2003 - GREEN GODDESS RESPONDING, LIVERPOOL
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- Опубликовано: 13 янв 2016
- Green Goddess crewed by Royal Navy personnel during the National Firefighters strike of 2003 responding from Aigburth Road TA Centre, Liverpool with a Police escort. The Police Astra wasnt hanging about!
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OH WOWEEE!!!!! Nice to finally see a video of a Green Goddess responding! Gorgeous truck.
Love the Astra wizzing about on two tone horns as well there.
Love that two tone. Better than these electronic things in use now. German engines still run martin horns.
Was a Green Goddess driver during the Fire Strike 2002-3 and had a great time bring back great memories serving the British public and community
Thanks for all you did. I know how lonely it is to have a tiny little foam extinguisher on a burning transformer and preparing to meet your maker. Of course we HAD to have a fire during the strikes. Seeing a jet of flame coming straight at you with this tiny little bottle wondering how the fuck it'll do anything, but you have to try because there are 10 people in there. Running back to the canteen to get a wet towel to try and stop the smoke with this jet of roaring flames coming out of the transformer room. I have never been so scared but yet so calm tripping the circuit breakers to try and stop more fires and hope and pray that the generators take over. I didn't think I would survive. The heat and the pain, I can't describe it.
The Navy kept these old ladies in tip top immaculate condition. they were well looked after .
One of the blue lights didn't work...... just saying
@@terrancedactielle5460it only has one, what you think is the other is a bell.
Love this video, cannot stop watching it!!
The Green Goddess sounds superb as they always do with a "Proper" siren, however the coppers have a really shit, wet fart siren. Get a proper siren coppers!!
Fantastic!
What I hate the most is that the video turns of just when the Doppler effect from the Astra kicks in
I am very seriously considering starting an online petition (UK Government and Parliament) to get the traditional two-tone siren reinstated on all blue light emergency vehicles, that are presently operating within this country
The original British two-tone siren is far superior to that ubiquitous imported American one, that frequently alternates between wow-o-wow-o-wow-o-wow and weeaaooooooooouuuwww.
I agree we used to have them here in Ireland
They still use them in Italy, albiet with a higher pitch, and with a bigger difference between the tones, I think it's a full fifth. I would argue the Italian is a bit more musical, but the old british one was great too, miles better than the current crap.
Definitely do it. That would be great. Trouble is, it would not be cheap
A proper British vehicle, crewed by the best armed services in the world. Make me proud of what we used to be. All gradually disappearing.
Amazing, I have a scale model on my layout❤
It fucks up my OCD to see the single blue light off to the side like that! I know it can't be placed centrally because of the roof ladder, but at least put another on the other side, to even it up!! 🤣🤣🤣
Sorry about the OCD! Look carefully and you will see on the left is the old bracket formerly used to house the hand-operated bell, which has been replaced by the two-tones.
@@clivebuckley6511 Which were replaced by the electronic sirens
The police car was supposed to be leading the green goddess, but he went the wrong way 😂😂🤣🤣
It wasn't a police car
It was a paramedic vehicle
Any idea what horns the Astra used?
Fiamm compact air horns. From the 1980s made for motorbikes or smaller vehicles with less mounting space. ruclips.net/video/WZCo6eMvnJw/видео.html
Nice video
Why did the astra turn left and the appliance turn right?
To turn round probably you see the appliance bounce over the kerb
@@Mbard333
Yeah, I wouldn't fancy throwing a Mk3 Astra over a central reservation that high!
The Goddess would have ended up towing the Astra to the scene?!!
@@residentelect probably
Blocking traffic from the other direction
The Rx7 roadie BURPLE RX7 cheers
1:01 paramedic car
Comedy gold, slowest emergency ever, and the first car out that went left at start finishes it of nicely rofl :D
That was during a fire fighters strike
police escort, why did police car go 1 way and appliance the other then ?
The Police driver obviously used a turn through point but the driver of the Goddess bounced over the kerbs.
@@TheDrummie1 I went to block the road so the appliance could merge onto the road turning right, it was great for overtime ;-)
@@johnrobbo69 I was a FF in mid 70s- 80s in Belfast, then joined the Police (RUC) retired on my 50th birthday 13 years ago ( 19/9/07)
Please stay safe my friend and the same to your colleagues, my brothers and sisters.
I would suspect the non power steering and poor turning circle of the Goddess plus it's off road capacity and chunky wheels made crossing the reservation quicker than going to the crossing point or mini roundabout the other way and taking 10 minutes to do a 20 point U turn! The police car being faster, lower and more manoeuvrable took the conventional route to get to go the right way
@@TheDrummie1 Did you commit police brutality
Those two tones are slow it sounds better if you speed up the video to 1.25x
never understood why the navy, army and airforce lads weren't allowed to use the normal fire trucks. I remember them all over but always slow took ages to get to like 40mph. Also not built for house fires I bet.
Well they had old green godesses in stock and they couldent have normal fire engines because the stations shut down
Also the 1950s Green Goddess wasn't constructed to modern safety standards. They tended to be top heavy and if turned over far enough at speed the timber framed cab was crushed (not to mention no safety belts). In India trucks are still built that way!
Regular appliances were locked up
The unions stated that if the forces used the normal fire-trucks, they would black them and refuse to use them themselves in the future.
@@stephenwalker6823 if that's true then the fireservice should be ashamed and held accountable for all the lives lost over the time.
These men served their country for more hours and less pay and more danger then conventional firemen. Says it all.
Why do you think they get less pay?
Sounds a lot like the volunteer fire service here in America. (I am a volunteer firefighter myself)
@@hosedragger-204 I’m pretty sure it’s called “Auxiliary fire service”, idk I’m from Britain
Better than the Scania crap they are using now!
Scania is cool it saves lives
crap? its the highest form of firefighting engineering we've ever made lol
Scannias are better than a green goddess
@@oscarosullivan4513 In your dreams
@@EnidAgnusDei The scannia is designed for modern day fire fighting