The sirene is known as Martins-Horn and consists of two alternating tones. The pitch has no meaning, any pair of tones between 360 and 630 Hertz will do. A 4 tone interval is mandatory.
As far as i know, those 2 alternating tones have their meaning. One is mainly used in Towns, where there are a lot of buildings, the other one for the HIghways etc.
@@Olaf-Lingen2023 - you are not 100% correct - one sirene ist for the city and one for country --with the country siren the sound waves go further than with the one for the city (that's what I think I heard once)
Do not forget the company-owned Firedepartments (Betriebsfeuerwehren). Osnabrueck for example (Some Vehcles from the regular FD are in the Video by the way), has 3 "Betriebsfeuerwehren", as there are 3 major companies, whom have the need for them (Steel Manufacturer, Specialized Paperproduction, where there are used chemicals etc.).
@@sru268 according to you 93% of our fire departments are terrible quality then They get the exact same training as "professional" employed fire fighters (Berufsfeuerwehr) minus the paramedic training.
The Diffrent tone are a result of many diffrent systems Used for sirens. The biggest diffrence is in electric and pneumatic horns. On the smaller vehicles most of the time you only have electric Horns, so just really loud speakers. For the e-horns there are two settings, one for "country" and one for "city" they sound diffrent aswell. The Trucks use the pnematic horns like the bull horn in the US. The word "Feuerwehr" means Fire department, followed by the phone number 112 wich is the emergency numbe for Fire & Rescue. The Police has 110. If u see several Vehicles driving behind one a nother its a "Löschzug" simmilar to a Fire Company in the US. The first vehicle is the "Einsatzleitung" most of the time, Thats the incedent Commander. Most of the Vehicle u`ve seen are regular vehicles wich you can find in almos every department. There are also many specialised vehicles for very rare incedents, they often only come out if shit hits the fan. Hope this helped :)
Hi, i´m a volunteer firefighter in germany and we have a lot of diverent typs of vehicles like: HLF, LF, TLF, DLK, ELW, U-LF, GW- Logistik, MTW, .... and depending on the region, they have other names like in Brandenburg HLF but in Berlin LHF
The number of units sent does depend on what the incident is. If the despatch is unsure they will sent more then needed as it better to send and not needed then not to send and its needed
In europe we have multiple trucks, some are combined with alot of gear with little watter, some only cary water and little gear, almost every truck has ladder on top, and there we have ladder trucks, when there is structure fire usually there goes gear truck with about 6/8crew , water truck 2crew,ladder truck 2 crew or even more units depends on the call
There is a pre-defined amount of specific vehicles with according personnel to respond to different kinds of incidents or reports. Example: I'll keep it short. If my local hospital's fire detection system goes off, we are sent out with one ladder truck, one firetruck, and a sort of command vehicle. Simultaneously one of the volunteer fire departments is also dispatched, meaning that men of that township, wherever they are, are alerted on their pager that an incident has occurred. They then immediately make their way to the firehouse and are allowed to violate normal traffic rules in the name of the mission (with discretion of course). That fire department will dispatch the same vehicles, because it has been deemed, somewhere in some bureau of the fire department that that is the necessary amount of resources to initially respond if there ever was a real incident. Some surrounding fire departments don't have a ladder truck. If they have a house fire, they need a ladder truck. We would then dispatch ours to them automatically.
8:34 This clears up a few questions: it's a real fire department, there's nothing acting. You can watch the series Feuer und Flamme, it's very interesting and it's available on RUclips with English subtitles (Season 6 is recommended)
"Feuerwehr" means "fire department" There are the normal Trucks wich are called "Hilfsleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug" (short: HLF) or translated "Fire engine with equipment for technical rescue" Those are usually responding to all kinds of emergencys like car crashs, fires, etc. If they're not enough then there are "Drehleiter"-vehicles responding to. Translated it means "vehicle with an extendable ladder and platform". These platforms can usually extend up to 32m (105 ft). If the emergency is bigger then "Einsatzleitwagen" (translation: command vehicle) are responding to coordinate the actions of the firefighters. If to HLF a "Drehleiter" and a command vehicle are responding, then it is called a "Löschzug" or firefighting train/constellation. A Löschzug is a standart formation and it is responding for example to smaller housfires. There are lots of other special vehicles too but it would take to long to explain them. The 112 is the emergency number for fire department, ambulance and water rescue. The 110 is the emergency number for the police
In Germany (and other parts of Europe) there are 2 emergency numbers: 110=police, 112=medical/fire emergency. But if you dial the wrong number it's not an issue... they do communicate with each other
Some ambulance trucks (which often come here with the fire trucks) have 2 different sirens. One is for less traffic and not very loud, the other one is for heavy traffic and extremely loud. The second I mentioned is needed, when you they see like 20 to 30 cars in front of them, so even the very first car, will hear them coming and make them know, there's an emergency somewhere and you must pull over.
Many engineers (drivers) will only use the sirens at intersections or elsewhere, where it makes sense. On other occasions, like just earlier for me haha, it's rush hour and the streets are full, so the engineer blasted the sirens all the way till we got to the call.
And The firefighters Use their sirens only when there is Traffic on the streets when the streets where lonly they won‘t use it to Not enoy the people who lives around
The neat thing about German (and most probably, all European) sirens is the Doppler effect. If a first-responder vehicle passes you - the pitch changes. This makes it a lot easier to estimate where they come from - and where they go to.
There was actually many real old Fire Trucks i am from germany And the new ones Look much better thek the old ones could you please react onetimes on the new ones too? Then you have to Write „Feuerwehr Einsatzfahrten 2024“ in the searching line thank you😊
If you see a VAN-like Car, (or a Car, depends where in Germany, some even have "Brandmeister" or "Einsatzleitung" written on it) this is special. It means this Station has a special Coordinator (for serval People, in Germany we do it the mil-way, so if you have to coordinate 60+ People and so on you get a Commander, "Brandmeister"). They are called in in serve Emergencies and have "Uplinks" and can shut down Districs/Streets (Gas, Power) and order other Emergency Units (THW, in serious Cases even the Army) into Actions. They are the first "on site" and have to analyse the Situation. For "normal Accidents" no Brandmeister is called into action (as a Brandmeister) even they are also normal Firefighters. You have special Training to become a Brandmeister ("A grandmaster of Firefighting", lousy translation but this is not a normal "Job").
the tones from the siren are in germany every the same the only difference is if they use the E-Horn (electric-siren) (higher pitch) or the airpressure-siren (lower pitch). The driver has also a foot switch for the siren
Be aware that the light patterns are not changing in the videos. But some of the vhicles are older (and equipped with Xenon lights) and cannot be seen by the camera correctly. Which results in an irregular flash pattern.
The most common vehicle is called TLF - Tank-Lösch-Fahrzeug - lit. tank-extinguishing vehicle. It's basically the fire-fighting Swiss Army-knife: It carries a bunch of guys, a bit of water (~1500 liters/~400gal), some short portable ladders (~6 meters/20ft) and all sorts of gear. Quite similar looking is the tanker truck - which carries a lot more water but lacks the rear passenger compartment. Often, they come with 3 instead of just 2 axles. In general - configuration varies a lot due to different tasks. Some fire brigades work only in the city - others work in rural places, too. For the latter - AWD is helpful. If only used in a city, RWD is sufficient. This saves cost - and a bit of weight which can be used for other things like water or gear. For special, rarely used gear like hazmat or extra foam (for very big fires) the roll-off container truck does the job. For real offroading (bush fires), Unimogs are very useful. But they are a topic on their own.
The Swiss pocket knife of Firefighting vehicles is not just any TLF, but the TLF 16/25 after the DIN from 2000-2004, especially the ones with Group cabin and a Rescue kit for traffic accidents. TLF16/25 (Gr.-H) Personal of 9 Firefighters Rescue Kit for medium technical rescue minimum 2400 Liters of Water in tank 4-part plug-in ladder I love this Vehicle. Anyways, the standard Firefighting Vehicles are Löschgruppenfahrzeuge (LF), they have less water than a TLF and carry more personal than a standard TLF.
One big difference between European and US fire fighting: In the US it's standard policy to evacuate first. After that - the fire is fought. Here in Europe - it's usually the same way. But many old houses have only one staircase - and therefore, only one escape route. Fire exits aren't as common. Then - evacuation and actually firefighting has to be done simultanously. Which is also why it's so vital for firefighters to be so quick at the scene and attack directly. Other than in the US, many houses are very close to each other. Therefore - fire fighting is a lot more urgent to save other buildings from damage.
@@EnjoyFirefightingIn older appartment buildings? Certainly not. The house I live in is from 1981. 12 appartments, 17 people, 3 stories high. One central stairway - no emergency exit. And there are many, many buildings like it around.
@@stanislavczebinski994 so ... based on your apartment building, you speak for apartment buildings all across Europe? That's interesting. Also only one staircase doesn't automatically mean that there's only one escape route
There is a greater variety of vehicles in Europe and Germany. There are more companies involved than in the us. Instead of the whole truck being built by one company, there is one that makes the truck and another that fits the truck will all the things that make it a firetruck instead of a regular truck. The vehicles themselves are also more task-specific than in the us. While it may seem complicated from the outside, it makes a lot of sense and it is not that hard to learn the difference between certain vehicles and what they do.
So the diferennt to one with the bigger Ladder is the Drehleiter mit Korb and the Other ones are mostly like engines like the Löschfahrzeug and Hilfeleistungslöschfahrzeug
oh come on, at least use the correct thumbnail belonging to that video. You used the thumbnail from my German fire trucks video and then showed and reacted to the German fire truck video of another user
for drivers it is forbidden to use the siren near the fire station. If the fire station is located in a busy area, the ban to use the siren near the station is suspended.
In wich City is that a Rule? Never heared of that. It's more like an inofficial rule for most machinist to just use the emergency sirens when it's necessary to ease the ears of the residents and pedestrians, who just enjoy their peaceful quite noon. If we go by most county laws for Firedepartments, all ermergency trips are only legal if the emergency horn and blue lights are used in combination.
The sirene is known as Martins-Horn and consists of two alternating tones. The pitch has no meaning, any pair of tones between 360 and 630 Hertz will do. A 4 tone interval is mandatory.
As far as i know, those 2 alternating tones have their meaning. One is mainly used in Towns, where there are a lot of buildings, the other one for the HIghways etc.
@@Olaf-Lingen2023 - you are not 100% correct - one sirene ist for the city and one for country --with the country siren the sound waves go further than with the one for the city (that's what I think I heard once)
To be really nit-picky - it's called Martin-Horn - Martin is the company making the sirens.
Martin Horn bitte der Erfinder dieser Tonfolge hieß Martin Horn
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Freiwillige Feuerwehr means volunteer fire department. The vast majority of fire departments in Germany and Austria are volunteers.
Do not forget the company-owned Firedepartments (Betriebsfeuerwehren). Osnabrueck for example (Some Vehcles from the regular FD are in the Video by the way), has 3 "Betriebsfeuerwehren", as there are 3 major companies, whom have the need for them (Steel Manufacturer, Specialized Paperproduction, where there are used chemicals etc.).
Freiwillige Feuerwehr means terrible Quality
@@sru268 according to you 93% of our fire departments are terrible quality then
They get the exact same training as "professional" employed fire fighters (Berufsfeuerwehr) minus the paramedic training.
But some volonter firefighters are paramedics too !@@TheMiningLeon
@@dalegofan Yeah, but employed ones get it along their basic training, while volunteers don't, they do that separately
The Diffrent tone are a result of many diffrent systems Used for sirens. The biggest diffrence is in electric and pneumatic horns. On the smaller vehicles most of the time you only have electric Horns, so just really loud speakers. For the e-horns there are two settings, one for "country" and one for "city" they sound diffrent aswell. The Trucks use the pnematic horns like the bull horn in the US.
The word "Feuerwehr" means Fire department, followed by the phone number 112 wich is the emergency numbe for Fire & Rescue. The Police has 110.
If u see several Vehicles driving behind one a nother its a "Löschzug" simmilar to a Fire Company in the US. The first vehicle is the "Einsatzleitung" most of the time,
Thats the incedent Commander.
Most of the Vehicle u`ve seen are regular vehicles wich you can find in almos every department. There are also many specialised vehicles for very rare incedents, they often only come out if shit hits the fan.
Hope this helped :)
Hi, i´m a volunteer firefighter in germany and we have a lot of diverent typs of vehicles like: HLF, LF, TLF, DLK, ELW, U-LF, GW- Logistik, MTW, .... and depending on the region, they have other names like in Brandenburg HLF but in Berlin LHF
Danke für euren Einsatz! Grüße aus Hannover.
The number of units sent does depend on what the incident is. If the despatch is unsure they will sent more then needed as it better to send and not needed then not to send and its needed
In europe we have multiple trucks, some are combined with alot of gear with little watter, some only cary water and little gear, almost every truck has ladder on top, and there we have ladder trucks, when there is structure fire usually there goes gear truck with about 6/8crew , water truck 2crew,ladder truck 2 crew or even more units depends on the call
There is a pre-defined amount of specific vehicles with according personnel to respond to different kinds of incidents or reports.
Example:
I'll keep it short.
If my local hospital's fire detection system goes off, we are sent out with one ladder truck, one firetruck, and a sort of command vehicle. Simultaneously one of the volunteer fire departments is also dispatched, meaning that men of that township, wherever they are, are alerted on their pager that an incident has occurred. They then immediately make their way to the firehouse and are allowed to violate normal traffic rules in the name of the mission (with discretion of course). That fire department will dispatch the same vehicles, because it has been deemed, somewhere in some bureau of the fire department that that is the necessary amount of resources to initially respond if there ever was a real incident.
Some surrounding fire departments don't have a ladder truck. If they have a house fire, they need a ladder truck. We would then dispatch ours to them automatically.
8:34 This clears up a few questions: it's a real fire department, there's nothing acting. You can watch the series Feuer und Flamme, it's very interesting and it's available on RUclips with English subtitles (Season 6 is recommended)
"Feuerwehr" means "fire department"
There are the normal Trucks wich are called "Hilfsleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeug" (short: HLF) or translated "Fire engine with equipment for technical rescue" Those are usually responding to all kinds of emergencys like car crashs, fires, etc. If they're not enough then there are "Drehleiter"-vehicles responding to. Translated it means "vehicle with an extendable ladder and platform". These platforms can usually extend up to 32m (105 ft). If the emergency is bigger then "Einsatzleitwagen" (translation: command vehicle) are responding to coordinate the actions of the firefighters. If to HLF a "Drehleiter" and a command vehicle are responding, then it is called a "Löschzug" or firefighting train/constellation. A Löschzug is a standart formation and it is responding for example to smaller housfires. There are lots of other special vehicles too but it would take to long to explain them.
The 112 is the emergency number for fire department, ambulance and water rescue. The 110 is the emergency number for the police
In Germany (and other parts of Europe) there are 2 emergency numbers: 110=police, 112=medical/fire emergency. But if you dial the wrong number it's not an issue... they do communicate with each other
in parts of Europe there are separate numbers for Fire, EMS and Police ... like e.g. 110 for Fire, 112 for Police, 113 for EMS
German sirene is next level, it’s so loud, after that you usually hear nothing
Some ambulance trucks (which often come here with the fire trucks) have 2 different sirens. One is for less traffic and not very loud, the other one is for heavy traffic and extremely loud.
The second I mentioned is needed, when you they see like 20 to 30 cars in front of them, so even the very first car, will hear them coming and make them know, there's an emergency somewhere and you must pull over.
Many engineers (drivers) will only use the sirens at intersections or elsewhere, where it makes sense. On other occasions, like just earlier for me haha, it's rush hour and the streets are full, so the engineer blasted the sirens all the way till we got to the call.
And The firefighters Use their sirens only when there is Traffic on the streets when the streets where lonly they won‘t use it to Not enoy the people who lives around
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The neat thing about German (and most probably, all European) sirens is the Doppler effect.
If a first-responder vehicle passes you - the pitch changes. This makes it a lot easier to estimate where they come from - and where they go to.
There was actually many real old Fire Trucks i am from germany And the new ones Look much better thek the old ones could you please react onetimes on the new ones too? Then you have to Write „Feuerwehr Einsatzfahrten 2024“ in the searching line thank you😊
If you see a VAN-like Car, (or a Car, depends where in Germany, some even have "Brandmeister" or "Einsatzleitung" written on it) this is special. It means this Station has a special Coordinator (for serval People, in Germany we do it the mil-way, so if you have to coordinate 60+ People and so on you get a Commander, "Brandmeister"). They are called in in serve Emergencies and have "Uplinks" and can shut down Districs/Streets (Gas, Power) and order other Emergency Units (THW, in serious Cases even the Army) into Actions. They are the first "on site" and have to analyse the Situation. For "normal Accidents" no Brandmeister is called into action (as a Brandmeister) even they are also normal Firefighters. You have special Training to become a Brandmeister ("A grandmaster of Firefighting", lousy translation but this is not a normal "Job").
the tones from the siren are in germany every the same the only difference is if they use the E-Horn (electric-siren) (higher pitch) or the airpressure-siren (lower pitch). The driver has also a foot switch for the siren
Be aware that the light patterns are not changing in the videos. But some of the vhicles are older (and equipped with Xenon lights) and cannot be seen by the camera correctly. Which results in an irregular flash pattern.
In Germany we call the sirenes also for "Presslufthorn".
1:24 The Truck passing Berlin main station, is an engine, not a ladder.
The most common vehicle is called TLF - Tank-Lösch-Fahrzeug - lit. tank-extinguishing vehicle. It's basically the fire-fighting Swiss Army-knife: It carries a bunch of guys, a bit of water (~1500 liters/~400gal), some short portable ladders (~6 meters/20ft) and all sorts of gear.
Quite similar looking is the tanker truck - which carries a lot more water but lacks the rear passenger compartment. Often, they come with 3 instead of just 2 axles.
In general - configuration varies a lot due to different tasks. Some fire brigades work only in the city - others work in rural places, too.
For the latter - AWD is helpful. If only used in a city, RWD is sufficient. This saves cost - and a bit of weight which can be used for other things like water or gear.
For special, rarely used gear like hazmat or extra foam (for very big fires) the roll-off container truck does the job.
For real offroading (bush fires), Unimogs are very useful. But they are a topic on their own.
I disagree. TLFs are definitly more rare then normal LFs. The majority of the bigger trucks are LFs
The Swiss pocket knife of Firefighting vehicles is not just any TLF, but the TLF 16/25 after the DIN from 2000-2004, especially the ones with Group cabin and a Rescue kit for traffic accidents.
TLF16/25 (Gr.-H)
Personal of 9 Firefighters
Rescue Kit for medium technical rescue
minimum 2400 Liters of Water in tank
4-part plug-in ladder
I love this Vehicle.
Anyways, the standard Firefighting Vehicles are Löschgruppenfahrzeuge (LF), they have less water than a TLF and carry more personal than a standard TLF.
The First one is actually my city career department and 16 volunteer stations
7:12 Oh look, that's in Hannover, my home town! 🙂 Greetings from Germany.
The word Feuerwehr basicly means fire department
The literal translation would probably be something like "Fire Ward".
One big difference between European and US fire fighting: In the US it's standard policy to evacuate first. After that - the fire is fought.
Here in Europe - it's usually the same way. But many old houses have only one staircase - and therefore, only one escape route. Fire exits aren't as common.
Then - evacuation and actually firefighting has to be done simultanously. Which is also why it's so vital for firefighters to be so quick at the scene and attack directly.
Other than in the US, many houses are very close to each other. Therefore - fire fighting is a lot more urgent to save other buildings from damage.
"Fire exits aren't as common." they sure are
@@EnjoyFirefightingIn older appartment buildings?
Certainly not.
The house I live in is from 1981. 12 appartments, 17 people, 3 stories high.
One central stairway - no emergency exit.
And there are many, many buildings like it around.
@@stanislavczebinski994 so ... based on your apartment building, you speak for apartment buildings all across Europe? That's interesting.
Also only one staircase doesn't automatically mean that there's only one escape route
The 3rd is my Favorit, its Nürnberg my home town fire Station 4 bye the habor
There is a greater variety of vehicles in Europe and Germany. There are more companies involved than in the us. Instead of the whole truck being built by one company, there is one that makes the truck and another that fits the truck will all the things that make it a firetruck instead of a regular truck. The vehicles themselves are also more task-specific than in the us. While it may seem complicated from the outside, it makes a lot of sense and it is not that hard to learn the difference between certain vehicles and what they do.
do you identify this different fire trucks? - first B-Dienst commanding car - technical water truck - laddertruck - and than EMS without doctor
im a german and one siren is for long distance and one for short
So the diferennt to one with the bigger Ladder is the Drehleiter mit Korb and the Other ones are mostly like engines like the Löschfahrzeug and Hilfeleistungslöschfahrzeug
7:28 the sirens only get turned on if nessecary
9:58 FEUERWEHR means Fire Department
Nürnberg (nuremberg) Bavaria =) =) Fire Station 4
9 years old video wow
There is no diffrent noise on german fire trucks its allways the same na nee na nee, police goes nee nee ne nee, and ambulance nee na nee.
uhm what? That's just plain wrong
The lyrics are ”Zu spät, zu spät, zu spät …”
oh come on, at least use the correct thumbnail belonging to that video. You used the thumbnail from my German fire trucks video and then showed and reacted to the German fire truck video of another user
for drivers it is forbidden to use the siren near the fire station. If the fire station is located in a busy area, the ban to use the siren near the station is suspended.
In wich City is that a Rule? Never heared of that.
It's more like an inofficial rule for most machinist to just use the emergency sirens when it's necessary to ease the ears of the residents and pedestrians, who just enjoy their peaceful quite noon.
If we go by most county laws for Firedepartments, all ermergency trips are only legal if the emergency horn and blue lights are used in combination.
nee naw nee naw nee naw🚒🚒🚒🚨🚨🚨
Germany have Blue Lights 😬
youtube don't smarty pants😁@@rainerknuth
In German or Deutsch means it "TaTü -TaTa" or in DARK Humor "Zu spät - Schon tot". To late already dead.
Ohje yes, black Humor 🤣🤣🤣👍👍👍
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