, like New Zealand, the volunteers get no payment whatsoever. I noted some correspondence below regarding the volunteers having blue lights and sirens. My personal view on this is that it should be allowed. The distance to get to the fire station may not be very far, but traffic lights, road works and congestion can at times cause hold-ups which can further delay the engine response. High speed driving is not the idea, just avoidance of hold-ups. My next door neighbour, who was retained by the Essex service, told me that he wished that he had a siren on his car. ps. I am also grateful to the Heacham retained fire team for doing a lovely job washing my Chevy Dayvan (for the Benevolent Fund) during the station open day!
That’s good that volunteer firefighters in this country can use lights and sirens on their personal card to get quicker in the fire house, in our republic it is banned.
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I’ve lived in the US my whole life, I haven’t seen anyone drive like they have lights and sirens- besides people with lights and sirens. I feel like you’ve either been to a single US city, or you’ve seen other people comment on US driving. It’s a regional thing mostly, Illinois has shit drivers, literally north of them, Wisconsin, great drivers. Network, shit drivers, Maine, good drivers. You get the point
@@overlordgaming752 First off to stereotype drivers based upon the States they come from is just moronic. Get the point? Next, I have lived in more than one state (2) and spent a good amount of time in a few more.. On average I probably drive more miles in a month than you in a year, have spent 21 years as a Police Officer and 20 Years as a VOLUNTEER Fireman. So maybe you should get back to your imaginary video game driving before you comment on how people drive with or without lights and sirens.
@@HUBABUBA-il8fn okay moron. My father is a truck driver, has been for 32 years, I’m a volunteer fireman, which lends no experience to bad drivers, everyone drives stupid when your lights are on, you would know that if you were an officer. Congrats on living in two states, ive lived in 5. I can tell you for absolute fact people drive worse in certain regions compared to others, simply based on the conditions their use to driving in. For example, Illinois is typically a fair weather state. They also drive like their the only one on the roads. Wisconsin tends to be a shitter weather area, which lends itself to better drivers who react faster. They also drive like theirs other people on the road besides them. If you’ve ever been to new York, more over the actual city, then you would know they drive like it’s a fucking free for all in most places. You can stereotype based on location because of the vastly different locations we have in the United States. Congratulations on being an asshole though, there was no need to be hostile
@@overlordgaming752 Your Father being a truck driver doesn't make you one. Again stereotyping drivers based upon the state IS MORONIC. There are good and bad all over. As far as comparing weather conditions in certain areas, again that is a moot argument. Of course, if someone is used to "fair" weather" they will be a bad driver in snow as this is a condition they are not used to, just like someone used to driving in a very rural area now driving in mid-town Manhattan or the freeways in California. Age and experience have much more to do with good/bad driving habits than does the state you live in.
It makes not sense why the retained firefighters are not aloud use a blue light to get to the station for a call when are they are trained to drive to appliances under Blue lights
seeing how some volunteers here rush to the station at a faster and more reckless driving style than we'd ever drive with an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens I'm glad that they don't have lights and sirens on their private vehicles; Also no every volunteer is allowed to drive an emergency vehicle - luckily
I thought that hillside had a familiar look, coal mining refuse. I live in the Anthracite coal mining region of Pennsylvania in the US and we have plenty of hills like that. There’s the danger of a fire like that starting an underground coal mine or coal mining refuse fire which is extremely hard to extinguish. Google Centralia, PA for a good example where it was so bad they weren’t able to extinguish it and abandoned the town. Others took years of heavy equipment excavation and extinguishment costing millions of dollars. A small brush fire that could have large consequences.
I wonder who's the genius that put a station in a spot like that. So now the cold diesel engine's first challenge is to drag that tonnage up the steep hill without destroying itself.
Very few firefighters in the UK are volunteers most are full-time or part-time (retained) and are paid a retaining fee and payments to attend training and incidents.
Here in our village in Germany if the Volunteer Firefighters aren't already leaving at least with one out of three cars at three minutes point after been called there would be a very bad hiccup for them. We always use four cars when going to fight a fire. Two specialized Trucks and one Ladder plus one Ambulance. The Ambulance is manned 24/7/365 so they could leave immediately.
Just a question. In the Description, title, and on the Fire station. It says TonyPandy but at 0:01 if you look at that Police van. On the Hood it says Heddlu?
Our volunteers have ten minutes by law to arrive at the emergency place. That includes stop doing whatever you did, rushing to the station, change clothing, manning the vehicles and driving to the fire or whatever else happened.
@@danhanley1313 to them - nothing. But the city officials would have to rearrange the system. They would have to relocate the station or install an additional one. Or they would have to recruit more personnel.
When I was in the Norfolk Fire Service which is now changed to the Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service I was based at a 2 pump station I worked about 5 miles away from the station and lived about 6 miles away from the station and I was one of the appliance driver's . Going from work wasn't too bad because to get to the station I didn't have to drive through much of the town, but from home I had to drive through the town from one side of the other and all we were allowed to have was a sign we put on the inside of our windscreen with suckers to stick which read "Firefighter on Call" and obviously we put our normal headlights on and that was it but obviously we had to stick to the highway code and get to the station when we could sometimes during certain times it was hard to muster 2 crews. if people don't get out of your way which they don't have to when you are in your car you shouldn't worry about it..
I thought the standard for on-call crews to arrive at a station was a maximum 5 minutes which would be a travelling distance of about 1.5 miles radius. Travelling 5 to 6 miles must take 10 to 15 minutes. What this expected travelling time accepted for a turn out?
@@nevillemason6791 Hi yes it would be if it was a one pump station and the first pump was always on the road with in minutes of the call but seeing as I was at a two station on the Norfolk Suffolk border there was some leeway on travelling distances and times, although this may have changed now because I joined in 1987 and was in for 10years.
uhm that's not really a conversion ... wail and yelp sirens are used in many European countries for many years ... don't forget wail and yelp actually originally comes from Europe; While most European countries allow both wail/yelp and hi-lo sirens to be used, only few countries are limited to either only hi-lo sirens or only wail/yelp sirens
I'm not sure what's funnier. A town called Tonypandy or that bit of a grass fire being called a "huge wildfire". Given that this in the UK, I'm sure it'll start raining again in half an hour and put the fire out.
Q: How many guys is the minimum they need to roll out one engine? Is it a range? I.e 3 minimum but could take 5 if they were there on time? Q: What does a retained station do, if for whatever reason, the minimum number of officers cannot make themselves available? I.e stuck in a work meeting or something.
My volunteer station has a 5 seat engine, its allowed to roll with 1 on board if Noone else is responding or in a reasonable distance to the hall. We've got a cell phone based app that is linked to a TV at the hall that shows in real time who's coming and where they are.
Certainly in Scotland you need a minimum of 1 officer (or a FF who has had incident command training if no officer is available), a driver and two other BA qualified FFs, otherwise you’re not going out the door.
Here in NY State we have people join the volunteers just to run blue lights, which don't give them the right of way, only a courtesy light. They join and then show up with $500 bar light on the roof, and that's all they wanted, to look cool. Waste of time and bunker gear....
nah, it was going downhill, so wasnt moving that fast. Had the fire been moving uphill, it would've been preheating the fuel in front and it would have been going 2-4x the speed
@@dragonemergencyvideos looks like this could be a regular spot known for fires especially if my area is anything to go by it always seems to be the same area of mountain grassland either planned burn gone wrong or malicious
Is 4.5 minutes between the first arrival to the station and the fire engine leaving the station a good response time? Wouldn't it be better to go with a few guys and then others could take a second engine? Even if that's not how it's done in Wales, the fire seems big enough for all engines to go anyhow. (As we say here in America, I'm Monday-morning quarterbacking. I have no idea how these things work.)
![[Station Siren] East branch volunteer fire district going on a response in Upstate New York.](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/bRPaO2KPEOs/mqdefault.jpg)
![[Station Siren] East branch volunteer fire district going on a response in Upstate New York.](/img/tr.png)
I really think that volunteer/retained firefighters or other emergency service personnel should have some sort of emergency lighting on their personal vehicles to get them to the station quicker
Agreed.
This has been looked at many times. There isn't a huge need for this, as there's already the requirement to be within a certain distance while 'on call'. Saving a few minutes doesn't mean much when you're only as fast as the last person to arrive; if everyone is required to be there within ten minutes, why have the additional risk of individual response driving if someone still takes the ten minutes to get there?
The cost of training everyone to be response drivers, keeping them trained, the additional vehicle equipment and insurance cover, all vastly outweighs the whole financial reason to have volunteer-crewed stations in the first place. Won't happen.
The station officer has their response car, enabling them to get there first, unlock, start the engine, prepare the equipment and get briefed on the job. Everyone else trickles in and having another five response vehicles won't change much, other than the added risk of the actual driving.
Wont happen due to cost and because there will be loads of crashes o the wzhy to the station as folks get over excited. The guysbup my way just drive like lunatics anyway!!!!
I agree
Yeah agreed
what I love about this is that these volunteer firefighters are basically undercover heroes, like what you see in the movies...
I agree "HOWEVER"...... the two- tones and strobe lights are unfortunately available from unscrupulous sources and I truly mean unscrupulous, I have both heard and seen a wide variety of vehicles mainly your average boy racer 💩
They arrive as normal guys and leave as heroes 🧑🏼🚒
Absolutely 👍🚒💙
Like a hero....... but next door
Fire and Rescue volunteers are real heroes
Risking their lives to help others risking their lives, the circle of life baby!
@@basicallystupid7080 they are real humans who help others meanwhile u would be sitting ur asses off while drinking tea
SO 🐣
Well they didn’t need to look on the map to find the location - I wonder if in on the turnout printout it said - Address = fire station backyard
One of the careers stations in my organisation were paged to their own station. Someone rang in smoke coming from their address.
My station burned down after one of our trucks shorted a fuse and ignited.
@@stevetuohy5629 ouch
@@stevetuohy5629 Ouch imagine responding to a call. Fire station on fire
On leaving the fire station take the first right and travel 100 yards and take the next right and you should be on the fire ground.
@@beccabush1252 And the neighbouring brigade caught fire recently when a radio battery being charged received a surge of power from a lightning strike
Right in their backyard! Heck this a popular video. 😎
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You see a giant fire behind you "at least it's not m.... Pager: bitch you better get MOVING
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so strange seeing my local station on the internet!
Good lads. Keeping the community safe.
Great video, so cool seeing them responding they are the reason those people can keep walking , going about their days
I can't help but think if Fireman Sam just let Norman have one day without being rescued, the number of shouts in that place would halve within hours.
Very true😂
Why was my first thought Fireman Sam when I head TonyPandy
Fireman sam is made of two places Pontypridd and tonypandy
Same
@@SPOOKYGAMER really
I love how the description says the fire is probably start by Norman Price. 🤣
Yeah hahahahahhaa
That Norman Price is a one boy disaster area
iggle piggles my idol you fucking legend
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NOOOORRRRMMMMMAAAANNNN.
I enjoy watching emergency response videos and read the description it was not in my native country, I didn't fully realize it though until the firetruck started driving on the wrong side of the road.
“Huge fire” (Australian fire fighter chuckles) haha
Haha so true lol
One of them could have went up and pissed the fire out.
We are talking Wales here. Where the coal had to keep below ground to keep it dry enough to burn.
We would have put it out with a bucket of water and a mop p.s I've done it
Truth, I'm just chuckling that we had more than a handful of aggressive field fires in standing crop this year alone that were a bear. I could only imagine Aussie brush fires.
Here in California "Huge Fire" has a slightly different meaning.
But I enjoyed your video, and those are very nice engines.
Thanks for watching
Same here in Australia
LOL, I was thinking the same thing. Hell, here in California, that fire would be easily handled by a couple of Engines, a Brush Crew and one Helicopter.
@@k9spjack Why the huge outlay? Did you see "a couple of Engines, a Brush Crew and one Helicopter" in this?
Countries that have 20x larger fires typically have 20x large emergency services to deal with it. This is Britain.
@@k9spjack Do to the climate in the UK wild fires are somewhat rare so the fire resources are not really aimed at that. No FD operates helicopters and i dont think the idea would ever seriously come about, as cool as it would be. Also i dont think there are any dedicated brush crews either. Just engines/rescue, ladders and the rare pick up truck for access in woodland and tackling real small fires.
Tonypandy? So this is the place where the director of fireman Sam lives (pondypandy)
Haha yeah this is where fireman Sam was based off 🤣
@@dragonemergencyvideos it’s based off of tonypandy and pontypritt both in Wales
Even the volunteers’ equipment look better than other country’s professionals....... good film
Tondypandy?
*HE’S ALWAYS ON THE SCENE, FIREMAN SAM AND HIS ENGINES QUITE CLEAN, FIREMAN SAM, YOU CAN TELL FOR SURE, SAM IS THE HERO NEXT DOOR!*
Lol
had to subscribe....... the sirens give me a tingly feeling everytime......the emergency services do such an amazing job.
Thanks for watching, always appreciated
Took me a minute to get the Norman joke well played
Haha thanks 😂😉
It went over my head, is it a Welsh thing?
@@tomohawk5567 Firefighter Sam
i live around that area and the fire was absolutely terrible it was loads of forest fires around the rhondda during lockdown
For those who say it never stops raining in Wales...
See. It regularly stops raining long enough to get grass fires. I just wish that kids had something better to do during the school holidays than go around starting fires.
Norman Price has a lot to answer for
@@youking4861 Sadly that's kids of today they get away with what they want we can't punish them if we did the law would jump all over us,
"NOOOOOORMAN!" (Do it in Dilys' voice) Also, wonder where Norman is...
I’d say someone watches too much fireman Sam lol jk
Should have bought a Welsh telly
😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 childhood memories
In the pub
Up here in scotland our station manager has a marked car with blues, and he only goes to the station if the car isnt needed (btw my local station is also retained)
What does retained mean
Retained, the firefighters have a full time job most times and are (part time) in the fire service. The wording is sometimes Oncall.
We respond from jobs or home via a pager system
@@matthewburrows2768 yeah most of the crew up here have their own business so they can just leave when the pager goes off but those that dont can get to the station within 5 mins
@@matthewburrows2768 thanks!
I'm in Scotland and my local station manager drives an unmarked estate car with the blue light fitted to the roof.
That feeling when you arrive and the engines rolling. And you think, I can't get here any faster.
For that very reason, I have all my gear in my car so I can go straight to the location.
I love Station Officer Steeles car.
Hehe same
OH, MY SHOP!!!! NORMAN!!! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!?!
Fireman Sam theme starts (the good old one that is, not the new one)
Simply people don’t pay attention to lights & sirens. We had an officer EOW last Tuesday lights on traffic vest and struck getting a piece of building material out of road. Few years ago I had an idiot run a traffic light and ended up hitting him, he didn’t notice my bumper he ended up getting pitted trying to get to lunch before change of prices.
Excellent reportage! Very well done!
When are you releasing the footage of the huge fire?
Nice Catch. Fire is Close to the station. Must’ve been a quick response.
Started by Norman price lmao nice reference
Good thing they had almost three minutes to check that all the blue emergency lights were working. Lots of 'm on that engine, so you need a bit of time for a thorough inspection. Hope they all chipped in a helped each other.
I like the little reference about Norman Price because the location of Pontypandy is based on the town Tonypandy If I'm correct.
Correct 👍
Awesome video. Looks like a bad fire. I love the Fireman Sam reference in the description. Fire probably started by Norman Price. 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
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Jupiter 999 would have got there faster. With Elvis and Sam on board
Don’t forget penny
@@evie0613 sorry I forgot
Well of course! They're out in 7 seconds flat!
@@joeplatt7688 Don't forget their also in the uniform all the time at the station in that show, they only have to grab their helmets and their ready to go.
Putting on his coat and hat, in less than seven seconds flat.
Seeing "HEDDLU POLICE" on cars in TV shows, I had to google where "Heddlu" was. Doh!
😂😂😂
Thankfully near the end of the video the fire seemed to be burning put a little bit ot didn't seem as bad pf a first as it looked at the start of the video but i know it could get bad again at any second. Anyways good job to every one of the volunteers in this video.🙂👍✌
Damn, it must be great when a "HUGE FIRE" in your area is a couple acre brush fire. Around here that's not unusual at all, with this sort of call usually being handled by one or two Type 6 brush truck before anybody else even arrives. Great job from these volunteers.
Same here. I was also confused because the burn scar was much larger than the actual fire. Made me wonder what the response time was with the ROS. Looks like the fire was burning itself out.
This was one of 6 fires burning that day
I have a lot of respect for the Retained Firefighters, who have to stop whatever they are doing to respond to a shout, and do everything that has to be done by the full-time firefighters.
At least in this country, they have to be paid a retainer and also for call-outs, but in some countries, like New Zealand, the volunteers get no payment whatsoever.
I noted some correspondence below regarding the volunteers having blue lights and sirens. My personal view on this is that it should be allowed. The distance to get to the fire station may not be very far, but traffic lights, road works and congestion can at times cause hold-ups which can further delay the engine response. High speed driving is not the idea, just avoidance of hold-ups. My next door neighbour, who was retained by the Essex service, told me that he wished that he had a siren on his car.
ps. I am also grateful to the Heacham retained fire team for doing a lovely job washing my Chevy Dayvan (for the Benevolent Fund) during the station open day!
That’s good that volunteer firefighters in this country can use lights and sirens on their personal card to get quicker in the fire house, in our republic it is banned.
You can tell this guy has seen fireman Sam many times
😂
Is a station officers car in a situation such as this ie an unmarked their own vehicle but using maglights etc?
Correct
Amazing video!! Such a big fire😲😲
That is the longest delay time ive ever seen
Their coming from home or work, so never going to be the fastest turnout
Point exactly
Why are the lights on for several minutes while the truck is still in the garage?
Just getting everything ready so they can go soon as the crew arrives
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nice video. very special you also see the fire same with the station respond.
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Cops and Firemen in Wales respond just like they drive in the US.
I’ve lived in the US my whole life, I haven’t seen anyone drive like they have lights and sirens- besides people with lights and sirens. I feel like you’ve either been to a single US city, or you’ve seen other people comment on US driving.
It’s a regional thing mostly, Illinois has shit drivers, literally north of them, Wisconsin, great drivers. Network, shit drivers, Maine, good drivers. You get the point
@@overlordgaming752 First off to stereotype drivers based upon the States they come from is just moronic. Get the point? Next, I have lived in more than one state (2) and spent a good amount of time in a few more.. On average I probably drive more miles in a month than you in a year, have spent 21 years as a Police Officer and 20 Years as a VOLUNTEER Fireman. So maybe you should get back to your imaginary video game driving before you comment on how people drive with or without lights and sirens.
@@HUBABUBA-il8fn okay moron. My father is a truck driver, has been for 32 years, I’m a volunteer fireman, which lends no experience to bad drivers, everyone drives stupid when your lights are on, you would know that if you were an officer. Congrats on living in two states, ive lived in 5. I can tell you for absolute fact people drive worse in certain regions compared to others, simply based on the conditions their use to driving in. For example, Illinois is typically a fair weather state. They also drive like their the only one on the roads. Wisconsin tends to be a shitter weather area, which lends itself to better drivers who react faster. They also drive like theirs other people on the road besides them. If you’ve ever been to new York, more over the actual city, then you would know they drive like it’s a fucking free for all in most places. You can stereotype based on location because of the vastly different locations we have in the United States. Congratulations on being an asshole though, there was no need to be hostile
@@overlordgaming752 Your Father being a truck driver doesn't make you one. Again stereotyping drivers based upon the state IS MORONIC. There are good and bad all over. As far as comparing weather conditions in certain areas, again that is a moot argument. Of course, if someone is used to "fair" weather" they will be a bad driver in snow as this is a condition they are not used to, just like someone used to driving in a very rural area now driving in mid-town Manhattan or the freeways in California. Age and experience have much more to do with good/bad driving habits than does the state you live in.
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I hadn't even looked in the describtion, I just saw the spelling on the signs and on the Ambulance and just thought ''This gotta be in Wales'' 😂
It makes not sense why the retained firefighters are not aloud use a blue light to get to the station for a call when are they are trained to drive to appliances under Blue lights
Yes that bit is ridiculous
seeing how some volunteers here rush to the station at a faster and more reckless driving style than we'd ever drive with an emergency vehicle with lights and sirens I'm glad that they don't have lights and sirens on their private vehicles; Also no every volunteer is allowed to drive an emergency vehicle - luckily
When you said Tonypandy I was like..
FIREMAN SAM?
Haha well this is where fireman Sam was based off
I thought that hillside had a familiar look, coal mining refuse. I live in the Anthracite coal mining region of Pennsylvania in the US and we have plenty of hills like that. There’s the danger of a fire like that starting an underground coal mine or coal mining refuse fire which is extremely hard to extinguish. Google Centralia, PA for a good example where it was so bad they weren’t able to extinguish it and abandoned the town. Others took years of heavy equipment excavation and extinguishment costing millions of dollars. A small brush fire that could have large consequences.
Yes you are right . This area of South Wales in the UK had many coal mines , all closed now and the coal waste was dumped and made into hills .
I wonder who's the genius that put a station in a spot like that. So now the cold diesel engine's first challenge is to drag that tonnage up the steep hill without destroying itself.
At local volunteer fire department one or two usually get trucks. Rest usually respond to location of fire in personal vehicles
Very few firefighters in the UK are volunteers most are full-time or part-time (retained) and are paid a retaining fee and payments to attend training and incidents.
Awesome video and great vehicles!
Thanks!!
Nice catch. Greetings from Germany
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"(Prob started by Norman Price)" lol, I used to watch Fireman Sam
Here in our village in Germany if the Volunteer Firefighters aren't already leaving at least with one out of three cars at three minutes point after been called there would be a very bad hiccup for them. We always use four cars when going to fight a fire. Two specialized Trucks and one Ladder plus one Ambulance. The Ambulance is manned 24/7/365 so they could leave immediately.
Just a question. In the Description, title, and on the Fire station. It says TonyPandy but at 0:01 if you look at that Police van. On the Hood it says Heddlu?
Heddlu is Welsh for Police
@@dragonemergencyvideos Oh. Thank you know i know
Many of the emergency vehicles look top-heavy.
Our volunteers have ten minutes by law to arrive at the emergency place. That includes stop doing whatever you did, rushing to the station, change clothing, manning the vehicles and driving to the fire or whatever else happened.
what happens to them after 10 minutes of they don't do all that?
@@danhanley1313 to them - nothing. But the city officials would have to rearrange the system. They would have to relocate the station or install an additional one. Or they would have to recruit more personnel.
@@juliaclaire42 thanks 👍🏻
Here it's 4 minutes
Has the Bush on that mountain grown back enough for a repeat fire this year? 🔥
Great catches
What a brilliant throwback to fireman sam 🤣👍🏾
My first thought was fireman Sam 🤣🤣
Great filming!
Thanks!
The siren on the black Peugeot sounds like California Highway Patrol sirens.
It does 😂
Hey look it's my firehouse from Cities Skylines.
When I was in the Norfolk Fire Service which is now changed to the Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service I was based at a 2 pump station I worked about 5 miles away from the station and lived about 6 miles away from the station and I was one of the appliance driver's . Going from work wasn't too bad because to get to the station I didn't have to drive through much of the town, but from home I had to drive through the town from one side of the other and all we were allowed to have was a sign we put on the inside of our windscreen with suckers to stick which read "Firefighter on Call" and obviously we put our normal headlights on and that was it but obviously we had to stick to the highway code and get to the station when we could sometimes during certain times it was hard to muster 2 crews. if people don't get out of your way which they don't have to when you are in your car you shouldn't worry about it..
I thought the standard for on-call crews to arrive at a station was a maximum 5 minutes which would be a travelling distance of about 1.5 miles radius. Travelling 5 to 6 miles must take 10 to 15 minutes. What this expected travelling time accepted for a turn out?
@@nevillemason6791 Hi yes it would be if it was a one pump station and the first pump was always on the road with in minutes of the call but seeing as I was at a two station on the Norfolk Suffolk border there was some leeway on travelling distances and times, although this may have changed now because I joined in 1987 and was in for 10years.
Snow is going to be on the ground before they get the first engine out..
Funding should be in place so that all firer fighters are actually stationed at the station this will speed up responce times much quicker
They do have a full time crew aswell
Great catch .
Fire should put itself out. They ain’t gonna be there anytime soon
Awesome vid😊
I’ve noticed more European emergency vehicles have American sirens, is this a siren conversion thing that’s gonna stay or just a little experiment?
uhm that's not really a conversion ... wail and yelp sirens are used in many European countries for many years ... don't forget wail and yelp actually originally comes from Europe; While most European countries allow both wail/yelp and hi-lo sirens to be used, only few countries are limited to either only hi-lo sirens or only wail/yelp sirens
The fire is gonna keep spreading if they don’t hurry up Oh my god lmao!
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that was a lot of police responding to a brush fire
Never seen such a slow response
their retained so coming from home
SO 🏊♀️
Wonderful Video!🙂👍
Thanks for watching mate
I'm not sure what's funnier. A town called Tonypandy or that bit of a grass fire being called a "huge wildfire". Given that this in the UK, I'm sure it'll start raining again in half an hour and put the fire out.
the fire spread across the entire hill and was going on for more than 12 hours ...
Q: How many guys is the minimum they need to roll out one engine? Is it a range? I.e 3 minimum but could take 5 if they were there on time?
Q: What does a retained station do, if for whatever reason, the minimum number of officers cannot make themselves available? I.e stuck in a work meeting or something.
Minimum is 4. Without 4 they cannot respond
My volunteer station has a 5 seat engine, its allowed to roll with 1 on board if Noone else is responding or in a reasonable distance to the hall. We've got a cell phone based app that is linked to a TV at the hall that shows in real time who's coming and where they are.
Certainly in Scotland you need a minimum of 1 officer (or a FF who has had incident command training if no officer is available), a driver and two other BA qualified FFs, otherwise you’re not going out the door.
OMG I REMEMBER THIS FIRE
I was just sitting in my own kitchen and watching all the helicopters going over there
In canada wildcard fires are measured in 1000s of hectares not feet.
Here in NY State we have people join the volunteers just to run blue lights, which don't give them the right of way, only a courtesy light. They join and then show up with $500 bar light on the roof, and that's all they wanted, to look cool. Waste of time and bunker gear....
Great video! Btw, what is your camera? Thanks in advance.
Thanks for watching, Sony ax53
Pontypandy yep Norman price started it lol
In another 10mins and that fire have burnt the station down 😂
nah, it was going downhill, so wasnt moving that fast. Had the fire been moving uphill, it would've been preheating the fuel in front and it would have been going 2-4x the speed
They could have saved all that bother if one of them just went up and pissed that fire out.
Great vid mate I swear there has been a fire there before which you posted 👍🏻
Yeah thinking the same.
Cheers, yeah same day this was
@@dragonemergencyvideos looks like this could be a regular spot known for fires especially if my area is anything to go by it always seems to be the same area of mountain grassland either planned burn gone wrong or malicious
Is 4.5 minutes between the first arrival to the station and the fire engine leaving the station a good response time? Wouldn't it be better to go with a few guys and then others could take a second engine? Even if that's not how it's done in Wales, the fire seems big enough for all engines to go anyhow. (As we say here in America, I'm Monday-morning quarterbacking. I have no idea how these things work.)
Only 1 fire appliance at that station. The wholetime one was already there. Also pls minimum of 4 Firefighters is needed
Oh dear norman had another party i see
Haha yep 🤣
I get it, their emergency vehicles are Mercedes so they don't pay the workers because there's no money left.
Mercedes isn't really concidered as luxury vehicle in the commercial vehicle business
How do you know when there being paged?
I don't I was passing the station when the wholetime pump went out so I waited for the retained to turn in
@@dragonemergencyvideos oh ok thanks
Dang man what's takin yall so long to leave the building
For some reason I was expecting the Q to be different by saying "get out of the chap... jolly good. You too you bloody wanker!!"