for those asking “why the truck didn’t take the quicker way with the ambulance and squad”; per the description, that’s a separate ambulance and squad than those seen in the beginning.
This also appears to be an out of district response for the truck. Squad 173 was on-scene when Truck 170 arrived. Maybe Engine 173 was tied up on another call.
yes, both the run that they had just left and the run they were enroute to were out of district. the first one was in 18’s and the second in 14’s which means they had to go directly across their own entire district. thanks for watching.
For those complaining about the 9 minute response time, Google Maps suggest it would normally take 14 minutes for that route (or 12 minutes via Imperial Highway).
My son just promoted to engineer and now at station 49 in La Mirada. Very proud of him. I make sure and do as many ride-a-longs as I can and post them on my channel.
For those thinking part of the run looked familiar, when they we're filming Emergency, they put a camera inside squad 18 (Lennox) and got a lot of response video from inside the squad. They would take Lennox Blvd to Prairie and hang a quick right then another quick left to continue up 108th st. to 14's area or hang a left then down to Century Blvd and up to 9's area. Sometimes a long run either way, but in the early 70's there just wasn't enough squad's to cover all of the county back then. Those who were on the squad's got beat up pretty bad.
Glenn Jenkins yeah, my dad was on squads 165s, 7s, and 16s back in the 70s and 80s. He said some of their response times to other areas were up to 40 minutes...he said most nights they never even made up their beds...
Awesome video!!! I really appreciate how you catch the small things that in reality are big. Like the squad following behind for a while, and a quick glance at the station as the rode by. Very good videography. Thanks again!
Great ride along video, gives the public a cool view that they wouldn't normally see, seems like a long ride though for a city dept, my volly dept could probably go anywhere in our township in that time and we cover 36 sq miles, and quite a bit of mutual aid to surrounding depts
I know it’s a little different in the city, but I would give anything to see that officer go screaming with that Q, lol. That truck both looks and sounds great though
it’s a truck company, not an engine. also, the first ambulance and squad you see are going to the hospital, the second squad and ambulance came from different stations. thanks for watching.
МиљковићSRB .... American fire trucks ARE slow! Watch British ride-alongs and you’ll see. A ride-along with the two engines from Watford is a brilliant video. ruclips.net/video/f9Ca38hqnxQ/видео.html
Nothing like flipping on that siren when you’re going down a residential street with no traffic on it just to make sure everyone inside their house know that the fire department is going on a call and still important to the community
LAFD only has 1 truck company that’s not apart of a light force which would be Truck 9, it is staffed with 4. if you’re talking about LACo.FD (this video), they have very few light forces compared to LA City. their truck companies are also staffed with 4.
I never understand why a ladder truck is dispatched on a medical call. I can understand if no other unit is available but there was a 2 person squad and a 2 person ambulance on scene.
yes, all emergency vehicles with lights and sirens can. however, they're still supposed to slow/stop to clear traffic and make sure everyone sees/hears them. protocols change by the company.
Billy Defrancesco quicker acceleration and quicker to deceleration by manually downshifting an upshifting instead of the transmission automatically doing it. That’s why a lot of transmissions have a manual mode
Good video! Any chance of putting a camera back with the tillerman for a ride a long? It looked to as if this driver was manually shifting an automatic transmission???
On older fire apparatus, especially tiller ladders in the city, it is easier on the transmission to manually shift, plus you can keep the RPM’s up to stay in the power band and get the best torque.
here in phoenix area they do not run the ladder truck on medical runs they have a two piece the Departments run a smaller truck it's called a ladder tender it carry's the same equipment as the bigger truck they run them on medical calls traffic accidents they have a minimum staffing who are medics
Looks like engine should have followed McCormick ambulance. The squad did and they got there before engine. I think the engine didn’t really want to spend too much time at scene.
as stated in the description, they were in someone else's district and got a run in another district on the opposite side of their own. so yea, long haul. thanks for watching!
the first ambulance and squad continued up Inglewood Ave. to the hospital. that was a different squad and ambulance at the end, it’s all in the description.
Ok, now it get it ... the video starts at the station, then the run starts from the end of the first call in 18's area then on to the second in 14's area. Few more stations would help, eh.
Take a lesson from London Fire Brigade. Make your trucks smaller and faster. They have to deal with tiny, congested roads and they're still there within 8 minutes. You should be there within six with those roads.
Insane that a Truck Company is responding code to a medical when a private ambulance AND a County Rescue unit is also responding... A waste of taxpayer resources , wear and tear on a $770K apparatus not to mention the roads...
Depending on what the nature of the call is I disagree. Are you a firefighter or EMT to speak on that behalf? Depending on the call, an extra set of hands is always great and very useful. As for sending a ladder truck, maybe not a good idea. Taking a fire attack/rescue piece out of service for a medical isnt the best of resource use. Even an actual heavy rescue really is kind of pointless to send R1 for a medical. Just send a pickup truck if you have it. But by no means just cause theres one private unit and one county unit on scene, does that mean they're covered for resources.
@@znovosad555 32 yrs in the fire service- On a professional S. Cal Department that doesn't have the resources to waste on medical calls... Let alone send 30plus firefighters to a residential structure fire. We are there from initial attack to overhaul with 14 at the most and 3 on routine medical calls (one ENG Co and private AMR ambulance, which is the norm for 90% of Departments)
@xheralt depends on your protocols though. Where I come from typically ladder is first or second due on any fire. To simply take a large rig to a medical call, especially on small roads, still isn't the best use in my opinion. When we can't roll our ambulance we R1 in our heavy rescue. Not the easiest thing to be taking down right backroads without lights and sirens. Now add lights and sirens to the mix. Just my opinion that a crew can pickup is better to send for R1 than a piece of attack/specialty apparatus. Just saying
don't tell me that there should be 3 vehicles for an injured person who is so poorly trained here in the Netherlands only has to drive 1 ambulance or 1 fire brigade for that
damn that's a long response time??? no closer stations than yours ??? If cpr was in progress you guys would have been way too late in getting there. Structure fire??? would have been well involved prior to your arrival HOLY SHIT!!!!!! Not to mention you boys took the long way!!!! Video was 9 minutes long. WHO TAKES NINE MINUTES to arrive on scene?????? Not in Sacramento do we allow that to happen
the RA and Squad beat 'em after they peeled off. I was an Engineer and a Good engineer would not peel off, unless the Captain wanted it, and if you did, you better not get Beat, that will be talked about at the station, and if you get sore, OMG they will be in hysterics. The RA already had the gurney out and in the house, The truck took the slow poke route..
different squad and ambulance in the end than the beginning. please read the description (and the PINNED comment you scrolled past to write this). thanks for watching.
The Q siren and air horn are cool but these guys riding in the truck are going to experience hearing loss if they're not wearing ear protection. For this reason and also for the sake of the citizens the fire trucks in my city use the Q sparingly and the air horn even more sparingly. The trucks are all equipped with fairly loud federal signal sirens that they use continuously if needed
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for those asking “why the truck didn’t take the quicker way with the ambulance and squad”; per the description, that’s a separate ambulance and squad than those seen in the beginning.
This also appears to be an out of district response for the truck. Squad 173 was on-scene when Truck 170 arrived. Maybe Engine 173 was tied up on another call.
yes, both the run that they had just left and the run they were enroute to were out of district. the first one was in 18’s and the second in 14’s which means they had to go directly across their own entire district. thanks for watching.
well of course they were. The squad seen at the beginning had all retired by the time the engine arrived.
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For those complaining about the 9 minute response time, Google Maps suggest it would normally take 14 minutes for that route (or 12 minutes via Imperial Highway).
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And to go even further...you can't drive a fire engine like a cop car.
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I kept expecting to "Engine 51 Squad 51"
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My son just promoted to engineer and now at station 49 in La Mirada. Very proud of him.
I make sure and do as many ride-a-longs as I can and post them on my channel.
For those thinking part of the run looked familiar, when they we're filming Emergency, they put a camera inside squad 18 (Lennox) and got a lot of response video from inside the squad. They would take Lennox Blvd to Prairie and hang a quick right then another quick left to continue up 108th st. to 14's area or hang a left then down to Century Blvd and up to 9's area. Sometimes a long run either way, but in the early 70's there just wasn't enough squad's to cover all of the county back then. Those who were on the squad's got beat up pretty bad.
Glenn Jenkins yeah, my dad was on squads 165s, 7s, and 16s back in the 70s and 80s. He said some of their response times to other areas were up to 40 minutes...he said most nights they never even made up their beds...
I say thank you for the ride. Like a little “road trip”.
Awesome video!!! I really appreciate how you catch the small things that in reality are big. Like the squad following behind for a while, and a quick glance at the station as the rode by. Very good videography. Thanks again!
Great footage. Thank you.
That was a long ride!😆👌
U guys should keep doing this it’s wonderful and good job
Great siren work!
Great ride along video, gives the public a cool view that they wouldn't normally see, seems like a long ride though for a city dept, my volly dept could probably go anywhere in our township in that time and we cover 36 sq miles, and quite a bit of mutual aid to surrounding depts
Love this site!! Keep up the Great work, See ya at the big one !!
Great Video!For those of us who wonder what it must be like riding in a rig,this video sure gives us a great look!
The conversations in back are what make the rides
Lacofd Truck 170 is a 1993 Simon Duplex right?
Thanks for the ride along , that was fun ! 👍😊🚒🇺🇸
I know it’s a little different in the city, but I would give anything to see that officer go screaming with that Q, lol. That truck both looks and sounds great though
Serious question......why did the engine turn off and take another route instead of following the ambulance? Hopefully someone can answer. 😁 thanks.
Just guessing here, maybe the ambulance took a route that the fire truck would have had difficulty fitting through due to the size difference?
it’s a truck company, not an engine. also, the first ambulance and squad you see are going to the hospital, the second squad and ambulance came from different stations. thanks for watching.
why did the ambilance and the truck go one way but the ladder went a different way?
read the description, two separate squads and two separate ambulances in this video. thanks for watching.
That was cool! Everything looks like in slow motion but from outside it looks fast :D
МиљковићSRB .... American fire trucks ARE slow! Watch British ride-alongs and you’ll see. A ride-along with the two engines from Watford is a brilliant video. ruclips.net/video/f9Ca38hqnxQ/видео.html
Was the driver trained to manually shift the automatic transmission or did he decide that was ok up on his own?
You can ride out the gears longer, the engineer probably just decided itll be better
It's just preference
Nothing like flipping on that siren when you’re going down a residential street with no traffic on it just to make sure everyone inside their house know that the fire department is going on a call and still important to the community
You never know when someone might pop out from a parked car, or something.
Nothing like commenting on a video on a platform with millions of users thinking you’re kinda important and people will listen….
Were they lost? Wow!
Is that tiller a standard transmission? I see the driver shifting a lot
manual transmission
@@FB1ResponseVideos interesting.
Looks to be an automatic, he's just downshifting it manually I think...
FB1 Response Videos The Duplex is an Automatic young man.
oops wrong answer
I bet that truck has seen some sad days in a lot of peoples lives.
I know this is super irrelevant but what company is this fire truck made from?
Simon Duplex LTI
Nice stuff I love county
In the beginning of the video, it looked like they have a fire pole. Is that true?
negative, one story house. i thought that on my first time there too.
4:50 and on I have to admit I was clenching my buttocks at the way they took those stop signs!
Now THAT is how you use a Q siren!!!
Thinking the same...ex volunteer
very cool that was a long run
Awesome Video
Well that certainly was fun! 🍺
Where's the call at?
This man knows how to work a siren.... He should give lessons.
What is the staffing for LAFD Truck Companies that aren’t part of a Light Force or Task Force?
LAFD only has 1 truck company that’s not apart of a light force which would be Truck 9, it is staffed with 4. if you’re talking about LACo.FD (this video), they have very few light forces compared to LA City. their truck companies are also staffed with 4.
Love this siren 🚨
I never understand why a ladder truck is dispatched on a medical call. I can understand if no other unit is available but there was a 2 person squad and a 2 person ambulance on scene.
What happened to response call
For a while there I thought they were just going to drive circles around the Lennox / Vermont area.
At 4:14, look at those gas prices! This must be an old video. Great job and great video!
Damn right 3 years ago
Why does the engine go out with the squads on a medical emergency?
Stupid question here: can fire trucks go through red lights?
yes, all emergency vehicles with lights and sirens can. however, they're still supposed to slow/stop to clear traffic and make sure everyone sees/hears them. protocols change by the company.
Wow, 9.5 min response time, I am at 2.5 min RT and feel bad for being so far away from the FD
Nice video!!!!!! That looks like a nice ride!!!!!!!
Why was he shifting an automatic?
Billy Defrancesco quicker acceleration and quicker to deceleration by manually downshifting an upshifting instead of the transmission automatically doing it. That’s why a lot of transmissions have a manual mode
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@@eianmerino190 Thank you for that answer
Good video! Any chance of putting a camera back with the tillerman for a ride a long? It looked to as if this driver was manually shifting an automatic transmission???
On older fire apparatus, especially tiller ladders in the city, it is easier on the transmission to manually shift, plus you can keep the RPM’s up to stay in the power band and get the best torque.
Nice Video greetings from Germany
I always wanted to ride in a real fire truck now I guess I did
Chris S me too
Same
Brought back memories.
What are the power specifications with this Fire Truck
Love the ride along though. It’s not like some other people that don’t really show much all you can do is hear what’s going on.
Is that fire truck a manual or automatic? The driver keeps moving that gear stick
automatic. he was manual shifting, not sure why. thanks for watching.
4:15 was the Mirror Park Gas Station lol from GTA 5
Love Red McCormick ambulance..
I still get nervous riding my bike in town near trucks. In San Luis obispo
are those headsets just inner comm;'s or radio's also ?
captain’s headset can access radio’s, the rest are inner-comms
Congrats on almost 8K Jay & Nice ride along vid!
thanks man!!!
Recognizing all those streets.
Awesome video!
Those guys really have cover alot of ground
here in phoenix area they do not run the ladder truck on medical runs they have a two piece the Departments run a smaller truck it's called a ladder tender it carry's the same equipment as the bigger truck they run them on medical calls traffic accidents they have a minimum staffing who are medics
WTF I could have been to Oklahoma and back...what a ride?!?!?!?!?!
from one first in, through their own, to another first in on the opposite side of there’s. sure, quite the ride. thanks for watching.
@@FB1ResponseVideos its call getting there safely no need to ruch and hurt or kill any one
Looks like engine should have followed McCormick ambulance. The squad did and they got there before engine. I think the engine didn’t really want to spend too much time at scene.
read the description. different squad and different ambulance. also, not an engine.
I was just about to say the same thing.... it was a Truck Not an Engine...
Truck and Engine. LF 170
This is a long run , seems there should be something much closer , they had to go a long way.
as stated in the description, they were in someone else's district and got a run in another district on the opposite side of their own. so yea, long haul. thanks for watching!
COOL, I remember when & rode w/ these guys as INGLEWOOD FIRE" BOYZ IN THE WOOD" !!
Private EMS?
yes
Awesome video man!! Hopefully more ride alongs. 😂
Nice! Any idea when the frontline is coming back?
they had no clue when i was there. haven’t been by to see if the frontline is back yet.
FB1 Response Videos also, Where is your engine? Lol
Nothing like the very distinctive horn of a North American fire truck. That sound should be restricted to fire department use, only!
The lady waving at the truck in 4:23
Xiphyas they knew her by name, apparently they have to visit her house every now and then.
Looked like a unnecessary route to be taken unless the tiller can't go down certain routes ?
This ride had me thinking who ever in that place is burnt up already by the time they get there
U think this is long
Where am from it can take hours b4 they reach let alone being burnt u will b roasted
Allteafrom Zoee You couldn’t do it any faster, you don’t have the qualifications to even get close to a fire engine.
Tyler Corbin what is you talking about
Allteafrom Zoee I’m saying a lot of people don’t know how to dangerous and stressful driving a vehicle that big.
They do more than just fire calls they do medical calls too
I totally love da way this fire truck sounds and I totally love fire trucks straight facts
Love the videos keep up the great work
Nice jobs bro👍👍👍👍👍👍
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Awesome!! I love ride along vids. Do you think they will get a new truck or r they getting there frontline back?
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Are you sure it's a LACoFD truck? The Captain's shoulder patch says City of Los Angeles FD.
pretty positive, says county. thanks for watching.
Interesting video here FB1 Response Videos
LOL, 9 minutes till he caught up to the ambulance...WTF?
the first ambulance and squad continued up Inglewood Ave. to the hospital. that was a different squad and ambulance at the end, it’s all in the description.
so confused...it went to two calls on one run? did it get switch in mid-run?
Ok, now it get it ... the video starts at the station, then the run starts from the end of the first call in 18's area then on to the second in 14's area. Few more stations would help, eh.
the clips are a little confusing, sorry. lots of stations and apparatus around, just a busy day, that’s all! (:
Not to mention the fact that an ambulance can move faster than those big tiller trucks.
were these guys lost?
no.
@@FB1ResponseVideos I know I’m late to this video, but there sure were some clueless people commenting about it.
Nice
Take a lesson from London Fire Brigade. Make your trucks smaller and faster. They have to deal with tiny, congested roads and they're still there within 8 minutes. You should be there within six with those roads.
Not with traffic
We stopped caring what you Brits think sometime around 1776. Worry about your own city!.,
Insane that a Truck Company is responding code to a medical when a private ambulance AND a County Rescue unit is also responding... A waste of taxpayer resources , wear and tear on a $770K apparatus not to mention the roads...
Depending on what the nature of the call is I disagree. Are you a firefighter or EMT to speak on that behalf? Depending on the call, an extra set of hands is always great and very useful. As for sending a ladder truck, maybe not a good idea. Taking a fire attack/rescue piece out of service for a medical isnt the best of resource use. Even an actual heavy rescue really is kind of pointless to send R1 for a medical. Just send a pickup truck if you have it. But by no means just cause theres one private unit and one county unit on scene, does that mean they're covered for resources.
Easier to turn them around, if not needed, been there & done that!!
How long did it took T170 from the station to the scene just wondering
@@znovosad555 32 yrs in the fire service- On a professional S. Cal Department that doesn't have the resources to waste on medical calls... Let alone send 30plus firefighters to a residential structure fire. We are there from initial attack to overhaul with 14 at the most and 3 on routine medical calls (one ENG Co and private AMR ambulance, which is the norm for 90% of Departments)
@xheralt depends on your protocols though. Where I come from typically ladder is first or second due on any fire. To simply take a large rig to a medical call, especially on small roads, still isn't the best use in my opinion. When we can't roll our ambulance we R1 in our heavy rescue. Not the easiest thing to be taking down right backroads without lights and sirens. Now add lights and sirens to the mix. Just my opinion that a crew can pickup is better to send for R1 than a piece of attack/specialty apparatus. Just saying
good sucses
cool
Wow, that was a long response, was there not a closer station. ISO would eat you for lunch.
from one district, through their own, to another district. yes there are stations close-by, it was a busy day. thanks.
Those are some old fire trucks.
don't tell me that there should be 3 vehicles for an injured person who is so poorly trained here in the Netherlands only has to drive 1 ambulance or 1 fire brigade for that
damn that's a long response time??? no closer stations than yours ??? If cpr was in progress you guys would have been way too late in getting there. Structure fire??? would have been well involved prior to your arrival HOLY SHIT!!!!!! Not to mention you boys took the long way!!!! Video was 9 minutes long. WHO TAKES NINE MINUTES to arrive on scene?????? Not in Sacramento do we allow that to happen
you didn’t read the description or through the comments
thank you - I will review the video again. appreciate your input
the RA and Squad beat 'em after they peeled off. I was an Engineer and a Good engineer would not peel off, unless the Captain wanted it, and if you did, you better not get Beat, that will be talked about at the station, and if you get sore, OMG they will be in hysterics. The RA already had the gurney out and in the house, The truck took the slow poke route..
different squad and ambulance in the end than the beginning. please read the description (and the PINNED comment you scrolled past to write this). thanks for watching.
@@FB1ResponseVideos Thank You didn't see the comment but now I have, still buddy not that clear but you are correct!
Engineer Ross
Ok
Wow...almost 10 minutes to get to the emergency.
Nice bumpy crappy California roads.
looks to me LA County fire department needs more stations.
The Q siren and air horn are cool but these guys riding in the truck are going to experience hearing loss if they're not wearing ear protection. For this reason and also for the sake of the citizens the fire trucks in my city use the Q sparingly and the air horn even more sparingly. The trucks are all equipped with fairly loud federal signal sirens that they use continuously if needed
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Truck appears very slow
Do you go on horse and what's next? the movie does not make sense.
9 minute response is UNACCEPTABLE in my area. Hope mcormick qas there way sooner
Hope you know squad was first due not truck
Awesome video