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The one with no sirens was during night time, they don't usually use much sirens during night so they don't disturb sleeping people so much.
Same thing here in Germany.
Sirens at night are only used when running red lights.
Same here in the Netherlands
I think it also had a patient on board, thus was driving slower.
@@sandrader2889 in the Netherlamds, some emergency vehicles have sirens with a night mode. So the sound isn't waking eveyone up, but still loud enough to be noticable in traffic.
Yes, using sirens during certain times is prohibited in cities.
The sirens here are "weird" because they are designed to sound different based on the direction you are hearing it from. You can actually distinguish if the vehicle is coming behind you, if it is far ahead you, from the front or either side.
Sirens are "wail", "yelp", "hi/lo" and "airhorn" on Fire trucks, driver decide what he uses, Ambulance dont have "Airhorn" and police cant choose, its 6 sec "yelp" and 6 sec "hi/lo". It exactly same "yelp" and "hi/lo" sound generator on all emergency vehicles in Finland, but what type of loudspeaker and where it's located on the vehicle, the sound delivered varies.
How loud sirens in Finland are, i hear ambulances during day time, when they leave fire station, even when indoors and they are 200m away,
Briefly about emergency vehicle lights in Finland: Amber is for warning lights such as for wide load haulers or slow construction vehicles. Blue is reserved for all emergency vehicles. And the flashing red (with flashing blue) is only used by police (poliisi in Finnish and polis in Swedish) to tell a vehicle to stop in a safe location.
In a fact it's the same rule allover EU. Only blue lights. And Blue is decided as a main color for Police vehicles and FD's must paint vehicles red. Ambulances have more clearance in colors. And ambulances have some sort of color coding that tell what rate ambulance it is. they are not all the same.
Same thing here in Germany - except for flashing red/blue. Emergency vehicles are always all blue.
yes that's how it is
@@stanislavczebinski994 same here in the Netherlands although some roadwork emergency vehicles also have a blue light and siren(Rijkswaterstaat, its directly controlled by the part of the government that goes over road infrastructure here, Ministerie van Infrastructuur en Waterstaat)
@@stanislavczebinski994 German Police cars have a red flashing light in combination with a yelp and red text matrix to order a motorist to stop at the next safe opportunity. It can be seen here: ruclips.net/video/mi5gwO5FLBM/видео.html. First the red text matrix would be used. Next step of escalation would be the addition of the red flash and lastly the yelp. Blue lights and sirens would not be used (that would be the old way to escalate from the text matrix) because they should only be used to indicate an emergency trip (?) or in a pursuit. I have seen them used in a few german states, but luckly not on me.
Swede here,
Most Swedish/Finnish First Responders don't run sirens at night unless they absolutely have to, they don't want to wake people sleeping, and our sirens are pretty quiet compared to the US, so sometimes you won't even hear them until they are right on your bumper.
Edit: Also, the sirens are "annoying" to catch the attention of drivers, they very up-down-up-down in the tone, it's been proven to alert drivers better rather than just one static tone.
And the vehicles are sold by police departments and Ambulance Service after use, however, at least in Sweden, the reflective patterns are restricted and it's actually illegal to own Police/Fire/EMS reflectives.
The sirens here in Finland are designed so people can more easily determine from what direction the sound is coming from. That fire truck at 4:20 (HE201) is a first responce unit. (HE=Helsinki 20=Firestation "Erottaja" 1=First Responce Unit.) The fire stations when getting an emergency call, send responce units according to a certain pattern. Before the type of emergency is even fully clarified, the first responce unit is already on it's way. Those units contain a whole garagefull of different stuff for different emegencies.
no. 1 = Fire Engine and its an engine not a first responder.
Sisu is a Finnish manufacturer, they also make the Pasi 6X6 for the Finnish military under the name Patria. There is a cool video where Finnish RUclips channel TekNavi test drives the new Patria 6X6 with Rally champion Markku Alén.
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Sisu hasn't produced any APCs for 25 years by now. They lost it with Sisu Defence(made og XA-series) in 1996 when state restructured Finnish defence sector. Patria absorbed it 1997 and Sisu Defence ended. For awhile Sisu didn't even make military vehicles. Later they recreated Sisu Defence for new line of military trucks and MRAPs.
Btw, the new 6x6 is manufactured in same factory as AMV in Hämeenlinna.
@@kognak6640You forgot to mention that Sisu nowadays has a "heavy duty" pickup. Every other pickup looks tiny in comparison... 🤣🇫🇮
@@leiflillandt1488 Sisu GTP is the MRAP I mentioned.
if i remember correctly some old sisus had a 18l cat inline 6
Here in Finland the police uses the red light for stopping vehicles and not much else. So if you see a finnish police car behind you flashing red they want you to pull over.
Also the sirens are made so that they are easy to tell apart so you know which emergency vehicle is coming. And I think it also helps you to better tell in which direction they are coming from.
Edit: Also we don't use white as high-vis here due to winter time so the high-vis won't drown in the snowy backround.
Where I am from our Police Vehicles are the only emergency vehicles that have Blue Lights.
In Finland they sell the used ambulances and police cars at auctions. The police vans are either Volkswagens or Mercedes-Benzes. The manufacturer logo in the front grill has been replaced by the symbol of the police, a sword with a lions head, because the loudspeaker is behind the logo and with the new badge, the sound can be heard better.
you can buy those vehicles even in germayn. but you cant run it on the streets with the high-vis stuff on it.
@@vophatechnicus Same in Finland
@@vophatechnicus right but the vehicles are not painted, its a foil, it gets removed before the auction and you buy a pure white or silver vehicle
@@evilmessiah81Aren't they trying to use common colour nuances in EU for police, ambulances, etc since some years.
To that there are older vehicles with other liveries also in service that's why there can be so many different combinations of colours.
@@vophatechnicus In FInland they normally displace those before the auction, but if still on, they need to be dismember those before it can be registered for civil use. But afishals most likely have use for those on new vehicles or as a spare.
6:40 The construction sites use high-vis signals because Finland is pretty dark half the year so everything must be clearly visible in the darkness during the snow storm in the middle of winter and during heavy rain in the late autumn. The yellow stuff is made out of highly reflective tape.
it's actually 2 languages on the sign at 06:25 :) Finnish and Swedish (the 2nd official language in Finland).
Good to mention that usually finnish is the top/first one on the sign, and swedish is second. :) And even that changes if you're in a swedish speaking part of Finland.
@@herm195 In some parts of Finland where there live more Swedish-speaking ppl, the Swedish is at the top and Finnish is second in signs.
"Changed traffic arrangements"
And in the eastern parts of Finland there is also Russian cus there lives a lot of people who speak russian there.
The First ambulance driving midnight with no sirens, explanation is that theyre so loud that could awake other citizens with them... thats why they like to keep the silent peace between 10pm - 12am
Ambulances don't really use sirens in residential areas even in daytime unless they need to. Around here I think they only blip the siren near a busy intersection to give a heads up. Otherwise they get by with only using the lights.
@@blechtic Not sure if I remember right but without siren you have to follow speed limits and with sirens you are going faster.
If transporting a shock patient no sirens.
3:05 The silent ambulance. In Finland the law states that if the ambulance is inside the city limits after 9pm and it is responding to a non life threatening situation. It can not use the sirens during the night....only the lights. This is so that the people living next to the hospital dont have to get up every 20min because there is an ambulance going by.
C'moon guys. The law says nothing like that. It only gives the driver an option to decide when to not use sirens in spesific situations and certain restrictions coming with that.
And nobody wants to listen that noice in the streets more than have to.
Actually law says you have to use lights and sirens always when you are driving emerengy drive. We just think with our brain that its not useful to use them at middle of the night. Our firetrucks and ambulances can make short sirens by pressing horn when lights are on. So when we see that there is cars or pedestrians on the road we just press horn and sirens go on like 5 seconds. But law saying that we cant use sirens on nights is just full bs. It is another way around
Noh niinku sanoi tää pätee suomes mut voi olla että sit 90 luvun jälkeen kun olin palokunnassa nii laki on muuttunu sen jälkee.@@skyforger8613
the police cars has also red lights but if you see that in your mirror it means they want to stop you :D
1:40 Police, Mercedes-Benz Vito (Correction by @Hendrik Dorka)
2:40 Ambulance, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter
4:10 Fire and rescue, Scania P-series (not sure if P340 or not)
8:50 Also an ambulance, but this belongs to Onni-Terveys, privately owned company that works with the city. MB Sprinter (Corrected by @Shajukun)
9:20 Paramedic Field Chief, Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, the smallest model.
11:20 Fire and Rescue, Sisu E-series (Correction by @Stabbs_)
1:40 is not a VW. It is a Mercedes V-Klasse / Vito or Metris in the US. The latest or 3rd generation (W447/V447)
@@hendrikdorka9695 Oh, you are correct, thanks for the correction, I'll fix it.
SISU was early E-series, either E11 or E14 with Cummins M11 or N14
@@stabbs_15 Oh? I'll correct it then, thanks.
@@stabbs_15 E11 So called "Karjaan eemeli" equipped with a cabin made in Karjaa. Some year models had a Renault engine
I can't believe the stuff one does to relax: watches somebody watching our first responder vehicle sounds. 😂
The color of the ambulance can be freely chosen by the operator. The requirements are visibility and that the vehicle is easily recognised as an ambulance. Ambulances are operated by welfare districts, fire departments and private operators. The welfare district coordinates how the ambulances on their area are operated. In one video the smaller ambulance with the green and white battenburg markings is the field command vehicle. It is operated by the EMS field commander and has a mobile command center at the back instead of stretchers. He will also take the on-duty doctor or midwife on the scene if needed.
Its cool that they can choose the colors. I wish police departments had the freedom as well.
That is cool i mean it reconized and it keeps you alert. Wish more places alowed that and other emergency responder branches.
@@yeahnoway111 On the other hand I see the convenience of having a uniform police vehicles. Ambulances are passive official vehicles, where police cars are active official vehicles, if you know what I mean. It is important to just easily recognise ambulances in the traffic, where it is more important to be able to specifically tell the vehicle is a police one.
Hi-viz is big at finland, kids at the daycares always wear hi-viz vests when they move outside in groups. At the countryside the parents regularly make the smallest of the kids wear them outside, when you have 4 hours of sunlight at the winter the kids are visible AF when they come outside. A lot of cyclists wear them, too.
I mean, it gets pretty dark around here
Fun fact . During the 70-80's when I grew up , ambulances in Finlad were mostly chevy and dodge vans .
Pienemmät oli ambulanssikorisia pystylamppu ja W123 Mersuja ja 245 Volvoja ja isommat oli Mersun pakuja.
Hi. In Finland there is mainly three different sounds that emergency vehicle can use as driver sees most usefull for situation.
High Low, Weil and Yelp. Yelp is the one you thought a bit special. Police has only two sounds High Low and Yelp and its switching every 6 second.
Hope this was informative.
That Sisu in this video is E11 or E14 model, using 11- or 14-litre Cummins engine, that's last model with Sisus own cab, after that they used cabs from Renault and now from Mercedes.
Sisu used lots of Cummins engines in 80's and 90's, and E12 model used Mack engine and E18 Caterpillar one, transmissions were made by German ZF-company, American Eaton Fuller or Allison automatic.
Later they used also Volvo powertrains and now Mercedes powertrains, but you can still choose Eaton Fuller too.
Sisu makes their own axles and frames.
Sisus aren't much used for normal boxtruck/semi-truck use, they are used mostly for heavier tasks like earthmoving logging, snowplowing...
Earlier Sisu trucks (60's, 70's, 80's) used wide variety of engines, Valmet, Cummins, Leyland, Rolls Royce.
Sisu makes also military vehicles and Finnish army uses lots of Sisu vehicles.
I was a medic in conscription based service for circa 9 months. We got some emergency driving training as part of the training and legal aspects of it. While driving with just lights on one can basically ignore speed limits some other minor stuff, with lights and siren traffic laws basically do not apply. So the standard practice is not to use siren unless needed to go through red lights or stop signs or to notify traffic to get out of the way.
When I travel to other countries it's always interesting to see the small everyday things that are different. Just like you point out colors, sounds and brands in this video.
If you drive in Finland during the winter, you definitely want Michelin, Continental or Nokian tires because the friction will be pretty low no matter how good your tires are, so any bit of extra traction is a huge bonus. I prefer studded variants but you can use the variant without studs if you really want.
Wait until you've heard the old tri-tone siren on dutch ambulances. I was flabbergasted when I first visited Amsterdam back in 2012 and heard the ambulance thinking it was an ice cream truck!
Good video and good reaction. Hope you'll react to more Finnish emergency videos in the future. You didn't yet see the variety of different police sedan cars like Skodas or VWs that we use here in Finland. When it comes to sirens, the newer emergency vehicles are equipped with US-style piercers and rumblers too. Finnish emergency vehicles use all blue lights but cop cars have one extra red light which indicates that the police is pulling you over. It's very useful feature, because you know instantly if the cop behind you is pulling you over (blue lights + one red) or just trying to get past you (blue lights).
In finland there is four urgency codes for emergencies, which being A, B, C and D. A is the most urgent and D least. A and B's are driven with lights and sirens while C and D are driven without. There is no laws regarding the "sirenless run" it's just a gentleman code to not use them unless really necessary like during the night.
Nice to see you reacting to us 🇫🇮
I'm from Finland 🇫🇮
when my dad taught me to drive. he told me to think of the ambulance siren as "dyyying!, dyyying!" because they don't use the siren unless it's a life or death situation and you get the heck out of the way.
6:17 The signpost is finnish (upper half) and swedish (lower half). The swedish text means "changed traffic arrangement". I don't speak swedish, but german and a bit of danish, so I can guess.
Yes Michelin is french. And they developed the radial tire specially for the Citroen DS IIRC.
Greetings From Finland!
Great channel you got!
You can actually hear the studded winter tires very well scratching the dry pavement on the police vans and ambulance in the first three videos at least.🎉
In finland we call code 1 i think c and code 3 is alpha and code 2 i think berta. And yes they sell them to the public or just scrap it or sell it to somekind of private company.
As a Dane who have been to Finland....at 1:43...No it's not winter....could be late spring or early fall or actually just a normal grey summer day. (just teasing my Finnish brothers and sisters)
Cool video!! I’m sure you’d like to watch more videos from Finland because of the crazy amount of different vehicles we have here. Police cars are all the same, no matter where you go and they have a nation wide jurisdiction. Firetrucks are basically the same brand (Scania/MB/Sisu/Volvo) everywhere but the variety of colors and different types of sirens depend on the department and even the firestations within that said department.
It's fun to see you get excited over things like... Emergency vehicle sirens. 😃
in the trade/vocational/technical school i go to (finland), we have a fully equipped ambulance that the paramedic students use in their studies. i am not sure if that is one of the retired ones but might be. (not to drive around but to get to know what the ambulance is from inside)
I think Nokia and Michelin are the most popular tires in Finland because the make hands down the best studded winter tires in the world. Michelin might even beat Nokia on that. Sisu is a Finnish vehicle brand that makes trucks and military vehicles. Check it out.
Random thing.. but you were wondering if it's winter in the beginning. You can hear a rustling when the cars drive by; studs on pawement. Certainly winter time, when it's mandatory to have winter tires in Finland. Police and ambulances are mostly using studded tires, even though it's not really snowy in the video.
The siren has two different sounds to be easier to notice it, when it comes near and voice is slowly getting stronger. If the same voice is slowly getting stronger, it may be too late, when you realize it.
Sirens are usually turned off in many European countries to not wake up sleeping people and also because the blue light is already so bright and can be easily seen in distance. It's when running a red light, roundabouts for people to hear and make the roundabout clear. Most red light crosses are gone in my city... like four of five of them have been changed to roundabouts to make better flow of traffic. It's mostly due to when Volvo ends their day shift when the city gets completely stocked.
In Finland, every emergency vehicle has its own siren sound. For example, a police fire truck and an ambulance have slightly different siren sounds.
Information about the vehicle livery:
Police cars and fire engines only have certain types of liveries, etc. These are prescribed by law.
How ever, ambulances can have any kind of livery. For example, I could start an ambulance company and paint all the vehicles brown. (but that would be stupid)
And yes, they do sell old emergency responce gear.
private individuals can buy these emergency cars at auction, usually the colors are also included in ambulances, they do not have to be removed by law
Colors not but lights and ID must,
I don't know what i do with my life while watching this
I've never paid attention to the sounds they make, but gotta love your enthusiasm.
In Europe they just run the light at night, the blue light it is enough to mean Emergency. They respect the sleep of others !!!
Different in some European countries, here in Germany an emergency vehicle with just lights but no siren does not mean that you have to get out of the way, for example if they move in a convoy the vehicles will all have the lights switched on but no siren. The first vehicle of the convoy will have a blue flag on the roof and the rearmost one a green flag. Legally this means they are to be considered as one vehicle and you are not allowed to squeeze in the convoy with your car, for example on the motorway. If you overtake, you must overtake all of them in one go. But often police, ambulance or fire trucks will switch off the siren when traffic allows for it to lower the noise pollution. They switch it back on when encountering other cars or intersections of course.
@@KaterChris Totaly agree like in Portugal some of this. But it is illega to roll with the blue lights on without a emergency !!! The driver get a ticket to pay if some other force detect is only to pass tru the traffic !!!
Even with distinctive sirens people still can't seem to get it into their heads to move over. Personally I'd have a massive bass voice blaring out 'move the f*ck over!!'.
I swear whenever there a video of emergency vehicles, people always get annoyed and hot-headed when they see cars on the road not moving over in time.
Why do people keep pretending that humans are 100% perfect? This is also why I hate most people on YT comments, they're usually disrespectful and want to murder drivers over little things.
*"Personally I'd have a massive bass voice blaring out 'move the f*ck over!!'"*
You would get sued and fired from your job. If you're yelling at innocent drivers during your job, you deserve to get fired and also get complaints from people.
I got told by the firetruck behind our car once (waiting for a green light, they were obviously returning back to their station): “Hey girl, dont throw your cigarette out from your window, wildfire warning is issued!”. Scared the life out of me for a second, it was so loud & sudden, but as soon as I came back to my body, I lifted my ashtray out of the window, indicating Im prepared. Firefighter Funnybone just quipped back: “Good girl, but you really should quit.”. I just waved back like, yep, I know. This isnt even the weirdest interaction Ive had with an emergency vehicle, but memorable nevertheless :)
For Michelin it's indeed a french company.
Their HQ are in Clermont Ferrand and they have a some test facilities in Europe which the most known are : Ladoux in France, Almeda in Spain and Rovaniemi in Finland
As a Develon (formerly known as Doosan) fanatic it absolutely made my day that you mentioned it🤩🤟
One of the things I noticed in this video was gas/petrol at €2.61/L (=USD10.12/gallon)!
yeah its bad over here.
I'm currently paying $2 p/L for diesel West of Brisbane , Australia
@@vekssi is not bad. Is normal. We don't move big distances and public transportation is well extensive and top notch. Plus electrification is going well.
@@Fwdking Yeah but that's AUD.
@@janis7077 still works out about 50c USD more a litre than Americans pay
Colours on the ambulances depend a lot on region, that bright orange and white pattern is used in city of Helsinki, yellow and orange is used in region of Uusimaa, the one with little bit of green on it (EKU71) is EMS supervisor of Keski-Uusimaa region.
11:35 susu built in Finland
Most often the reason behind no sirens are either to not wake people up or because there isn't much traffic so the cars that are active on the road can easily spot the blue lights and the emergency vehicle can easily drive past them. Atleast that's how it works in Sweden but in serious occasions sirens are turned on during night time.
7:34
Yes you're correct, it's a container filled with used tires situated behind a tire changing shop, I live in Helsinki so I recognize almost every place in this video :D
There are sirens here in the UK that use White noise as well in some sirens to give far better directional detection .
In australia they sometimes dont run the siren if there is someone in the ambulance. They will flash the lights but the siren sound can make the patient panic and make it worse/harder to treat them. Atleast thats what i was told :)
8:39 Can we appreciate the white Mercedes for moving to the side so gracefully.
Bigger Ambulances are First aid, then there comes these smaller ones ( 9:31 ) That includes a doctor thats more capable to help or come first to spot. ambulances are also big incase they need to escort someone to the hospital
Yes the police have auctions where old police vehicles are sold ofcourse without police equipment. Ambulances are sold to auto dealers at least. Some are taken to other countries as to Ukraine just a while back.
6:40 About the roadwork / constructions signs. They are not white as we have snow cover for several months every year. And darkness. We really need something that stands out during both summer and winter.
10:00 I suppose they remove the colorful stickers before they sell those vehicles. So they are one or maybe two colors when they are sold.
11:20 Your first pronunciation of Sisu (local to Finland) was almost spot on.
The Finnish siren is a weird but cool variant on the Swedish siren. Have a listen to that one as well :)
Finnish sirens are indeed weird, especially the ones that sound like a toy. They're better and cooler than the sirens used in Denmark. Danish sirens are stupid.
Just found your channel, and I like it! There's many other videos of Finnish Emergency Vehicles that have much more 'rarer' vehicles, and I also recommend watching them because the variety of sirens has gotten A LOT wider in last years. I hope I'll see you reacting to those ones too! :)
And also text written on the street signs are 2 official languages of Finland, the swedish and naturally the finnish. Finnish is usually the top/first phrase and the second is swedish.
Btw the videos I meant were quite short, about 3-5 mins each, the Helsinki collections are really good. A video of you reacting to couple of these in one go would be as good as this, maybe even better. ;)
6:10 You are right. It is VW T6 . Greatings from Hannover. (Hometown of VW Nutzfahrzeuge / commercial vehicles)
Hi IWrocker I'm a big fan from Finland. It was fun to see an american react to some finnish emergency vehicles. Keep ut the good work.
One thing you should know, there are alot of swedish people who lives in Finland. Not sure if you caught it but at 6:22 in this video, where the ambulans are followed by a police car. On the sign above the speed limit, there are diffrent language. First one on top are the finish, then it is on swedish afterwards. "Ändrade trafikarrangemang" is the swedish language.
Michelin do make some great tires, but atleast for winter tyres, I think Nokian have them beat, as they should considering Nokian is a Finnish company and well, they should know a thing or two about winter conditions xD
Thank you for reviewing Finnish emergency vehicles.
The emergency vehicle drivers on a mission usually have only the lights going (the blue flashers will catch one's eye quite effectively), unless there's an immediate need to get the attention of traffic ahead or claim absolute passage priority in an intersection. That has the effect of cutting down noise in heavily populated areas and shocking distracted drivers when needed.
in my country (Slovenia) and I believe in the vast majority of Europe, the vehicle warning lights colors are :
amber - exceptional size cargo, municipal security, road maintenance or on-the -road help services, security services. etc.
blue: police vehicles, ambulances, fire department vehicles
blue&red: police escort vehicles (also on otherwise unmarked vehicles)
and, in urban areas at night, sirens are normally not used, unless really necessary.... many times even at daylight except for short bursts in front of intersections
10:30
They remove ALL the stickers and emergency equipment before selling. Basically you are buying emergency version of the vehicle. You are allowed to change flashers into spots or extra highs. But you are getting the vehicle in the base color under the stickers and modified engine.
I think the 1st reason for different looking vinyls on the ambulances is that area hospitals "buy" ambulance services from some private companies in addition to their own fleet. And yes, old ambulances are somtimes auctioned, but the decals and blue lights must be removed before civilian use.
Where I live the ambulances are usually yellow with dark green highlights, I've noticed that each area seems to have it's own colors for ambulances especially, the 2-3 letters on the vehicle indicate which area it's from like HE(number) for Helsinki and we have PH(number) for Päijät-häme
In Germany, the vehicles get sold to public too. The names and blue lights have to be removed (or covered in public), same with the reflective parts of the design.
This is a note from law of Finland:
Fire truck´s base colour is red. Rescue containers and trailers (over 750kg) are red for suitable parts.
Red basecolour´s reference shades used RAL3000, RAL 3001, RAL3002 or RAL 3020.
To getting more visiblity nowadays used Hi-Vis colours RAL3024 or RAL3026
Visual stripings are allways white RAL 9010 or yellow RAL1018, RAL1021 or RAL1023. Visual stripings area must be smaller than base colour.
Airport rescue truc´s base colour is yellow RAL1018 that comes from international civil airtrafic contracts.
Finnish Defence Forces rescue truc, container or trailer can be painted camouflage colours.
Warning lights are blue on whole EU region, only police, border guards and customs use single flashing red light when they want order car to stop.
Back in time I bought an old ambulance in Finland. Great bought - Chevy G20 platform and nice body with an easy repair. Served me well plenty of years as a base for me and my dogs on the road between my things in MP K9 unit and other activities.
My county in the UK tend to sell their retired fire appliances to county Kerry F&RS in the Republic of Ireland, or to private 'preservation' buyers, or they donate them to third- and second-world countries, and to war-torn countries such as Ukraine. 🇬🇧 🇺🇦
And personally I think Pirelli make the best boots for my car. Italian tyres on a German car. Perfect. 🇮🇹 🇩🇪
I think most emergency vehicles in Finland have 3 different siren sounds and they select different depending on the situation. I think one is used near intersections and one is for the highways. However, there are no standardized sounds so every emergency vehicle sounds a bit different. I think about 40 years ago it was typical that all ambulances had one sound and firetrucks another but there are no such themes nowadays.
As for the color scheme of ambulances and firetrucks: they typically use reflector tape (all the white/grey looking stuff is reflector material which reflects maybe 80-90% of the incoming light directly back. Nowadays ambulances are mostly yellow and firetrucks are mostly orange. Police cars are always mostly white with dark blue/nearly black thick stripes.
All emergency vehicles use blue signal lights and any blue lights in civilian vehicles are strictly forbidden (blinking or static).
The blue lights are always used if the emergency vehicles do not follow the usual traffic rules but the siren is used by the decision of the driver only. If it's deemed unnecessary for safety, they will switch it off not to cause extra noise.
Interesting video!
A small comment from Finland,
Indeed the emergency vehicles are all very different, with a lot of different variations.
And sometimes we see "old" emergency vehicles sold for civils, but most of the textures are removed from them, in order not to be confused to an emergency vehicle.
And a few of the vehicles seen on this video are old, and not in use anymore.
I’ve noticed a new tone being used by Queensland Ambulance Service. It is a lower frequency sound that is added in to the original siren because lower frequencies travel further. It’s called a rumbler siren.
Nokian is the native tire manufacturer in Finland and make in my opinion the best winter tires.
Finland has mostly Volkswagen and Mercedes benz Police vehicles. New ones are Mercedes benz ones.
They use mostly blue light cause red light is used as STOP sign. They use red light to show that target vehicle needs to stop.
Nokia is finnish tire brand and most famous in Finland
6:15. The top two lines on the sign are in Finnish and the bottom two lines are in Swedish. It looked line it said Ändrade trafikarrangemang which is Swedish and means Changed traffic arrangements.
in England there is a special team called HART , part of the ambulance service who do difficult and dangerous rescues and have rafts and all terrain ambulances to cover difficult extractions other a reagons use different names
HE201 is based in Helsinki, the siren it's using as it passes under the bridge, I believe, is a Howler. Some emergency vehicles in the UK, like Critical Care Cars, also use that siren. Like the US, Fire and Ambulance in Finland come under one banner; in the case of Helsinki, it comes under the Helsingin Kaupungin Pelastuslaitos (Helsinki Fire and Rescue Service).
I am from tammisari Finland, thank you for making this video bro
Retired emergency vehicles are sold to public. The colors are typically just plastic tape and the underlying vehicle is typically pure white.
Sisu is a truck brand from Finland, you don't see them much outside Scandinavia.
The yellow and red on the pylons and traffic signs is done in the Nordic countries with the long winters in mind, these colours stand out much better in the snow than white and red.
Ex service vehicles are sold either via auctions or via second hand car dealers, but generally all markings which are in general vinyl are taken off when they're sold to private persons, only leaving the base colour, either white, red or yellow. Also many used ambulances and fire trucks are exported either to the less wealthy European countries like Romania, Moldavia and Ukraine or to Africa to further serve as emergency vehicles.
It's even illegal in the Netherlands, and I think more countries in Europe to have stripes etc on your car making them look like a police car from your own country, this means I can have an old American police cruiser in colours and markings but without the emergency lights as it does not look like a Dutch police car, but I can't have a white car whit the same red and blue stripe pattern as Dutch police cars have. This to prevent criminals from pulling people over as fake police officers using fake police cars, therefore it's also illegal to own a contemporary police uniform as a citizen being not in the police department.
Several years ago you could regognise what kind of emergency vehicle you heard by the sirens only. Today, if you are interested (or curious) you haave to see the vehicle.
Also most emergency vehicles turn sirens off before reaching target address, like silent aproach. And after some ”karen” complained about not using sirens at night and going thru lights emergency vehicles today haave sirens always on. So if you live next to a hospital or firestation sleeping at night is only an option, not a guarantee.
They sell those at end of their life. My father had a old volkswagen fire van, transporter, when I was kid. There is some private ambulances in Finland so that is why there is some variation in colouring. Sisu is finnish truck manufacter.
Fire engines in UK have a variety of sounds abd when busy or lots of pedestrians around they also sound the normal horn for extended periods and it is very loud!
I believe it's standard practice to remove all the vinyls and most of the specialised equipment from an emergency-services vehicle, if it is sold on after retirement. Of course you'd be buying a well-maintained but *very* hard-used vehicle. Probably a lot of ambulances are taken up by healthcare providers for more sedate duties, such as taxiing around the elderly and infirm; they would get a repaint and new vinyls for this duty, but might retain features designed to make moving patients easier or to accommodate portable life-support equipment.
My landlord has a couple of old fire-engines in his yard, which I don't think have moved or even started their engines in years. They appear to have been retired from rural volunteer-firefighter services. One of them looks like it's from the 1960s or thereabouts.
6:15 - the sign text is in Finnish in the upper half and Swedish in the lower half, so that partially explains the amount of text on many Finnish signs.
If you want to learn more about finland. You should look into Åland island, its an island thats autonomous and demilitarised region of Finland. Its a really special place. And if you want to see how the emergency vehicles looks like there you can search for blåljus åland. there is a couple of videos on youtube.
Finland has the "normal" vehicles ambulance usually is orange/yellow, police white/blue and fire truck red/silver. Then there is like 3 or 4 more ambulances and 2 more police. Firefighters also have 2 or 3 more cars
first 3 clips.. you can tell it's either late fall or late spring by the sound of the studded tires on the vehicle...
You can hear there Swedish Standby siren, Sarco SOS 106 siren and some newer one. That water tanker is Sisu. They sell good shaped and retired ammbulances and cop vans to people in auctions. Code numbers, blue lights and siirens must be stripped. Fire trucks are firstly recycled to volunteer fire departments.
The comment about Tires you made.
Michelin, Continental, Nokian, Bridgestone are the top 4 more common tires, Though Nokian is not as common as others.
What you said about Michelin CrossClimate... I'd rate them "trash" but I admit that they are surprisngly functional tire for what it is.
CrossClimate is great tire when there isn't much snow or ice during the lifecycle of said tire but if there is (like in Michigan) I'd go for...
Continental Icecontact
Nokian Snowproof
Bridgestone Blizzak
Michelin X-ice Snow
Of course, Those tires aren't that good on summer use as the name suggests. hence having 2 sets of tires in areas that get regular snow is recommended.
The sirens that sound like a Lazer gun are designed for traffic as they get into other vehicles better.
Yes, Michelin tyres are French and were originally a bicycle tyre manufacturer.
About those Tires, many Finns use Nokia tire sets, and yeah Retired emergency vehicles are sold to public use but all the tapes and beacons/lights are ripped off or deactivated
In the UK used Ambulances and police cars are sold at auction with all the signs and wraps removed just get the plain van. Fire engines are passed to other countries who may not have any decent fire engines
The fascinating languages are both Finnish and Swedish.
In finland they do sell these but with sirens and bluelights disabled and texts, logos and most of the color strips removed
Not sure if someone mentioned it already but in Finland the ambulance livery changes based on the region of Finland you are in. I believe the ones in the video are from Helsinki region, here in Turku you see High-vis green mixed with yellow. I'm sure there is a good reason why they look different.
No other reason than that the operator can choose their livery.