American Reacts to Impressive Australian Firetrucks, Emergency Responses
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Thank you for your video on Aussie fire trucks. I have been a volunteer with the NSWRFS for almost 40 years. I can assure you that the Isuzu is a most versatile vehicle. Some years ago a group of Japanese engineers from Isuzu Japan came out to see what we did with their trucks and they were absolutely astonished. In fact they commented that "their trucks were not meant to do that."
My dads a volunteer at fish river Gunning
Sounds about right
Thank u for your service 🫡
Luckily for the Australian market, Isuzu tend to do prototype testing the way Holden did; push it until it breaks so we know where the breaking point is. If the breaking point is too low, make it stronger and do it again." I drive long haul, and many of the fleet I work with are various sizes of Isuzu. They can survive conditions Euro trucks would give up in long before the Isuzus would. About a third of those trips would be on rough mine roads, but they are tough as nails.
Isuzu have been entrants in the Dakar Rally for years, duelling it out with Hino, and winning in both durability and overall speed. I've even driven one as a 10 tonne skip truck, and they do well in what is a hard job.
Well now you will be receiving Iveco trucks.
As an Australian RFS fire fighter im most impressed just how quickly beer can be provided to fighters when things are under control
Thanks for keeping Australia safe mate.
We all appreciate you guys so much
You have to keep your fluids up when you're fighting fires, and the locals are showing their appreciation via prompt dispatch lol
My memories of RFS days are smoking out the local maccas on the way back and slabs of VB throwdowns around a 44 gallon drum fire keeping us warm.
Anytime for you peeps!
Hi Ian, the low flying plane was a 737 water bomber that was also fighting the fires. One of these crashed in Western Australia earlier this year. The pilot escaped with minor injuries. These guys and girls are heroes (an often overused word but apt in this case).
Most of the crews are volunteers which is amazing. So selfless
Yeah both my parents volunteer, and my best friends dad, as well as my nana who is a non turnout member
That plane was dropping for us at the Toodyay fire a couple days earlier.
@@dgboof7391 They are awesome!
@@rebelrob9637 Agree.
The Isuzu units are 4wd, specially kitted out with sprayers and water tanks that spray water over the cab if they get caught in a fire. We've lost many volunteer firefighters being caught in fire trucks. So now they are kitted out to keep crew alive while fire passes over them.
It is called the halo system, and because of prior incidents that resulted in fatalities, the crews on the firefront are only permitted to use three-quarters of the water in the tank before they have to go back for a refill so that it the case of a burn over scenario there is water in reserve for the halo system
I live in Sydney
@@bescotdude9121 What is the halo system? I am aussie but I never heard of it.
@@_Vark_ he just explained it 🤣😂🤣
The NSW RFS is the largest volunteer fire fighting organisation in the world. Some of them are in Alberta now helping Canada.
A friend of mine is in Canada now. Izuzu trucks were 6 speed manual with 4 wheel drive capability.
Yeah but how many of the 70k is actually active?
@@castrain1419 I would guess typically about 20% of a volunteer fire brigade is active, so probably around 15,000. A lot of the rest probably used to be active at one time but are no longer. Then a minority would have joined and never done a thing other than post photos of themselves in turnout gear to their Facebook page.
@@legallyfree2955that’s what I’ve found until a bad fire season because then them seem to return out of the woodworks everywhere
As a proud Australian, I can't speak highly enough of our firefighters and volunteers. Absolute hero's the lot of them ❤
The white Utes are Group Captain (that's what I do, basically the same as Battalion Chief). The land cruiser is a Category 9 tanker a light reco unit. The large ISUZU are Category 1 tankers 3600lts 4x4. The smaller ISUZU are Category 7 tankers around 1400lts 4x4. The pumpers from NSWFR are SCANIAS.
There was also a Cat 6, the one with the bogie rear axle which holds between 7000 - 9000L. Our Cat 1's only hold 3500L and our Cat 7's only hold 1600L and that's the single cab, the dual cabs hold less. That's in our area..? Do you have much locker space with that much tank space on your appliances?
@matthewholston12787 a little less locked space. We are out west and need bigger water. The cat 7 was a typo should of said around 1400lts. Our 7 is reasonably new and a little larger then the older versions
What year model is your 1 and 7
@@jasonflett7049 The 1 is new, I think 2018 model Isuzu and the 7 is an old Canter 2007 model.
@matthewholston12787 ok....our 7 is an ISUZU and bigger then the Canter. My Brigades 1 is 2020 model I think not sure. In my group of which my brigade is not a member I only have Cat 7.
My dads been a firie for 40 years, he was part of the convoy of 68 trucks that were sent from Sydney down to Batesman Bay during the peak of the fires in 2020, where they even brought in Navy ships to evacuate people by water.
He's been here since the last devastating fires where things were very different, in 1994 he'd been fighting fires for 48 hours and got sent home, told to not come back for 24 hours. only to be paged an hour later that a local fire had jumped the river and was destroying the nearby suburb. He went back up, was given a broken ute, a hose, and a key to the fire hydrant and went by himself and fought fires for another 24 hours.
That was a fire where there was a police car charging down a street, picking people up, catching fire by the end of the street, they all jumped out, put the fire out and the copper went back to it.
Or another story of a crew totally surrounded by fire in a town burning down, they couldnt leave and help couldnt come in. they were panicking and the comm had to say "sit down for 10 minutes, have a sandwich, have a drink, make sure your safe, then rescue anyone you can, forget about the houses".
Theres a hundred stories like these and thats just from a small town on the southern edge of Sydney.
I was in and near the bay when the fires were going on there. We were told to leave our home in less than an hour. We went to Tomakin as there was a meeting place there for everyone went to get in touch with others that were told to shelter in place as well. What i remember most about that day specifically was it was not even midday but it looked like it could be midnight. The sky was completely black with smoke and after a few hours, the only sunlight we could see was a small hole that had formed in the layers of smoke that was allowing a ray of sunlight to shoot through it. It looked as if ''hope'' was shining a light in the darkness you could say. Needless to say, myself and many others had lost almost everything including our homes. It was three days after leaving that we were escorted to our ''home'' by an officer only to find that our home that was once a 7 room house, was turned into less than one floor. Many places did not have power for at least a week after that, a hotel owner was kind enough to give us rooms to stay in, and even hosted a barbeque as the usual kitchen appliances were not working due to the power being out. We also decided to go to Mourya where they were giving out supplies to those who needed them, it wasn't much but it was enough for the time, breakfast, a place to rest and the such, it wasn't until a while later that we were able to go to a location that would give proper supplies such as food, drinks, clothes and common household goods like toilet paper. The Australian government gave out payments of $1000 to those effected so they can buy new clothes and the things they needed right then and there. My only problem with the government reaction is, ironically the RED CROSS. From what i remember, the RC was donated hundreds of thousands if not over a million dollars, they barely used HALF of it for the fire victims. They stated that they would ''save'' most of the donations for the next problem to appear, how funny is it that Covid appears not long after? Covid, the virus that is man made and purposefully released globally. I seriously hate the Red Cross, the useless fucks. At least the government itself said that if you can prove you are a fire victim then we will give the payment to you. RC meanwhile pocketed the donations because the governments had to tax people to ''buy'' covid supplies, but then again, any government who bought supplies from CHINA quickly realized that the ''goods'' they bought were contaminated with diseases. Remember folks, China sends you contaminated medical equipment and takes valuable water from Australia while it burns to the ground. Gotta love Communists aye.
Thank you to your dad and all his colleagues. Fellow aussie and my family were evacuated to Batesmans Bay from Cobargo in 2020. The entire community down there was so thankful for the help, along with the rest of us praying everyone could be safe.
My u cle was a volunteer firie for years and caught a fire bug in the ACT.
So grateful to all our emergency service personnel ❤❤❤
This is my home shire (county), i passed dozens and dozens of these trucks on way home from work in Dec 2019.
Seeing them fearlessly race in the other direction headlong into that fire storm bought tears to my eyes.
God bless them all ❤🫡✊
Where are you?
@@fugawiaus most likely australia
Dunns Road fire
So near Adelong. Sw slopes.
I’m at the top of the blue mtns. Saw plenty of that while protecting my home.
I agree with Michael Fink that the unpaid country fire fighters are true Heroes, as are all firefighters everywhere who risk their lives to save ours. Police Paramedics and Fire Brigade deserve better pay, and any of the state governments deserve being voted out for not burning off in winter to get rid of excess undergrowth before summer and the high temperatures arrive and these big fires ( often set deliberately started by idiots - and I’m being polite here!!) are raging across the country. Thank u people for doing your jobs with such bravery and determination. God bless u all and keep you safe during fire season. And Thanku Ian for showing our people in action.♥️🙏✝️🇦🇺
We actually say "eye-zoo-zoo" here in Sydney.
Same 🇬🇧👍
@@steddie4514 RAD
Sue zoo
Same in tassie
@@michaelconnaireoates5344 Cool shit bro, I'm pretty sure the whole of Australia says "eye-zoo-zoo"? ANY other Ozzie's here say anything else?
The larger trucks are equipped with sprinkler systems and able to drive THROUGH a firestorm to the upwind side. Heard a few stories of US fiery's not knowing this when visiting and having a panic attack when the truck drives in at speed.
Yes and no we do have those equiped to most of our trucks “halo system” but they are more designed for last resort if you can’t get the truck out of the way of the fire you go into burnover mode and turn those halo systems on and deploy your heat shields on all the windows
That's the biggest load of shit I have ever heard the sprinklers are part of a crew protection system not to drive thru fires with typical yank bull shit war stories
Mate at 3.30 if you see that many fire trucks responding you know the shit is hitting the fan in a big way !!
The machine on the back of the truck at 5:39 is a TAF20 remote controlled robot. It can create a fog/mist spray or a jet by hooking it up to a tanker. Its kind of like a bobcat with a snow maker on it.
do like the taf20. never seen it used in anger before though
Thanks, I never seen one of them before, thought it might have been a foam generator or something
@@Ash00999 It can generate foam, if foam additive is used. Its very versatile.
Thanks David, makes sense. Guessing it has some sort of Venturi.
Looks like a decent set of kit, hope I never see it in my neck of the woods 😉
We have the state fire brigades, the State emergency service (SES) and Volunteer bushfire brigade. In Australia we take fire very seriously. No messing around !
and they will deploy anywhere in the world if required and requested as a large group has flown over to canada to help them with their bushfires.
G'day Ian l have been in the Victorian Country Fire Authority as a Volunteer fireman since the age of 16 and now I'm 65, so many fires over the years, loved every moment, cheers mate, Neil 🤠.
Thanks Neil 😎 You're a legend in my book 🎉🎉
Thanks for your Service Mate , you guys are the best !
Thanks for being there for the rest of us Aussies. Your hard work and bravery is very much appreciated.
@@Rusty_Gold85 g'day thanks for your comment, l have been awarded the National Medal for my Service, cheers mate, Neil.
@@libbypeace68 Thankyou for your comment l have been awarded the National Medal for my Service, cheers, Neil.
Love our firefighters, and I also love the relationship we have with you Americans and the Canadians next door, no matter where the fire we can count on each other to help the others out, no matter how far away and without hesitation.
All those brave men & women who rush in to help, while the rest of us are running for our lives. These people are just not paid enough. Thank you to ALL first responders. You make us all feel comforted and safe ❤
The greater majority of firefighters at Aussie bushfires are paid nothing, they are volunteers.
Australia gets a lot of bush fires, and quite a few of them are extreme.
We're constantly making improvements to our fire trucks for that reason, too many lives lost over the years.
Also, the plane is carrying water, they fly over and dump it onto the fires 😊
I think the newer fire engines have fire-proof cabins (or something like that) if they get overwhelmed by a fire front
@@shaunosmorrison8385 I was in the CFA in Victoria for many years and the trucks have seen many improvements since the Linton fire where a crew from Geelong was killed when they were caught in the fire path with the trucks water tank empty. Since then trucks have a low water warning system so there is always something in reserve. New trucks now have room inside the cab for the entire crew to shelter with internal roll down heat shields on each window. There is also a deluge system where from inside the cab the crew can activate built in water sprays which cover the entire vehicle.
@@johnphelps9788 man i wish we took safety as seriously in NSW RFS. We just got a “new” (refurbished) Cat 1, and didn’t even get fire curtains.
@@StormTalara that's terrible, can you get them retro fitted? Pollies just dont appreciate volunteers I'm afraid.They call you heroes when you're most needed then hope you disappear into the woodwork when It's time to allocate funding. Stay safe up there you firies.
@johnphelps9788 it's a funding issue, NSW government has been ripping the funding out of services for years even before the 2020 fires. Then people found out and suddenly "arsons are everywhere, they're overwhelming our services!" Like they hadn't ripped hundreds of millions out of them
I'm in Western Australia, most new housing being built will have a park nearby with a man-made lake so if there are fires nearby the water choppers have easy quick access to water(don't know if other states do this). There have been times that the water choppers have flown over my house to get the lake a couple streets away, it's so loud & makes the windows rattle.
My father was a QFES (Qld Fire and Rescue Service) firie for 30 years. I have a vivid childhood memory of hanging the washing on the line, and seeing tiny ember holes in my dads work shirts.
Nearly all small towns in Australia have a fire station manned by volunteers with one fire truck and a SES (state emergency service) vehicle equipped with the jaws of life etc. I live in South Eastern Victoria and experienced the 2019-20 bushfires very scary. Fire trucks came from all over the state to help out and I had the opportunity to thank some of them when they parked in front of my house. Bless them all.
Wow, everyone turned up except police rescue.
We don’t go to bushfires half assed here in Australia.
The fully covered trucks in mostly full red (square ones) are full time fire brigade (fire dept in US)
The 4x4 raised red and white with open backs are Bush fire brigade (RFS) (volunteers).
The red utes are fire commanders
The white utes and troopies are ambulance.
The bmws and unmarked SUVs are highway patrol
The black land cruisers are usually “riot squad”.
Just before the 2019 bush fires here NSW Rfs bought the 737 and two spotter planes. The spotter flies the line they have chosen and puts two puffs of smoke. The 737 lines up the puffs and as it hits the first it drops red fire suppressant then hits the second and stops the drop.
NSW is the only state that owns its planes, the rest rent them.
Look into the safety systems on those RFS 4x4 trucks, they make the the rest of the world seem tame in comparison.
I'm a Volunteer Firefighter with the CFA down in Victoria.
I love what I do, and I appreciate this video so much!
I’m a NSW RFS volunteer and was out during these fires. Thank you so much for appreciating us, and enjoying the appliances we work with. 😁
The maroon 4wd (ute/truck) that you couldn’t quite make out what it said was divisional command, commonly called Divcom. That’s what was also the white 4wd that looked similar (in the frame with the small 4wd fire truck (Cat 9) Toyota Landcruiser ute).
There was a bunch of Cat 1 Isuzus. The pumpers are usually Scanias. There was a Cat 6 bulk water tanker which I think was also an Isuzu. Think there might have been a couple of Cat 2s in there too.
The “truck” on the back of the truck looks like the big cannon used up round Sydney.
The plane was a 737 Large Aerial Tanker (LAT), and markings look like it’s a Coulson LAT, which is Canadian. We lost one during the 2019/2020 fires just up the road from me, which was a very very bad day. 😢
Down where i am we have Isuzus, and some of the older trucks are Canters.
The other Toyota Landcruiser you mentioned is known as a Toyota Troop carrier (Troopy), very popular in Australia and later models are fitted with a turbo V8 engine. They are rugged and durable to suit off road work, I have one as a work vehicle as I travel throughout central Australia on unpaved (dirt) roads.
The Best ✅
Video time 4:04 is a Toyota Landcruiser Troop Carrier, I owned a 1994 model from 2002 to 2021, had 835.000 + Klms on the clock when I sold it.
This is in NSW. There are two fire services there. (Australian fire services are mostly a state, not a local government thing)
Fire and Rescue NSW provide coverage for cities and country towns (from about 1000 population upwards). They do fire, hazardous material response and rescue work, and are mainly equipped with pumpers ('engines' in USA), aerial appliances and specialised units. Their units on the clip are mainly pumpers. They are career firefighters (cities) and paid on call firefighters (country towns). At bush fires they would do mainly defensive (property protection from roads), although they also have some tankers ('brush truck's in the USA). They have over 600 vehicles, about 3500 career firefighters, 3500 paid on call firefighters, and several thousand members of the public in 'community fire units' helping protect streets in urban fringe areas. They cover about 90% of the population in the state.
The other service is the NSW Rural Fire Service (worlds largest with 70,000+ firefighters in about 2000 brigades, with a fleet of about 4000 vehicles, 30 fireboats and multiple aircraft) which cover rural areas, villages up to about 1000 people, and urban fringe areas. They are unpaid volunteer firefighters with a paid staff of about 900 providing admin, command and support services. They cover about 90% of the land area of the state. They do mainly small structural firefighting, grass and bush firefighting, and fire protection at road accidents. They use mainly tankers (brush trucks). Most you see shown on the clip are Cat 1 tankers with about 1000 USG tanks. Their pumps have lower GPM than the urban units, but usually carry more water. Also shown are some Cat 9s (Land Cruiser based) with small tanks. The white RFS vehicles are for more senior officers (mostly senior volunteers) for field command and control.
The two services have different philosophies of vehicle design. F&R NSW are purpose built, high capability, mostly 2WD specialised vehicles, with extensive equipment and bespoke plumbing. Their pumps are usually PTO driven. NSW RFS vehicles are based on commercial off-the shelf equipment on commercial 4WD diesel trucks, hardened against fire damage to their vital systems, and fitted with protective cabin spray systems. Their equipment is good, but more modest and easier to maintain. Their pumps are usually powered by a separate rear mounted small diesel engine and the plumbing uses off the shelf piping and valves, often available from local country hardware stores. Most units will cruise at 65 mph easily. A F&R pumper would be about three times more expensive than a large RFS tanker because of these differences
they are also higher off the ground as the RFS often has to go onto firetracks, or unpaved roads cut into the bush to allow them access to fires. as these are not maintained they are often rutted and pretty rough, hence why the RFS trucks sit so high, so they can access these trails. ruclips.net/video/e0zDgo_o9H0/видео.html this is oaks fire trail which is in the blue mountains just outside sydney as you are driving to lithgow (popular for mountain biking hence the video) just to show why the RFS trucks are built like they are as this is what they have to access, normal firetrucks are to low.
Very informative and interesting. Thanks.
Not accurate at all.
The pumpers, in this case Scanias are off-the-shelf truck bodies just like the Isuzu's are.
The appliances are all custom fabricated to different design specs.
The pipework, pump, aux motor (if applicable) and associated devices are fitted based on designs. The "stowage" is fitted also based on designs and any other special requirements.
Designs and stowage are role-based.
The assertion about piping and valves is ludicrous. Parts are used based on requirements and 99% of it comes off a shelf. ON BOTH
FWIW, the lions-share of the cost of a NSWFRS pumper is the equipment it carries on it, hence different and more stowage (and much less water).
And.. you'll also often find that the appliances are built by the exact same companies.
RFS are absolute legends
They also have the Bush Fire Service, although it is uncommon to come by
My dad has been in the RFS since the late 90’s he’s battled most of the major bushfires of the last 30 odd years
Heads up to all our volunteer firefighters too. They are brilliant.
Wow! All from my home town, I was fighting these fires and was a very scary and intense experience
If I'm not mistaking. This was during the black summer right?
These type of trucks evolved out of Ash Wednesday which was on 1983. There was a big lack of communication equipment and the fry trucks were inadequate. So they design these quick-fill trucks.
Hi its a Code 1 response lights and sirens, by Law you have safely pull over to allow Emergency vehicles to proceed...and yes the Cat 1 Tanker and the Pumper are interesting to drive at speed as the water slops around behind you and you get this inertia affect it rocks back and forth and side to side, its uneverving at first but with a lot of training, practice and skill you get somewhat use it....but you can never be too careful as they do roll hence the roll cage inside
Yes, it’s humbling to be an Australian, we have great firefighters here ❤
If your desperate for attention I guess!
"humbling"?
Cheers mate. Thanks for watching.
I always found it funny that the fire risk sign starts at moderate and the second level is high… technically they can say ‘no rating’ but the sign we would pass going to and from home to the main town never dropped below moderate and was far more likely to be at high, and that was in North Queensland which on average isn’t as bad some other areas in australia
The fire fighters are awesome and most during the bushfires are Volunteers. In the various States we also have different named organizations Country Fire Authority {CFA} , Bush Fire Board {BFB} and so on, with different liveries. Here in WA the BFB trucks are generally White white high vis reflective stripes. However there is a different Volunteer Emergency Service around Australia named State (or Territory) Emergency Service, dealing with other emergency situations. Storm Damage, Flood, Earthquake Etc and assisting the other ESs. The various states have different roles for their SES organizations but generally very similar.Also a separate Ambulance Service and Marine Rescue Service. You may want to look up Australian SES And follow the various threads. Oh yes we do have Cliff and Cave rescue roles as well and some Road Accident Rescue also. Something else to have a look at.
Former CFS (Country Fire Service) member from South Australia.
Our vehicles in SA are different to other states as the CFS trucks & utes are all white with the yellow/red high vis strips over the units.
Most of the CFS trucks are now Isuzu as the service has been going thought a major refit and change in the fleet to modernize the trucks.
The Ute units can be mixed between Toyota & Nissan utes.
One of the great things the CFS does is it has identifiers in the unit names so you know what type of unit it is that is on scene.
They are usually called the station name XXX then have either a number or lettering/word to identify the truck.
For instance a 24 unit is designated that way as it is holds 2000lt of water and is a 4x4 vehicle, so it can go offroad to fight fires. Currently the off road vehicles can go up to 4000lt of water.
There are trucks that can have the number designation but also a letter like P or an A - The P is for a Pumper unit that is designed for both rural firefighting and suburban firefighting like house fires. A is usually used if a station has two units of the same designation.
Then there are straight Pumper units that do not go offroad and are only used for suburban firefighting along side paid metropolitan firefighters, usually seen in large rural population centres.
There is also tanker units and other specialized
units.
You also have the SES which is the State Emergency Service which is responsible for floods and storms, however the SES also assist in the RFS during the bushfire season and visa versa the RFS assist the SES with floods and storms, also the SES has road crash services in some areas and assists Police in search and rescue, so they all work together during civil emergencies, The defense forces also work with civil emergency agencies when you have a large disaster.
Generally in Australia right now, the fire trucks in rural areas are Isuzus, while urban areas use Scania P-series trucks. There are some exceptions, but that's how it is in this video. You see a lot of Isuzu pumpers and the Scania pumpers that you see were probably brought in as back-up from the city.
In Victoria we use a couple of different platforms for the LandCruiser ute we have a "slip on" unit which has appx 400 litres and are used by CFA and government forestry departments which have their own versions and the ' big fill" which is a high volume pump on the back used for filling out tankers quickly from dams etc.
Also got the REHAB and the FFMV unimog 💦
Don't forget the "Ultralights" which functionally is like a slip on, only instead of being something that slides onto a tray and is bolted / tied down, it replaces the tray and has a water tank the fits down between the frame rails, lowering the overall centre of gravity.
Always got so much respect for the people doing Firefighting Missions.
Yeah, Scania is most common fire truck around towns and cities in Australia. The other trucks that were in the video service outer areas of the country
I used to serve as a volunteer firefighter in the NSW Rural Fire Service, my god I miss it. I do plan to rejoin again in the future, when life allows it.
That every man in those trucks are volunteers, is extraordinary service and commitment! The police are always there as well to protect the public! There is a new reality tv show on now called Police Rescue, a specially trained team dealing with any emergency in a big hurry, we should not take their sacrifices for granted! 🙋👏
I thought the fire and rescue are full time firies
@@beyondbackwater4933 No, only the Police are full time employees!
NSW Fire + Rescue are retained or permanent, and paid in both circumstances.
@@beyondbackwater4933 a mix of full time and retained firefighters for Fire and Rescue, depending on what station they are from.
@@beyondbackwater4933 The higher trucks which are 4wd are the Rural Fire Brigade, which mostly are just locals that volunteer. The couple of trucks with less ground clearance would be city/town units which are more staffed by full-timers.
In my state, New South Wales, there is the Rural Fire Service which fights forest and grass fires and Fire and Rescue NSW which fights structure fires. The RFS is largely volunteer (74,000 of them) and there are fire sheds everywhere, 2000 across the state, each with at least one truck. The replacement of trucks extends over many years which means a mix of trucks and liveries will be seen during a fire emergency. Fire and Rescue is largely a professional service but small towns like mine have volunteer units . Larger towns often have both professional and volunteer units. During a bushfire the RFS will tackle the fire while Fire and Rescue will deal with buildings under threat. Into this mix the Forestry Corporation and National Parks have professional fire crews as first responders to fires on their patches. On top of this the military will send its (civilian) firefighters if asked but most the cavalry are bushfire fighters from other states. The military are trained and equipped for structure fires. In many small towns, the Fire and Rescue unit will be a limited medical first responder (essentially first aid such as CPR) until an ambulance arrives. I live 30 miles from the nearest ambulance station.
when i was around nine, we were picking up a new car from near Newcastle, and a fire truck was coming up behind us and other vehicles, and a fire truck was coming up, and every one pulled to the side (btw heavy traffic) and the firetruck went threw really quickly, and after it passed everyone drove like normal after!
4.00is NSW ambulance. The troop carriers are used for difficult terrain that normal sprinter vans can’t access
As a few comments have mentioned, each Australian state has both a metropolitan fire brigade for city & suburbia purposes, and a Rural Fire Service (RFS), the latter mostly made up of volunteers. The name might vary in different states (In the state of Victoria it's the Counntry Fire Authority (CFA)). Usually the RFS responds to bushfires first, but sometimes it's all hands on deck. The first two trucks in your video were the metropolitan brigade (NSW Fire & Rescue), the subsequent trucks were RFS.
The RFS and their interstate equivalents (CFS, CFA, BFS, RFB and some I've missed) have responsibility for all fire in their gazetted areas. They will respond to any call in their area, adjacent areas, or state-wide based on pre-existing response plans / arrangements.
subsequent trucks until the Scania, which were NSWFR.
Small correction, the state of Tasmania has one fire service (TFS) which has both career and volunteer firefighters.
Western Australia is Fire and Rescue and volunteers are volunteer Fire and Rescue so VFR&S pretty easy on that state
We Aussies love our firefighters and volunteer crews. Small towns everyone bands together and volunteers. In big cities the firies will often wave when they go past in traffic.
5:29 FUN FACT
That plane is actually from the Australian fire department, if you search them up, you can see it’s details, I’m unsure what they are for
Great video glad you take interest in Australia's emergency services big fan
many of the fire trucks are light / medium 4WD trucks as this make travel in bush easier also there are "Rural fire units" based on light trucks and utes single and dual cabs 4WDs
Firefighter from Victoria, Australia here, So Australian Fire Service is made up of about 90% Volunteers, unlike Americans most state or territory will have two service with state have more one volunteer such as Country Fire Authority (Victoria) ,Rural Fire Service (New South Wale, Country Fire Service (South Australia) and one paided firefighter either full time or retained/on-call such as Fire Rescue Victoria (Full Time), Fire Rescue New South Wale (Retained and Fulltime) and South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service (Full Time), Most Career are based in City and have Urban Apparatus such as Pumper, Aerial Pumper, Ladder Platforms and Specialty Apparatus such as Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT), BA Support, Mobile Command Centre and Technical Rescue. Volunteer or Bushie as they are called are normal your wildfire response, Most brigade running Heavy, Medium, Light Tanker, as well as Ultra Light or Slip On, with brigade with minimum access to water having Ultra Heavy Tanker, most brigade will have a Specialty Vehicles, such as a Quick Fill/Big Fill, Hazardous Materials (HAZMAT), BA Support, Rescue and such on.
They did not show them in this video, but somewhere in Australia, fire department is using TATRA special made specifically for bush fires, look them up! :-)
I believe it was a demo fire truck touring Australia and was eventually purchased by a mine site. Too expensive compared to Isuzu and I don’t think the Australian market is ready for TATRA.
Also, most of the rural fire fighters are volunteers in Australia. 🇦🇺
Unmarked units are often the fire inspector or fire chief executive to make decisions about where to send appliances..
I saved my parents house twice from randomly generated fires within the roof , the station is less than 1km away & that always came through as the best way to ever chose a location to live ... I now live rural but the local RFS station is located closer to me than town so select homes bases off how close good help is..
El Niño this year, after 3 consecutive years of La Niña. There’s been a lot of vegetation growth, and when the coming droughts and 45C+ heatwaves come it’ll all get dried up.
Temperature’s only gettin’ hotter; I hope against, but expect, a fire season worse than 2019-20 within the next 3 years.
2019-20 was unbelievable; it’s impossible to describe the sheer *scale* of the fires, and of seeing the rolling smoke clouds high up cover the sky and city for weeks.
We had ash and insects falling from the sky more than 150km away from the firefront. It got to 48 degrees in coastal Sydney.
rfs trucks are Isuzu cat 1s, 5s and 7s by the looks and carry 3500ltrs, 9000ltrs and 1600ltrs respectively. These are meant for offroad firefighting.
The ones that look lower to the ground are Hino cat 10s and 11s for house fires and road accidents and support duringbig fires close to villages. The smaller landcruser cat 9 strikers are for smaller less accessible tracks and carry around 600ltrs.
I live in Australia and the fire was like 1 meter away from my house. I love firefighters they saved my house. There was another fire and it looked like a nuke was dropped. It covered 200 Acres.
In Tasmania the larger trucks with roller doors on the sides are 3.1s, the mid size trucks with the more open style backs are 4.1s, the more open the back the older the model, the utes are 5.1s and the 4wds are more personel carriers.
The 4.1s and 5.1s are made for off road use, and the 3.1s are generally only structure fires or sometimes used as a water source if we need a mid point between hydrants or dams but they dont like going off road. The 5.1s are really good for patroling the outskirts of a fire and putting out any ember attacks or putting in a controlled burn line and navigating through really tight tracks.
A while ago, I was at a trucking yard in Wacol: industrial suburb of Brisbane. Volvo and Mack trucks are built in Wacol, as well. In the trucking yard was a 1970's Mack CF600 NYFD fire engine. Spent a while looking it over. Completely different-looking from any Aussie fire unit, but accomplishes the same tasks.
As a Australian, Australian people don’t realise how well setup we are for emergency and Australian Army and defence forces.
The oil in eucalyptus trees is what makes Australian bushfires so dangerous.
Thank you for your good commentary on Australia’s hard working firefighters the awesome dedicated volunteers 😊 👍🏼🇦🇺
They're both full time and volunteers. The first trucks were Rural Fire Service manned by volunteers. Fire Rescue in the scania trucks are paid.
From Sydney, Australia 🇦🇺
Wow, that's a fast response in strength against what looks like an apocalyptic situation. The cameraperson sure knew where to stand!
also some of the rural fire services are using large bulk tanker lorries to supply water direct to fire pump trucks or to supply water storage that helicopters can dunk their bucket into (the storage units are bigger versions of those self supporting above ground swimming pools)
I grew up in New Zealand which is 2000km from Australia. In the bushfire season my mother could not put washing on the clothes line to dry. The ash from the fires would turn the washing a dirty grey.
I lived in Melbourne Aus. For a couple of years in the mid sixties. The emergency vehicles all had different sirens. The police cars had the regular siren we are all used to. Ambulances had the European he haw siren and fire trucks has and electronically produced sound like a flat tone dead rattle. I always thought that it was a god idea as soon as you heard the sound you knew what type of vehicle to look for.
We have a diverse mix of appliances in use from Izuzu to Scania and many more. State fire covers most metro areas with the Rural Fire Brigade covering more remote areas. These trucks are sometimes yellow and not red. Alot of the appliances have burn over deluge pumps and spray systems along with the fire curtains. Some of the utes have foam systems to protect occupants during a burn over.
The video looks familiar, I was in Bargo and Picton for a conference and we had to evacuate before the highway got cut off. I never really felt fear until I locked the hotel door, and looked at the ridge behind me 400m away in flames with the 737 and two helos water bombing. That's when a local RFB volunteer told us to get out. 15 minutes later the road out got cut off from burning over.
in America, they use the same trucks everywhere unlike in Australia, where we have two fire emergency services: the MFS (Metropolitan Fire Service) and the CFS/CFA (Country Fire Service/Country Fire Authority), where the MFS use larger trucks which are thicker and wider like MAN, while the CFS has thinner and more slick trucks like Isuzu.
I think the Fire brigades especially all the volunteer ones are the bravest men on earth..
A lot of the Rural fire service trucks are actually 4wd, if you look at about the 4.10 mark as the trucks turn right you can see the front diffs.
In Australia when an emergency vehicle is approaching all other traffic is required to pull over to the side to allow them a clear run to pass. This is why at the start you noticed the truck go down the middle of the road with the cars had moved to the side and stopped, waiting for the truck to pass.
My electrical company did some work for the plant that makes these trucks for the NSW fire service, it's quite a sight. They pretty much strip a commercial truck down to the cabin, even modifying the chassis. All new wiring harness, bodywork, everything.
The RFS (Rural Fire Service) are pretty big heroes - they are volunteers who do like meat tray raffles etc for funding
I wonder if Germany has meat trays ?... bet they awesome if they do.
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Thank you....I been NSWRFS for 30 years
Thankyou from an Aussie Fire Dispatcher!!! ❤🇦🇺
I enjoy fighting bushfires. Its an unequivocal good. Your on a truck, with your mates, a big sign on the side declaring exactly where your from. Everyone knows where your from, and why you are their.
Its even better when you are the one recovering help. All these peope, from all these place are here to help you
the unit on the back of the truck at 5:41 looks very much like a high velocity water fan (used on large demolition sites for dust control, versions are used to make snow in ski fields or truck mounted to mist decontamination chemicals) or in this case possibly set up spray barriers to protect high value areas...
The box looking trucks are the town brigades,
The Isuzu trucks are 4wd volunteer bushfire brigades.
I really enjoyed that video
Thanks mate ❤
I'm a volunteer fire fighter I started my Fire fighting career with the CFA in Victoria and now I'm a volunteer fire fighter with the TFS in Tasmania and I also love wat I do and appreciate this video
When there's a big bush fire in Australia, the eucalyptus oil can evaporate out of the leaves of gum trees and make fire balls which can land downwind of the fire front
The number of fire trucks and police vehicles responding to this emergency is akin to the recent fire which totally destroyed an old hat factory in Surry Hills near Sydney Central Station and up the road from the office building I am working in, on 25th May. I had front row seat as my desk is adjacent to a window so I saw the whole drama unfold after 4pm that afternoon. After 4 weeks the northbound lanes of Elizabeth Street, (one of the four main nort- south streets in Sydney CBD, the others being, George, Pitt and Castlereagh Streets), are still closed to traffic. 😎🇦🇺
we even have a truck that the firies put up a cover and spills water out the truck to protect the firies within.
I was in the black saturday fire. A truck with members died when the fire took out their truck- they decided to have a water sprinkler system to protect the fories within
@IWrocker, the appliances at about the 4:40 mark are the standard the typical Australian Urban Pumper or 'Engine' as you call them in the USA. Pretty much every fire service in the nation uses Scania trucks - some have mid mounted pumps (FRV and MFS in the southern states) or rear mounted pumps (everywhere else?). I suspect the Officer In Charge has called for a Pumper Strike team which are drawn upon to protect houses in suburbs that come under threat from grass and scrub fires.
lol looking for this vid 24 hour ago, now you posted it for me:)
Fun fact alot of these bush fighting trucks have sprinkler systems built into them to spay water around the truck to put out small fires and embers to keep the truck crew safe
Part of the reason to my knowledge that they need so many trucks is because even if the fire is not on a tree anymore if it's still hot enough the tree will spontaneously explode and make the fire bigger, and every ember has to be gone or the shrubbery and fallen leaves will catch it and moat gum leaves are good fuel for fire either dry or not.
Look thier awsome really unsung hero's I'm not a volunteer but drive a water truck as back up supply and thier profesional and during the 2019 fires many American fire-fighters came to the rescue from Canada as well as new Zealand, and believe me those air tankers , Elvis etc are a welcome site too .
I live in Western Australia, we get a lot of bush fires unfortunately.
Our fire fighters do an incredible job saving many lives, houses and wildlife (one of the more recent fires in 2021 which started was put out after a week close to my home)
Our fire risk signs recently had an upgrade last year and are digital 😊
Firies..... Absolute Legends. The only people running in when everyone else is running out.
Drove these CAT1 tankers for 20 years. Isuzu is pronounced- i-sue- sue.
The RFS (new south wales Rural Fire Service is the world’s largest fire service with the majority of crew volunteers.
I’m retired now.
Thanks for sharing. 🙏🏽
It's been a while since the fires, and this really brought back memories. It honestly felt apocolyptic. like the beggining of armageddon.. Crazy shit.
I was the Driver of the last Cat 1 in the tanker named Eastern Creek. We were apart of a stirke team from the Cumberland Zone an hour north of the Fire.
Bmw siren is the code 3 bachie and Pursuit siren. Sirens on the fire trucks are Hazzard Systems which was brought out by Code 3. Most full time crewed fire trucks are Scanias. Most part tkme trucks are Isuzu. The majority of these tejcks are called Rural Fire teucks which are a tanker whuch have 1,000-4,000L of water. NSW has the best equipped Emergency Services in Australia. Tbh NSW RFS have their 737 in California right now.
Here in Australia we have many makes of vehicles when it comes to fire fighting where i am from in Victoria we have an all Scania truck outfit of trucks now which is cool we did have a Freightliner ladder unit but for some reason we do not have it any more. and our fire service got a new name here it is now called frv fire rescue Victoria. and for me seeing these brave men and women going out to fight some of the biggest fires over the years that i have head of and seen they are the bravest people i have ever seen and all need meddles for what they do. We appreciate each and every one of them.
In each of our states we have so many volunteers that attend to these fires.. RFS (Rural fire service- NSW & QLD).. CFA (Country Fire Authority -Vic) CFS (Country fire service - SA) VFRS (Volunteer Fire and Rescue service - WA) NTFRS - NT, TFS - Tasi & lastly ACT has ACTFRS. We also have the SES - State emergency service (sooo many Volunteers) - I am and ex one for that, Ambos and Police. and remember we call the Firies... Ambos, Cops and SES
Bodies are made local under tender in Windsor a North western suburb of Sydney. Often see them heading out new to their new stations to carry out duties in various parts of NSW
There are different "appliances" depending on the situation, some are tankers, hose units etc. They are made to drive through the bush where there are no roads, through fences if needed. A whole truck of fire fighters was lost in a flashover during the Ash Wednesday fires in 1983, they were caught in a dry creek bed travelling in convoy and they were trapped. After those fires there was a MAJOR change and update to the trucks, the procedures etc.
We have a set of specially adapted helicopters called ELVIS which are water bombers and are often sent overseas to help other countries.
Also most of the crews are volunteers who are not paid and we thank them every day.
The Helicopter you’re talking about “Elvis” (has been retired some years now) ie the Sikorsky Sky crane is from the United States, we eg NSW and other states hire them from North America for bush fire season. The concept of these heavy lift helicopters being converted into firefighting is purely North American. 😀
@@zig-y1vyes, Elvis the orange helicopter was retired long ago but was a very welcome sight when you did see him in the skies. Now we have the larger jumbo planes as well as other various helicopters or smaller planes which we call those "water bombers" here in WA. We pretty much share the planes with the US as our Summers are opposite to theirs so works out well for both and you're not having assets sit around for 6 months of the year. Same goes with volunteering during major bushfires, we're more then happy to help out our US/Canadian mates and they have no questions returning the favours. Its a fantastic relationship.
@@AmandaMitting as a firefighter for over 30 years I’m well aware of how things work. Australia only tends to send VLAT or LAT overseas not rotary aircraft.
@@zig-y1v Wow....talk about being a TAD condescending!! My reply was actually to the original poster and somehow in my lack of sleep in the last 36hrs, I mistakenly replied to your comment. There is NO need to be RUDE!! Is everyone and myself suppose to know who you are and how superior you are to everyone else?? My comment was to elaborate on the original posters comment as to help Ian (the creator) have a larger image of how things are here, just like everyone else having their say and adding their own information.
Great video! If you enjoyed this I would recommend doing a similar video on Victoria's fire fighting services (CFA- Country Fire, Volunteer based and MFB - Metropolitan Fire Brigade, who are CBD and suburban-based professional firefighters)
Not MFB anymore - now FRV (Fire Rescue Victoria) ❤ from Fire Dispatch