American Reacts to Massive Polish FireTruck Convoy Arrives in Sweden to Fight Big Fire
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Thank you Poland, from Sweden.
From Poland with Love! We`re glad that our Firefighter heroes could help you out :)
No worries mate
We hope our guys will help you out!
POLSKA GUROM !!!
Welcome 😂
Polish firefighters are among the best equipped and trained in the world. When going to large fires or taking part in rescue operations, e.g. after earthquakes, they are prepared fully autonomously, they have their own logistic and medical facilities so as not to burden local authorities additionally. The best of the best and the best equipment adapted to the situation are sent to operations outside Poland. In a situation of mass threat, there is nothing better than to hear... hello, can you speak English?, I'm from Polish rescue crew
shame that they are so massively underpaid
@@echoes222 yes in Poland people that are in the service departments like army ,police , military police, Dr , fire are doing it for the passion for it not for the money
We had massive fires that summer. Many countries sent their fire brigades to help. The Polish one was the biggest I think. Thank you everybody for showing up
so the Polish Fire Brigades have got the receip for energy they used from swedish authorities after all. Never more any help for you Swedes.
Bro I just wanna tell u that we send a little amount of firetrucks to Sweden... At all
But we sent our best equipment...
And then we stay with our old but gold firetrucks
We love Poland remember this and once again thank you Poland
Zawsze gotowi do pomocy!💪
@@kierownik_namiotu always with you
🇵🇱❤️🇸🇪
Bardzo miło ze strony szwedzkiej straży pożarnej, że wyszła pozdrowić polskich kolegów. Wzrusza międzynarodowa solidarność.❤
I think that most interesting thing about this operation is that they had everything they needed for the whole time they were in Sweden and by that I mean: food, fuel and shelter. They can go into action without the help of outside world.
I'm Dutch, but I live in Poland. The Polish firefighters are amazing!
And that car at the beginning looks like an Opel Vectra. The pickup near the end looks like an Isuzu.
As above it is an opel vectra opc (2.8l v6 turbo)
Beat me to it with the blue car. Although it could be a VXR version 🤷🏼♂️
100% isuzu
Isuzu D-Max
You left netherlands for Poland 😮
A total of 144 firefighters and 44 cars went from Poland to Sweden, and they had to cross the Baltic Sea to get there :-) They were transported by ferry for free by Unity Line from Szczecin.
Ze Świnoujścia
No i co wynika z tej Twojej wypowiedzi? że było ich za mało, że za dużo aut? że to nie potrzebne? Czy co ? Bo nie rozumiem.
I am proud of our Polish Firefighters.....greetings from Poland....
This is what civilised people do -they help one another and not try to destroy or steal from one another. Poland and Sweden both rock!!!
Yes there was some really big fires that year, about 62.000 acres went up in flames.
The Polish Firefighters came as a self-sustaining unit, they brought everything they needed themselves. Apart from the Fire Vehicles they also had sleeping quarters, toilets / showers / washing rooms, a mobile kitchen with cooks and food for at least a week (or 2?) and everything else they possibly might need.
You could follow their progress in newspapers and social media as they moved up North in Sweden towards the fires. The Swedish Agency for Co-Ordination of Emergency Situation on the other hand had no clue at all of where the Polish Firefighters were. The Press asked them about something on a Monday or Tuesday if I remember it right, and the answer from that Agency was that "We don't know anything about their whereabouts, we don't know if the Polish Firefighters even have arrived in Sweden yet". The Firefighters arrived at the fire site the following day, but the Co-Ordination Agency was still totally oblivious. I could write a lot more about this, but I'll stop here and let others give you more details. Cheers / B.
Sooo cool to see countries helping each other, instead of fighting. I grew up in Poland, not far from the Białowierza forest that used to stretch over most of the main European continent, now it’s wild, original parts are only in Poland and Belarus. I’m guessing that the Polish firefighters have slow summers, and busy summers. I remember winters in Poland, some years we would be inundated with snow, others we would get nothing but rain and slush.
Well, that's the whole point of the international GFFF-V Moduls within the civil protection
I am surprised. I always thought Sweden had a well-developed bureaucracy. But yes, the Polish State Fire Service (PSP) and the Volunteer Fire Services (OSP) are something we can be proud of. We have about 32000 PSP firefighters (you saw them in Sweden) + 260000 volunteer firefighters (in 16000 OSP fire-stations).
@@piotrmoskal_pl - The well-developed bureaucracy was probably the reason why the Co-Ordination Agency didn't know that the Polish Firefighters had arrived and nearly at their destination - If the Agency doesn't get an official notification (from Poland?) it's only hearsay where the Firefighters are.
Sweden did have a well organised Firefighting corps some years back, but funding cutbacks and other ideas about saving money has forced many areas to go down from fulltime Firefighters to Volunteers, and the size of each district has grown bigger too. One reason why politicians thought it was ok to cut down on the Firefighting forces is that Sweden doesn't have all that many forest fires. It's usually several years between the fires, and in most cases they are rather small and easy to contain and put out. Big fires like this happens maybe once every 20-30 year.
Cheers / B.
@@mbo191
Where do you get this from? Do you have any more intel to this? I'm just curious.
The swedish Agency isn't really managing the responses but the ERCC. Despite of that I highly doubt they generally didn't know where the polish forces where, since they tell the ERCC where exactly they need help. There are special liason officers for this...
I addition, every fire station on the way knew the poles were coming, because they actually welcomed them.
It was in 2018, this year the Polish convoy was going again, but this time to Greece. Polish firefighters and rescuers are practically everywhere where help is needed, this year they were also in Turkey after the earthquake.
also russia 2010
They arrived by ferry from Poland to Trelleborg in southern sweden. Here they formed up the convoy and set out on their 1000km (620 Miles) journey to where the fires where. Ofc they got a firemans salute (hoses spraying) from the local firedepartment when they rolled out, and the convoy had people lining the streets, waving, all the way.
I filmed the entire convoy rolloing out of town (police had closed off the streets to let them out in one long convoy, so they where'nt spread out like in this video).
Could You show that video?
@@meecowhy83 sure, i could upload it and link it. It's not stellar, and it's 2 clips from the intersection where the highway stars, so no firemans salute visible
czcams.com/video/_rgLWiFpjsk/video.html @@meecowhy83
Yeah, we had massive forest fires that year, and the Poles sent a huge contingent of firefighters to help. It was particularly interesting to see how any fire stations, police stations and so on that they passed actually formed up to line the road to greet them.
Edit: Ah, as indeed is shown right at the start!
Your reactions are incredible. Love and respect from Poland.
9:05 - That pickup truck is an Isuzu D-Max. That generation of D-Max shared the same platform with the previous generation Chevy Colorado pickup truck.
this is the GFFFV:
"GFFFV is an English abbreviation that stands for Ground Forest Fire Fighting using Vehicles. Currently, as part of the European Union Civil Protection Mechanism, Poland has six such modules, specialized in extinguishing forest fires, which are stationed in the cities of: Kraków, Białystok, Poznań, Olsztyn, Szczecin and Wrocław.
Of these 6 modules, 3 are permanently available and can go on a foreign mission within a few hours of being dispatched.
Each module is self-sufficient: in addition to the typical extinguishing equipment used in forest fires, firefighters also have logistical resources: tents, a field kitchen, a communications center and everything needed to set up a temporary base of firefighters in the field"
those groups are seen in video, there are quite numerous and well equipped :)
as for me the huge respect goes for that "can go on a foreign mission within a few hours of being dispatched"
The blue car on the beginning of the video is en Opel Vectra, probably GTS 3,2 litre V6, similar to Saturn Aura in US
Everywhere around those massive forest fires we had, people were lining up along the roads to welcome and show our gratitude to all those wonderful godsent angels in firetrucks from all over Europe. South/Mid Sweden was being eaten up by these fires. They came from Norway, Denmark, Poland, and Germany, and even as far as Italy, I believe. It was a party of fire truck sirens and horns, wherever they arrived! Thanks to all those wonderful firefighters from all over!
This was the European Union's emergency response coordination centre that sent out the biggest emergency/ rescue operation in European unions history. Whit Poland, France, Portugal, Lithuania, Germany, Norway and other countries helping Sweden with its wildfires and they really did a great job helping and I hope Sweden one day can give that help back.
There were people out on the streets in every city, every little town, on every bridge greeting all the firefighters coming to help. People were standing along the roads with flags, waving and every fire station they passed had their trucks out, light on and some even raised their ladder truck to max and sprayed water in an arch to say welcome and thanks for the help.
European countries can nag a lot about different things between countries but this time I think the European Union really showed how good it can be with the cooperation between many countries. In times of crisis, it felt good to see friends showing up to help. And every country that sent help, and every person that came to help can really be proud of what they did for Sweden and how they represented their own country in Sweden.
It has NOTHING to do with UE, but a lot with a simple, human decency. Haiti is not in EU, yet our firefighters went there with everything they've had.
@@cathulhu3772 Sweden got help through the European Union's emergency response coordination centre. Then countries in EU sent the help that they could. many countries help in different conflicts and catastrophes but in this case, the request for help was through the EU and therefore it has to do with the EU. That does not take away any glory from the countries that decided to help out, because EU, every country and every individual did a great job.
Eu sucks ! This is crazy marxists experyment
I'm 50 years old. I remember when my country was in crisis in the 1980s. Everything was on ration cards, from food to clothes to cigarettes.
I remember when "gifts" were brought to us from various countries, that's what we called them. We also received such gifts from the USA (I remember such terribly salty yellow cheese, it tasted terrible :-) I was 10 years old)
A large truck arrived at the school and clothes were unloaded, so everyone could come and take what they needed. I remember it was cold.
Interestingly, communist propaganda on TV said that 10,000 were sent. sleeping bags for the homeless in the US... well. Even I, as a child, understood that there was some dissonance between what people were talking about and what they were saying.
In Poland, in addition to the state fire brigade, there is also a volunteer brigade.
In every larger town there are groups of people who gather and help people free of charge. Whether it's a fire, a traffic accident, a cat in a tree or hornets.
Volunteer firefighters are the pillar of local communities. They also sometimes organize local events or help with religious ceremonies.
Vehicles or equipment are sponsored by municipalities or the state.
In the last few elections, municipalities with high turnout received a new vehicle from the state.
I live in the western part of Poland. Until 1945 it was part of Germany.
The first Poles settled these areas in 1945, and in my town, as soon as the settlers arrived, the first volunteer fire brigades were established.
I assume no lights or sirens for firefighters' personal vehicles in Europe? Cuz that's actually allowed where I'm at.
@@johnarat9618 I can only tell you how it works in Poland. Volunteer firefighters are notified by text message or siren from the fire station. Of course, the type of sound is information about what event is taking place. I know there is a sound code when they want to party :-).
Cars are provided by the municipality or state. The quality of the equipment depends on the wealth of the commune. I live near the river, so there is also a water rescue and divers section.
In July 2018, due to hot and dry weather, 50 huge forestfires erupted pretty much at the same time in Sweden demanding 7000 efforts by local and international fire services. The fires were mostly located to the regions of Dalarna, Jämtland, Gävleborg and Härjedalen (Basically the entire middle part of Sweden). 25k hectares = 62k acres of forest were destroyed.
We are proud of ours firefighters❤. Greetings from Poland:)
Polish Firefighetrs are like Overwatch. "We're here to help".
1:22 - The blue car is what appears to be an Opel Vectra C OPC - 2.8 V6Twin Turbo with 280 HP (you can tell by the exhaust tips and color typical fro OPCs models)
You just make my day with "firebus 🤣" that was evaquation bus and transport for fireman from poland to sweden and back because not all of them fit in firetrucks
Yes the firetrucks standing still is The city of Falun, Sweden firedepartment. I used to live 100 m from that station. That day I was standing 400m from this place and taking photos.
The Blue Opel is a Vectra, the color & the twin exhausts give it away as VXR model in the UK
Spec 2.8 V6 Turbo 24v. 280hp
In continental Europe this model is VECTRA OPC.
Couple years ago polish police group SPEED has them as chase cars/video-radars.
How Wojtek (not that fameus bear) became a firefighter. This is the title of a short children's poem from the 1950s for t oddlers 5-6 years old. At that time, every little boy wanted to wear a uniform in the future, but in Polish reality, wearing a soldier's or policeman's uniform was not very welcome in the community, because these were oppressive formations of the communist regime. Therefore, of all the uniformed formations, the fire brigade had the greatest respect. Hence, every few villages had a volunteer fire brigade. By day, a farmer, and when a fire breaks out, a fireman, was often the way to becoming a professional firefighter
Interesting historic background.
The white pickup at the end was an Isuzu D Max. Pretty rare sight.
The summer of 2018 was really hot and dry and there were several forest fires. The one the Poles went to was the largest and it also had the problem of there being an military shooting range in the area and the fire set of some undetonated ammunition so the firefighters couldn't enter that area. They did experiment with dropping a bomb on it and it worked. The rumour says that if the wind had change and the fire had threatened a town in the area they would have tried more bombs to stop the fire.
Also Renault Magnum until 2013 can be equipped with MACK V8 engine. Polish Fire Response they full independent on the ground: food, water, power, sleep conteners...
You should look into old Jelcz firetrucks (or trucks in general) from Poland. You don't see them much anymore but they were cool too!
Well Now Jelcz is Mostly Military truck but Yes they are beast
amateur fire station near me has Jelcz and Star trucks
The black SUV at 01:43 is a Toyota Prado, the blue car is an Opel (from the GM ownership era) although it could be an Englishman in a Vauxhall (same thing, badge engineered) Glad you're calling MAN emm ayy enn, and not man. It stands for Masjienfabriek Auf Nuremburg (Machine factory of Nuremburg.)The white pickup at 09:10 is an Isuzu.
The first metallic bleu car is an Opel Vectra GTS, possibly an OPC spec.
Yeah that fire was kind of wild, Swedish Air Force even dropped some bombs on it to blast out the oxygen 💥
This was huge back in the time. It was even in Swedesh TV. Swedes acted like Belgians or Dutch being liberated by allies. Check other angles from highway bridges. Sweden had the hottest summer ever recorded and there were huge wildfires. Poland lend a hand with this and the EU mechanism was enabled.
Love these videos to learn about other fire fighters and rescue cars and trucks in other countries. 👍✌️💪
I love you man :D You're like a 5-yo with his toys. So much joy and excitement!!!
By the way you're right, the Scanias in the background are part of a Swedish local firestation. They have all their trucks out to greet the Polish heroes helping us fight the massive wildfires we couldn't put out ourselves back in 2018. Lots of regular people got out standing next to the road as the Polish firefighters came and went, to show their appreciation for their help. The fires was finally put out after around 60 days from when it started.
If you want you can read a bit about the wildfire on Wikipedia here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Sweden_wildfires - "By June, several fires were out of control and Sweden requested help from neighbouring countries and via the European Union's Civil Protection Mechanism. Sweden received help from Denmark (firefighters and equipment), Estonia (firefighters and equipment), France (soldiers, firefighters, water bombing aircraft), Finland (firefighters), Germany (firefighters, helicopters), Italy (water bombing aircraft), Lithuania (helicopter), Norway (firefighters and equipment, water bombing helicopters), Poland (firefighters and equipment), and Portugal (water bombing aircraft)."
Basically the wildfires were raging from late May to late July 2018
Proud Polish People 🇵🇱🇵🇱🇵🇱
That year, one of the wildfires spread into a military shooting range. Due to unexploded munitions, the firefighters were unable to enter the area, so the military sent up a JAS Gripen and actually bombed the fire. It was surprisingly effective.
I am proud of Polish firefighters. Other countries can always count on their help and Poland's help.
think the blue one is a opel vectra.. you need to do more opel videos. alot of cool old ones.
also no wonder the line was long. 40 vehicles was sent from poland.
Locally the air force also used aerial bombings by JAS 39 Gripen fighter jets to make firebreaks and draw oxygen from the wildfires. it was intense.
Opel Omega Lotus was a crazy Opel of the 90s. (Vauxhal/Lotus Carlton)
i helped put out some of all the fires we had trouble with that summer. This video makes me so emotional. a wonderful video.
Blue one is Opel Vectra OPC - sporty version of old good Vectra
0:55 as a pole i found your chair looking like a polish flag 🇵🇱
I live in the region where this fire happened and parts of my route take me through the devastated areas regularly. The level of destruction was unreal and I'm grateful for all the Polish, Spanish and other countries emergency services that helped us out. That summer is not one I want to see happene again :P
That's just the Europe family. In the Eu-Parliament we yell at each other and "fight", but when someone calls for help, the brothers and sisters come and pull you out of the mud.
Buses are very often used by rescue organizations in Europe. In detail they differ from country to country and from region to region, but roughly they can be summarized as:
- mobile command center.
- Passenger transport vehicle either for emergency forces, like here in the video or to evacuate many people from disaster areas.
- Intensive care transport vehicle (to move intensive care patients over short distances from a general hospital to a special hospital).
- Oversize Ambulance, up to 4 seriously or 8 lightly injured, lying patients. (depending on size)
- mobile surgery room.
I also remember reading an article about a short chassis bus (+-20 seats) that was equipped with a roll container system and replaced a logistic truck. Can't find the station anymore though, so no guarantee.
@@M3rl1n177 Spieprzaj ze swoimi pisowskimi komentami, dziadu.
@@M3rl1n177 Are you a member of the Polish government to make statements about the motivations of its policies?
1:22 thats an Opel/Vauxhall Vectra (gen C)
I watched that video especially to see Your reaction for that bus. And I wasn't disappointed. ;) All the best for You! ;)
Car and suv at beginning was Opel Vectra OPC. 4wd was a 120 series land cruiser Prado
This car from 1:30 is Opel Vectra C (in UK Vauxhall, in Australia Holden)
In 9:05 You can see Isuzu D-max pick-up
Blue car at the start is an Opel Vectra. Pretty common car (at some point - specifically that model) across Eastern and middle Southern Europe).
Thank you Poland! We are forever grateful 🙏❤
The car you saw, the blue one is an Opel Vectra model that ran from 2002 to 2010 with some small design changes in the meantime, that one might be the OPC one due to the color.
The Blue car in the start was an Opel Vectra OPC, the black SUV was a Toyota LandCruiser, and the pickup at the end was an ISUZU
That SUV from the begining was also polish firefigther unit I think it has an ATV on the trailer :) 9:08 this one is ISUZU (a part of TOYOTA company) :)
Respect to PL 💪😎
The blue car at 1:43 is an old Opel Vectra (Production 2002 - 2008). At 9:07 it´s an actual Isuzu S-Cab. Greets from Germany!
The variety obviously can be explained as a whole country pooling various resources to help, but it's also about X vehicle being useful in X situation and only there. There's fire specific stuff, but there's also command centers, water treatment (possibly) and various other purposes. When one of these convoys goes out (from all over Europe - as it's all part of a single larger brotherhood) they set out with everything they need to be as close to 100% independent as possible. As EU achievements go, this system, is by far the best thing we've all achieved. As an European, i'm very proud and grateful for our firefighters.
A few guys gave their life in Greece, air tanker crash, I have helped FD before, cause usually they are first on scene, ambulance second, cops last, I have much respect for fire fighters, I put them against fighter pilots. They're so professional, calm and know everything from first aid to how to do a 4hour mountain treck to rescue a broken leg tourist. These guys are wizards, but not immortal!
Blue sedan on the begining was Opel Vectra GTS - European variant of Cadillac BLS with isuzu diesel engines.
White pickup towing a trailer in the end was ISUZU D-Max 2500. Affordable and reliable.
1:22 probably someone already responded, but that's Opel Vectra C GTS, it's pretty common in Poland, but I assume that's common in all Europe; Opel in UK is Vauxhall, if you don't know Opel. 9:10 is probably Isuzu truck, not that common
I totally agree with other people saying that the response of Swedes was just amazing. People greeting them all the way. There are many videos of the convoy taken in various villages, from motorway bridges and so on. They were welcomed as some sort of liberators even though they just came to put out some fires, lol. Swedes (or more broadly Scandinavians) love their countries and they care.
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They were going to save the forests, but there is not always and everywhere water, so this tanker was needed. These 10,000 liters of water were very useful.
3:43 That's VW Passat (B7) Alltrack. It's basically normal Passat Variant with more ground clearance, plastic cladding around wheels and 4MOTION AWD system. VW also has Golf Alltrack, and Audi sister cars A4 and A6 Allroad, Škoda Octavia Scout, Mercedes has C-class and E-class All-Terrain and Volvo has V60, S60, V40 and V90 Cross Country
SUV and the beggining (1:34) is Toyota Land Cruiser Prado (different from US version)
Blue car is Opel Vectra OPC (facelift) with what looks like either Corsa OPC, Astra J GTC OPC or Insignia OPC wheels
Fire bus is most likely command center or just regular bus for transport of firefighters
Pick up at the end is Isuzu D-max (2nd or 3rd gen)
You should check out some more stuff about Polish automotive history like the StratoPolonez which was a Polonez (a Polish car) which had a Lancia Stratos engine, it was used to rallies decades ago.
It's not same motor, not at all 😂 polonez used Fiat 1500 motor.
The blue car on first plan is Opek Vectra "C" its belong to GM at that time.
Last one white pick up is Isuzu
I'm pretty sure that blue car in a start of the video was Opel Vectra (2002-2005).
That white pick up at the end was Isuzu D-Max.
i live like 30-40m from the fires, that sucked^^taped all my windows and shit but still smelt like shit for days^^
the suv you didn't reckognise was a toyota land cruiser 120, and the blue car was a opel vectra opc, the mmc suv's is a pajero, that was sold as a montero in the states, and the white pick up was a isuzu
9:02. Used at the bus/coach accidents and as a Commander car
The car is an Opel Vectra GTC. 3,2 l V6, good for 250 km/h.
For the large fires that hit Sweden years ago, several EU countries also sent water bombers (Canadair CL 215 and 415?)...
in this year firefighters from poland was a second time in Greece! check it!
White pickup at 9:10 isuzu d-max
The white pick-up is an Isuzu D-Max
Polish fleet is like rebel alliance fleet while others have imperial standard. Change my mind
THE BLUE OPEL COULD HAVE BEEN A VECTRA AND THE WHITE PICKUP IS PROBABLY ISUZU, BUT I'M NOT 100% SURE
You should watch some videos from Polish ambulances going through Warsaw traffic.
1:22 SUV is Toyota Land Cruiser, blue sedan is Opel Vectra (probably OPC version).
9:08 it is Isuzu pickup.
1:32 Opel Vectra mk2
Finnish SISU and Czech Tatra produce trucks for special purposes that are next level!
That is Vectra C so mk3
Blue car is an Opel Vectra OPC with a 280hp turbo V6 engine.
Blue car at the beginning was an Opel Vectra c. ✌️
That blue car was Opel Vectra OPC (its a sport model) Europeans doesnt play around, teamwork in these kinda situations is amazing :)
That blue car is Opel Vectra C, in UK Vauxhall Vectra C
This blue car at beginning is Opel/Vauxhall Vectra C HB, they also build Wagons and Sedans. This car was been also available as Chevrolet (South America only I think and also Astra sold as Vectra - bit weird :) ) and it next iteration Insignia A was been sold in USA as Buick Regal if I good remember :)
I believe the first blue car you mentioned, and asked about was an Opel Tigra? German brand, known as Vauxhall in the UK.
The second one, across the street, wasn't that just a new-ish Jeep Cherokee?
I think this clip also shows how Sweden has the highest percentage of station wagons in the car fleet, in the world! I have 4 vehicles; 2 station wagons, 1 sedan, and 1 van - ALL 4 with a trailer hook.
The Blue car is an Opel Vectra OPC (Vauxhall Vectra VRX for UK) and the SUV is Toyota Land Cruiser (at the beginning of the video)
This summer was crazy. I work as Swedish national guard under this Forest fiers.
The Blue Car a older Opel OPC Model I don't know, it is a High Performacne Version. The Suv is a Older Toyota Land Cruiser Station Wagon. The White Pick Up is a Isuzu D-Max.
The last truck was SL RT, recce vechicle for high ranks
Blue car is hatch version of opel vectra (saturn aura in us)
Sweden had some massive wildfires in that year and requested help from all over europe. There were firefighters from different countries, germany was there too, but poland sent the most equipment and manpower by far. I believe germany just sent 14ish trucks.
I understand that no car manufacturer makes emergency vehicles themselves. Emergency services tell about their needs, and a company specializing in special vehicles equips the vehicles individually according to these needs. The vehicle body is selected based on these needs, price and experience. Many companies use a frame from a certain manufacturer because it makes their job easier and they get the right price for it. In certain regions, such as the Nordic countries, certain brands are preferred based on maintenance and experience.
That blue car in the beginning is an opel vectra (opc)
It was a part of the forrest that could have unexploded ammunition and some did explode so they dropped bombs to put the fire out there.
Polish firefighters are very well trained. I live nearby a Fire Brigade and they are at the scene of the accident faster than medical services and they act like a paramedics.
Many of them have equipment to help in their private cars. They take their vocational service seriously.
First car you seen in blue you liked at the start is a Opel Vectra OPC / Vauxhall Vectra VXR (same car different names) powerful car, nearly 300bhp, 2.8i V6 Turbo petrol engine, FWD, Bilstein suspension as standard, prone to understeering in corners when under load, interior is very minimal and uninspiring though, overall a great car and over here in the UK a Vauxhall icon got nicknamed the "council estate Ferrari" but you don't see many now as they cost a fortune to run
danish police had these at some point but they got phased out quick. spent more time at mechanic than on the streets. they dont work well as police cars being driven hard.
Some Opel's were sold in US as Saturn
@@MrLarsgren same here our Traffic Police used a special package of Vectra VXR from 2007 to 2012 but they got let go quick for frequent clutch failure and turbo seals going
@@pawek9528 and Chevrolet or Buick as they were under the GM conglomerate
Australia have the holden vectra.
I love this car and have mi opel Vectra gts 1.8 new from 2006. Many options to chose diesel / gasoline then regular / gts / opc
Was sell by opel / Vauxhall / Holden (Australia)