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Interesting fun fact ; my late father in law came up with the idea of writing ambulance backwards as well as the grill lights and the black bonnets while he was working as an Ambo in Dubbo NSW in the 1970's.
Bull shit that came about by a company making blinds
, blind man driving was written backwards, in 80s ambulance was never backwards until 90s so don't talk crap liar
W flex
One of the best I've seen was a local RESCUE fire engine where they put the RESCUE decal right under the brand of the truck, which was an... _INTERNATIONAL_
Beaut idea 👍
Why didn't you namedrop him? Sounds like he deserves the cred.
South Australia is so hot and dry, so glad all these guys are out there! Volunteers and full-time employed specialists are always there for us! 👏 Well done Australia! 🙋👍
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Amen to that, even though I live in QLD I would hate anyone to surcombe to a bush fire.
SA is SUPPOSED to be hot & dry - I'm down from the Northern Territory and the weather is weird - coming to the end of Spring's first month and it's COLD and bl**dy WET!
@@johnziersch4605 I was born in the NT love the place although I live in QLD the NT is my home.
@@johnziersch4605 It's El Nino mate! 😄
Thanks for showcasing our vehicles in this vid mate, from a retired paramedic and currently serving firefighter (volunteer)
Thank you for your service!
Hopefully not as black this summer.
Greetings from the orange group
@@TheKrispyfort Agreed!
Thank you to all the volunteers helping out in emergencies.
Generally the Red fire trucks are located in the metro area (suburbs) and the white trucks / tankers are "country" or rural service vehicles - but this can vary from state to state. Yes, we have planes & helicopters that assist with fires by dropping water or fire suppressing chemicals. There is a range of different types of trucks, but we don't have the super long ladder trucks with the extra steering wheel in the back. Most ambulances are similar to what you have seen, but we do have a small number of paramedics that travel on motor bikes for busy city traffic areas and of course the RFDS (Royal Flying Doctor Service) in the outback.
We also have a lot of Rural Fire Service trucks ('manned' mostly by volunteers) in Sydney, due to the large areas of bushland we have in the metropolitan area - we have two RFS stations within 5 km of my place and I live well within the metro area.
Victoria uses red for all trucks. You can also get green operated by Parks Services.
What I like is that police, fire and ambulance have different sirens. You can tell which one is which. The four digit number is an international help number. It doesn’t matter where you are on the planet or if you just find a phone and don’t know the passcode to unlock it, if it is a cellular/mobile phone they will be able to pin point you and come find you. In the middle of the bush or desert. We have doctors and nurses that will fly to the middle of nowhere to help, they are all volunteers and rely on donations to fuel the airplanes to bring people to city’s to get proper treatment.
Also if the Country Fire Authority are all voluntary and if they aren’t busy, the drive around in their truck dressed as Santa even though it is really hot, give out lollipops and let little kids play on the trucks. Turn on the sirens and pull the horns. BEST THING EVER!
up here in Queensland the rural fire brigade use yellow trucks
The Two police cars were holden commodores, first one was sold in America as a Chevrolet SS the second one is badged as a Buick Regal in America.
I think in my region we still have one of those V8 Commodore patrol cars roaming around
Is Australia even still producing Holden's?
@@heathowen1452more likely the lwb Caprice
@@Hurricayne92no. Local Production stopped in 2017, name ceased in 2020
@@jgsheehan8810 sad but true, even sadder the government of the day didn't see the value of having a car industry. We were the only country to help close down a car industry, very short sighted exercise.
😂😂😂
We definitely need a „Ryan get‘s it“ compilation!
Your facial expressions when the penny finally drops 2:55 are so entertaining! 😲🤣
That fire, where you saw them on the truck putting out the flames, would be called a grass fire. Bush fires tend to have more trees and bushes involved.
Do you reckon it was a control burn, as opposed to a “real” fire?
I don’t think they would be putting it out if it was a control burn unless it went past where they intended.
@@andrewjgrimm That particular incident around 12:30 in the video was definitely a real one. It's on the median (aka 'central reservation') of the Northern Expressway near Gawler, and you can see the traffic moving the other way on the other side.
I'm not impressed by the camera guy there, stopping on the side of an expressway is illegal and he was putting both his own and other motorists' lives at risk by stopping there to film.
Virginia is a town on the rural outskirts of Adelaide, the capital city of South Australia. Port Wakefield Road, the main highway taking traffic to the north of Adelaide, passes through the area and used to pass straight through Virginia. Market gardening is the main activity there. Peace out.
If you head due East of Adelaide you will end up in the Real Cultural Sporting Mecca of Australia...........It’s called Melbourne.
@@bobmitchell8012 ROFL. Bloody Victorians, they pop up everywhere. Lived in South Yarra for a year, liked Melbourne, don't live in Adelaide, had enough of big cities generally.
There's also a suburb in Brisbane called Virginia - just a bit of trivia 😊
I love watching Americans always surprised how other countries actually fund services well that don't happen to be the military :D
No need to be rude on his channel!
It's a bit more complicated than that. Most countries use federal budgets on a local level for things that are good for everybody: education, emergency services, healthcare, etc. The US has a division of power between federal and local governments. As such, these things are dependent on local budgets. In states with less industry and economically depressed areas within states there's simply less money available for services and infrastructure.
Not saying it isn't an issue, but it's a different issue than you seem to think. The federal government often CAN'T fund this stuff without it being seen as overreach. It's outside their jurisdiction.
XD glad I can provide that service
👍@@ryanreaction
@cmlemmus494 Most of these services are funded by State government with Federal assistance. Local govt are not involved, because the services (Police, Fire, Ambulance, Resuce) are STATE govt entities, even ones that are volunteer crewed, like SES and CFS) so local govt is irrelevant. There are no 'Sheriff's, 'City' Police etc, Police force is one per state and the Federal Police. (There are Sheriff's, but they are officers of the court, which is also Stste Govt and neither Sheriff's nor judges et al are elected, they are State Public Service employees.
Australia has a metropolitan and a country fire brigades the metropolitan are paid, whereas the country is usually volunteer, some big country towns will have some paid staff to run the station, but usually every station is run by volunteers who run raffles and what not, to keep the brigade financial.
In Victoria this has been a bone of contention. As State government interferes with the CFA. Many in country towns see this as an asset grab by Melbourne government.
One of the funniest moments of your videos Ryan that I have see so far, was when you were saying why hasn't that ambulance have its name written backwards. Oops, it was backwards - I got a really good laugh outta that!
no, head said why isnt it also written forward like fire was. then said oh it must be hard to read it backwards and laughed because he was reading it just fine backwards
Fun fact - we don't actually call them undercover.. it's unmarked police cars, and plain clothes officers. I suppose both are fairly apt when you think of how "undercover" is portreyed in movies and TV as being more about infiltrating a gang or cartel.
Having been a State cop, in Australia, my reflexive response to the argument that 'if they're not in uniform or a marked car you can't flag them down for assistance' is that they're not there to be flagged down. For example the Juvenile Aid Bureau cops are plain clothed partly to not intimidate or scare the youth they are working with. They have a HUGE workload which often relies on fast response, so if they were marked/in uniform and being flagged down to help people their work would be hindered. The same goes for the CIB people. Unmarked Traffic cars (the fastest cops on the road) are there to get the YAHOOS & IDJITS who treat the roads as race tracks and risk lives. The more pimped out the unmarked car, the closer it can get to the morons on wheels. I'm all for THAT. So except for the last group, the reason there are unmarked cars and plain clothed police is more about being able go do their jobs rather than anything clandestine or secret squirrel. I mean, when I was in plain clothes with Juvenile Aid, I still had to wear my gun in a holster, carry my official Police Notebook (pretty chunky!) - so I always had to be wearing trousers and a jacket with pockets (which in Summer looked and felt ridiculous). We often also carried a clipboard because a wide range of reference material was handy to have to hand out to people who might need counselling, food assistance, legal aid, emergency accommodation etc. Lol, and ONE LOOK in any of our unmarked police cars instantly revealed our radios etc. Yeah, we weren't about stealth.
Idk if this a nz only name but most call them mufties/mufty (i think thats how its spelt) more or less used to say out of uniform the work is also used in schools for days where uniforms are not necessary
Oh and for the guy above yes they can flag you down and ticket you the officer themselves will always have somthing to identify them as police. Also the cars are easy to spot due to the red and blue lights in the front and back windows usually.
I think it is a shame that they didn’t show the State Emergency Services (SES) vehicles! SES are a voluntary organisation who assist in many rescue operations, storm damage, searches for missing persons and the list goes on. They have some cool vehicles too.
I live in South Australia!
On Friday 22 Sept at 1:30AM, a fire started at my mother's house. We had the Firies, Ambos and Police attend. The roof collapsed, damaging the contents, but we are slowly recovering possessions, most of which did not get burnt. Mum and my sister escaped unharmed. This is how our taxes are used and may be a difference between our countries.
Thank you to our amazing emergency service people. ❤
he doesnt care he just wants Australians to like his channel in order to get more advertisments which means more dollars for him. look around thiers lots of americans doing this rubish now, sorry about my spelling. I to live in SA PT Pirie area
I am so glad that your family is unhurt! The emergency service is amazing!
Hey Ryan the other number you saw on the police car is for non emergency calls. In south Australia we even have ads on tv sometimes reminding us to only dial 000 if it is an emergency. They get so many silly calls and it takes them away from calls that really are emergencies!
I live in South Australia and we have a lot of unmarked cop cars. They try to catch ppl who are speeding and breaking the law.
if you listen carefully you can hear the difference between police, fire and ambulance vehicles
Only in some jurisdictions. The warning gear is all purchased through general government contracts.
The white fire trucks are country fire services, and are usually manned by volunteers. The red ones service the city and suburbs and are paid workers. First car was a Holden, made here in South Australia, 5 minutes from my home.
So sad to see Holdens close down, so much a part of our lives.
I think all the white fire trucks in column at the beginning were rural or "bush" fire units. All Australian states usually have metro and bush fire units. I would even hazard a guess that bush fire stations and trucks easily exceed metro trucks.
We also have ambulances, advanced paramedics and a smaller car that would be driven by a doctor or a highly trained paramedic. As an example, my daughter had a seizure that required me to perform CPR.
Advanced paramedic vehicle arrives with lights and sirens. They get started and a doctor arrives shortly after. In our case, they stabilised her, and one of the paramedics drove the doctor's car so he could travel with my daughter and continue advanced treatment. The hospital was alerted so the minute we arrived every ones ready.
Not everyone likes our health system, but our services are second to none in my book.
For context... an Incident Command vehicle is kind of like the "Battalion Chief's" car/truck in America - ie. Tahoe or Suburban that follows the Truck, Pump, Ladder, Squad and Ambulances, taking command of the scene.
The ambulances look in such good condition because most are brand new, we keep buying them because more and more are being held up at the emergency dept. at our hospitals.
lol ouch!
The "bush" fires in Australia burn DIFFERENT, this is because the GUM TREE is a eucalypt nd the leaves contain a cobustiable oil, which ignites at treee top level and jumps fast from one "oil" spot at tree top level to the next. Can you imagine fighting a spontaneous evolving oil fire?
I’m pretty sure they are the bush fire trucks first up… those guys are 100% volunteers. Absolutely our National hero’s 💕
I live in a CBD skyscraper in Sydney and have seen firefighting from ladders 15 stories up. Wherever there are fires, firefighters are prepared to get there, and it is amazing how fast they arrive.
The reason why I never accept a hotel suite above the 15th floor!
The main fire station that sits in the City of Adelaide is one of the biggest in the country. Most of them situated around the suburban area hold 1 or 2 trucks and an ambulance. In country towns we have several different stations that can hold 2 or 5 trucks to support in case of fire. Most stations will have reserves in case of large bushfires.
As AU i so vast, sparsely populated many towns have unusual fire vehicle stationed in small towns & "staffed" by trained volunteers to operate them, as city fire trucks can be more than half a days drive away. Many of these vehicles are multi wheel drive as they have to go on unsealed road, bush track or even just across many terrains & need o carry their own water supply as AU is the driest continent in the world and not all places have a dam, some homesteads rely on tank water or even buy i deliveries for their daily use, hence fires would soon drain what is available. With police, unmarked cars are used a lot mainly for road offences (speeding, unsafe driving etc) but there are also highly visible, high speed pursuit vehicles on major roads/highways to deter & catch speeders, A lot of vehicles also have programmable LED displays to direct traffic (as the do in UK too), which can detour, stop, and advise of weather conditions, traffic accidents etc. and don't need to block roads y parking across them, so they are openly accessible to other service vehicles. As a side note, many AU companies have sold "light bars" to USA for emergency vehicles.
If I had the Black Jeep at 8:40 the license plates would be BAA BAA
Yes, we get lots of bushfires every year. We also have a lot of controlled burn-offs in the cooler weather to reduce the risk come summer. We have a laws against tossing cigarette butts out the car window or just tossing one while walking, If you’re spotted doing that, you’ll cop a heavy fine!
Kinda random...??? 😂
The car at the beginning was a Holden, Australian make. ✌✌ ... I've been caught for speeding many times by undercover cop cars. You see what looks like a holiday family coming down the road in front of you and you go "Nahh, no worries, she'll be right", and hit 150k's.... and then that bugger turns on its flashers and you go "faaaark."Fun fact, in Aus drivers usually get out of the car to greet the copper when we're pulled over. A friend who visited America and toured in a hire car did that and had a heart attack when the cops pulling him over pointed their guns at him and started screaming 'GET ON THE GROUND! GET ON THE GROUND!"... Sadly, he was so traumatised he said he'd never visit America again. 😒😒
Not sure how, mate. I'm ollllld. 😆
fun fact! the reason why the sounds keep changing for the emergency sirens is because people tend to tune out repetitive noises in the background - so they switch it up periodically to help keep people more alert!
also, when it comes to siren sounds - usually these can be controlled by the person in the vehicle.. depending on their location. ie a police car or ambulance usually has a "wail" which is a longer and slower sound.. compared to when approaching / navigating intersections where it is usually the quicker / fast paced siren tone (called a "yelper"). people are supposed to respond quicker to the "yelper" tone and be able to hear it better than the "wail."
South Australia, my home State!
They also use the signs when set up for breath testing for alcohol/drugs
We have 2 contact lines, so they can still get Police Attendance..
Its a COMMODE!! (Holden Commodore)
Those trucks are Country Fire or Rural Fire Service.. Only for outer urban/regional/bushfires etc. (All volunteer).. Designed for truck burnovers with water sprinklers and thermal shades for the windows to save the crew... Our city MFS (Metropolitan Fire Service) Fire Trucks are big Red Scanias etc..
I am sure that this was just an inadvertent typo but the car is a Commodore not a commode, which is a different thing entirely.
As stated the full name is a Holden Commodore. Holden was a subsidiary of General Motors that operated in Australia, although some of its vehicles were also sold in a few overseas countries as well. Some models were also sod in the USA, but the names of the vehicles were usually changed to those that GM already sold in the USA. Holden still sells cars in Australia but they are all imported.
I've heard a lot of nick names for commodores; commie, comdom, dunnydoor, common whore, and of course the series code (VB-VF) but never commode. But as it turns out, yeah, some people call em that 'cause a _commode_ is like a toilet accessibility device or something.
As an Australian and a motorbike rider. I not only give way to Emergency Vehicles. I salute the crew as they pass.
…ok bud
@@aidtim1350 why wouldn't you?
That's a little different.
The first cop car was a Holdem (GM) Commodore.... & yeah, 131 444 is the non-emergency number.
The Fire dept. van is a 'Metropolitan Fire Service" mobile command vehicle.
The smaller fire trucks are much more maneuverable which is really important when dealing with bush or grass fires.
The "RAP" on fire trucks refers to the 'Road Awareness Program" (subtitled "Looking After Our Mates").
Dial 000 for an Ambulance , fire and Police , but dial 131 444 for Police attendance that is not life threatening . Dial 132500 for storms and flood rescue ( but 000 will put you through) . You will need to know where you are located when ringing . Payphones have an address on the wall
Our country/outback areas are all run by volunteers and called the CFA (Country Fire Authority). It's really big in Australia and it's quite often that these guys head out to Canada and USA to volunteer their help when when you guys have bad fires. Has off to these guys (my husband is one of them) because it is all done on their own time, they all have their own day jobs.
They are not called CFA in WA. We called them volunteer fire fighters.
In Canada we have just experienced the worst fire season ever. In fact it is still going here in BC. We are everlastingly grateful to all the firefighters that came from Australian, US, South Africa, Mexico to help us out, as they have on other occasions.
@@judithshorthouse1799 And we share your pain when you suffer from fires over there. I think there are very few countries that can really relate to what it's like to have such wilderness & massive sized fires in the way both our countries experience. I really hope your season does end soon!
They are called CFS in South Australia. Country Fire Service
@@hbeinke88 and RFS (rural fire service) in NSW & Qld & maybe others. There are, or at least used to be a handful of CFA's (different organisation to the RFS, not just different name) in NSW as well, but RFS is the main one & the website for evacuation info etc
Fire has it both ways because they're more likely to block the road going into a fire and then you can tell when approaching from the front, while ambos are unlikely to need to block access to an area
As a fellow South Australian this was hilarious for me to watch, we take most of this for granted. I will simply just say, this shows the wonders that SA taxpayer money can fund. SA has every sort of technology and machines for emergency resources like the police, firefighters and ambos. We now have under cover vans that have a camera at the back of them to function as speed detectors/cameras (another word: revenue raisers). Most of the time the police use those cool LED things above the cars to say, merge right or left-drug and alcohol testing-it is very useful but try dodging them and eventually they’ll catch u in a random street😢. I would love to see more videos like this I’m certain that it entertained the viewers watching from Australia
This is awesome, I'm a volunteer fire-fighter in south Australia and even I learned things from this
I built a batch of big roof-mounted LED tilt up signs, about 1.2m square for the west Australian main roads Dept. Mounted on Merc Sprinter vans for emergency freeway response. They could close a lane without getting out, and they had a full loadout for anything you could want to deal with a roadside emergency.
If you want to compare gas prices, Oz prices are in Oz cents per Litre. You will need to convert AUD - USD and also Litres to US Gallon (3.785 litres), which is smaller volume than Imperial Gallons (4.546 litres) so AUD $2.00 per litre = USD $4.84 / USGAL ($1 USD = $1.57 AUD@27 Sep 23
The vehicle @ 4:10 (on your video) that reminded you of an ambulance and you also correctly identified as Incident Command is used as a command post when there are multiple fire response units used for battling a blaze that need co-ordinating (such as bushfire/wildfire).
The Virginia Tanker is a country fire truck - and the service is called CFS (Country Fire Service). Virginia is on the outskirts of Adelaide so it is rural.
The whole of Australia is super clean compared to the USA 🇺🇸 it’s the first thing I noticed about the states plus the petrol prices are old as we are playing around $2 to $2.50 a litre at the moment
$1.90 in Cairns.
The smaller ones are used to get close to scrub fires maybe up a narrow dirt track , or hard to get to places . The cop car is a Commodore by the now defunct Genral Motors Holden , 20 years ago they sent them from here and re badged them as Chevrolet from 1948 to 2017 they Holden were under the umbrella of GM built some of the best cars here in OZ. The Fire trucks in Sydney along with the siren have this vibration set up so when the teens have their music turned up it goes straight through you so music can't block out the vehicle .
You're forgetting most US Emergency services vehicles have rumblers
As a child i lived about 1/2 mile from the ambulance station, with cow paddocks between. About 2 minutes before the siren's started in the ambulance station all the dogs in the street would begin to howl, their hearing must be so good that they heard the call out come in to the station and anticipated the siren.
There are also SES or State Emergency Service Vehicles that have an Orange and white checker band and are manned by Volunteers
This was AWESOME! Loved it. Happy to watch more of these videos!!
RAP (road awareness programme)
The roadside fire I believe would have been what we call back burning or a controlled burn to help prevent bushfires from spreading as quickly as possible
www.mfs.sa.gov.au/community/educational-programs/rap
A controlled burn is also called Hazard Reduction. a 'back-burn' is a fire that is lit to burn back into the front or flank of a wildfire to control it.
That incident was actually on the median of the Northern Expressway, near Gawler, and was very much a real fire rather than a controlled burn.
Highway medians in SA are mowed by the Department of Transport and Infrastructure to keep them low, not burned off.
In the Metro/Urban areas, the trucks don't need to carry much/if any water, as they can tap into the mains, so can be smaller with just pumps and hoses.
I am not sure how it is in other states but we don't usually wear helmets in our trucks in the NSW RFS because of the whiplash if we were to get into a motor vehicle accident.
As proud South Aussie (Adelaide) this video genuinely made me smile. All your vids do. Cheers mate 👍
Thanks for taking an interest and learning about our Emergency vehicles. Honestly I was bubbling with pride throughout the whole video and I'm really grateful that I was able to have that experience because of you.
You almost get deafened by the siren and the lights are extremely bright. You can’t miss an emergency vehicle. Give them the right of way Always
In Victoria you have to slow to 40km to pass an emergency vehicle with flashing lights.
not loud enough to drown out doof doof music playing inside some cars, with windows up to block out outside noise futher
The OZs were considering changing all alarms to the French style alarms which are of an intermittent style, still very effective but not as harmful to the human ears (less decibels).
The acoustic penetration of sirens if very short range, and drops off rapidly off axis, that is from the side. The sound is also non-directional, except I think for so called 'phaser' tones. They are supposed to alert drivers to check for an emergency vehicle which is then spotted (with varying degrees of difficulty) by its livery (often more a multicolored disguise than anything useful) and warning lights.
Many warning light designs are almost useless in bright daylight, especially the small LED sets (1x4 or smaller in blue are useless).
When the lights flash unsynchronized, at night particularly or in busy street scenes they can mislead motorists as to the movement and disposition of the vehicle and can be quite dangerous as drivers try to figure out what they need to understand from them.
The Police Cruiser would be a Holden Commodore - at least a sporty 6 cylinder variant, although probably an 8 cylinder powerhouse that can keep up with most of what's on the road without much apparent effort.
Yes, Virginia is a small town not far from the state capital, Adelaide. They are CFS (Country Fire Service) vehicles and are crewed by unpaid volunteers.
My son is a voluntary ambulance officer n fire-fighter, and works for Metropolita Fire Services HQ in country South Australia. One of our many Health Heroes.
Each state has it's colour selection for the emergency vehicles. Generally, though, Fire units are red, police have the blue and white checked stripes along the body, Ambulances are yellow and green [apart from NSW, I think, which are red and have red and white checked stripes]. They ALL have the flashing lights and sirens!!
Yep, red & white check with fluoro (fluorescent) yellow striping✌🏼
@@Reneesillycar74 cheers, thanks
Yep, emergency vehicle liveries are a dog's breakfast of flashy graphic design, with indifferent to very poor visibility.
Its not a bush fire but a grass fire which happen all the time in australia 🇦🇺 all over the place its very common but if theres a lot of bush around they respond immediately ❤😊
Hey Ryan!
Every state in Australia has a Rural Fire Service (RFS in NSW) or Country Fire Authority (CFA in Victoria) the name varies between states.
The rural services are normally a majority volunteers.
We also have a metro service as well. In NSW they are called Fire and Rescue Service (FRS). The FRS deal with house fires, car accidents, hazardous materials/spills and are fully paid staff.
The RFS deal with majority bush fires and other bush related incidents.
Places like the suburbs normal has a FRS and a RFS. Where I am from in NSW I have a FRS station a 2 minute drive and a RFS a 5 minute drive from my house.
Our dog could tell the difference between the ambos (ambulance), firies (fire fighters) and police sirens. He would howl when the ambos or firies went past but ignored the police sirens. 😂
Yeah it's funny. A mate son and American wife moved back to Australia.. she was driving down road heard a siren. Look into mirror. Sore Fire.. and moved over.. and she said that is so cool..
SAW "Fire", maybe? Anyway, half the emergency vehicles in the US have the text backwards on the front, so I don't quite understand how a Yank wouldn't know about this.
MFS (Metropolitan Fire Service) is only found in the larger centres, Adelaide particularly, Whyalla, Port Pirie, Mount Gambier and a few others. Small communities are served by the volunteer crewed Country Fire Service. Vehicles and equipment are supplied by a combination of State govt funding and donations, but a lot of it comes from an Emergency Services Levy charged to homeowners.
in case you also noticed we have two types of ambos. emergency which are obvious but we also have patient transport which are used to move patients between hospitals or even to and from home in a non life threatening situation. we also have the legendary flying ambulance aka the Royal Flying Dr Service. they went to the aircraft manufacturer to have their aircraft specially modified so that stretchers could be lifted into and out of the aircraft as well as all the medical gear. They also gave the design away for free so that any air emergency aircraft can be modded the same way. (they are a not for profit organisation run entirely by donation and some gov funding)
The police you were marvelling at is a Holden Insignia or later Holden Commodore, which is Australias General Motors division.
The car is sold with different brands attached, for example.
North America: Buick Regal
UK: Vauxhall Insignia
Germany: Opel Insignia
Yes although likely made overseas and imported to Australia since we don’t make them anymore 😔
6:25 regarding the different fire vehicles: the larger ones tend to be in urban areas, which need a large, focussed response; the smaller ones tend to be rural, which need to be able to get into more difficult to reach areas
the small fire trucks are CFS trucks, primarily used for bushfires, the reason for them being small is because we gotta take em into the bush where sometimes there’s not enough room for the bigger trucks. hell there’s been times where we can’t get the smaller trucks in
I didn't realise the ambulance was written backward, I thought it was writen normal too, but I'm stoned, lol
And you're probably in South Australia too
this is so you see Ambulance wording in rear mirror
@@johngreydanus2033 Lol, no, but I know a LOT of stoners down there, fair to make that assumption, they are over represented
@@pietrobroughan960 I'm going to see if it's the same here in qld, next chance Iget. I've never noticed it ever being backwards
@@coolhandluke1503 QLD'er! Yeah, you never look in the mirror anyway, ha ha
The water tankers can be necessary depending on water availability away from the cbd. Some years ago we lived in outer suburb on acreage. In a large bushfire the water pressure fell down to a trickle with use of so much. We were encouraged to build a pool for easy access to water.
You are seeing emergency vehicles from "big" cities out to rural country areas, very different roles.
And remember in Australia everything burns in summer so bushfires require different fire appliances in the countryside, in big open farmland, offroad up in the hills, often 100kms from water.
The "Incident vehicle" isn't a camper but an Incident Control Vehicle for remote area emergencies as a command and radio comms control base to control and co-ordinate the teams in the field, including aircraft support. Usually the vehicle has a very tall radio mast that it can extend up to give longer range comms when stationary. A very useful piece of kit loaded with technology and great to have as a central base when you are nowhere near civilisation and operating in an emergency. The military must use very similar vehicles to control a battlefront.
Remember that in Aus, cities & towns don't have their own fire/police/etc. They're all controlled by the state. Because of the centralised control, there can be more specialisation. When a major 'anything' happens, there are dedicated command and control vehicles to allow for setting up remote command centres. Also, the Police have specialised vans to set up something in a community, for anything from just a bit of PR stuff to setting up where something like a kidnapping has occurred to canvas the locals. Lastly, there are specialised units on non-traditional vehicles where rapid response is required. So the Ambulance motorbike is able to get there much faster and takes control while a standard ambulance is still on the way.
RAP is an acronym for Road Awareness Program 15:27
I came for this comment, thanks!
@@johngreydanus2033 www.mfs.sa.gov.au/community/educational-programs/rap
The little fire trucks and any non-traditional looking ambulances are usually support vehicles, incident supervisors cars, specialist officer cars, or ones used to get help to front line firies or other emergency service personnel.
Our “undercover” police cars are called “unmarked” vehicles and the officers usually wear a uniform unless they’re doing a sting or something.
BTW our police officers open carry guns now, I don’t know when they started that but was surprised when I finally (🙄my brain is super annoying these days) realised it wasn’t a taser.
I live in a regional farming community so people having guns isn’t unusual but seeing someone open carry or with a gun at all unless they are on a farm or going shooting roos and such, definitely is 😳 “shooting” is what we call any hunting with firearms, it’s easy and straight to the point 👌🏽
Hope you’re having a great week, mate 👍🏽😊
I think Australian police have always carried guns. I can remember that from my teenage years.
Triple 000 - Emergency
131 444 - Police assistance for non emergencies.
That massive station is on Wakefield Street in Adelaide's CBD (Central Business District)
The smaller fire vehicles like the van are command vehicles, which carries the district officer who is basically the guy in charge of the the fire fighters, the appliances, and how the fire will be approached and extinguished
Two types of fire departments. Townies for built up areas, houses etc. And then the Rural/Country/Bush fire departments. In bush fires you use very little (compaied to the fire size). In most cases you burn the fuel in frount of it.
The 3rd fire appliance that looks like an ambulance is actually an SA Metro Fire Service (all paid firefighters) Command Vehicle, which is responded to larger jobs with a senior officer onboard. All MFS vehicles are painted in traditional fire truck red.
The white fire trucks are SA Country Fire Service who are all volunteers, with brigade names on their appliances. While people often think of us (yes I am a CFS volunteer) as only attending bushfires, we respond to all types of emergencies outside of the main populations centres of SA, and within the interface areas both MFS & CFS often respond together.
The CFS 'camper' in an Incident Command Vehicle, which attends larger jobs (like bushfires) to provides comms and other support to an Incident Management Team (IMT).
The MFS RAP program is the Road Awareness Program delivered to high school graduates, teaching them driver road safety by exposing them to some of the realities of road trauma - yep sometime shock tactics work! Students hear the horror stories from some victims but also from reformed perpetrators, who have made poor risky choices of drugs or alcohol etc. while on the road and come unstuck.
Lol loved your reactions mate, regards Aussies from down under.
You should watch the AFL grand final on Saturday
The “FIRE” vans handle communication between services at a major fire or disaster scene. Also they bring other resources like experts or equipment (like a new hose). The camper is for breathalysing & the super black one is just a Deceptacon
The dark sedan with flashing lights is probably transporting human organs from one hospital to another for a transplant.
Firies also have Paramedics. My son has those big yellow trucks. He is an Aviation Fire Fighter, Water Rescue and Paramedic. He has put out one fire in 10 years and it wasn’t at the Airport. The Government can order them in when it is a big fire. He has saved a lot of unconscious flyers that land.
Yes, we do get bloody here in Adelaide & surrounding areas of our great state of South Australia 🇦🇺.
Tha k goodness for all who operate these vehicles. They are all heroes.
The Rural Fire Service(RFS)/Country Fire Service(CFS) trucks are stationed at local RFS/CFS stationthroughout rural and regional areas to ensure quick response to local fires. You wouldnt have them at city fire stations. It would take too long to get out of the city to get to the fire. lRFS/CFS stations are in thousands of small towns all over the country and are staffed by volunteers and funded by donations. Heroes
All cities in Australia and New Zealand have a large central fire station which houses many appliances and the ladder trucks. In the outlying suburbs there are smaller stations which house the standard appliances. Country stations are usually volunteer ones, they are called in to the station from their farms and businesses by a siren that is up a very high pole at the station. When the siren sounds then everybody in the town and district know that there is a fire. ( it is very loud)
Hey Ryan - I just saw a CZcams channel you’d like. It’s called ‘Aussie English’. The guys an Australian English teacher who did a video titled ‘The three Australian Accents: General, Cultivated and Broad.’ It’s only about 6 mins and accurate. And it looked like he had a few other interesting vids on there too.
Dot Matrix boards are universal in Australia, their obviously used to give directions to motorists (eg: SLOW DOWN, MERGE LEFT). Even our Paddy Wagons have them on the back.
Someone commented you should watch the AFL grand final on Saturday and although I don’t support either team it’s going to be an awesome display and KISS are the opening entertainment .
GO PIES
That was awesome :-)
I wish they showed all types, there are small ambulances to get to scene quickly and also used for transport of patients that do not require a bed or in transit care.
Small fire trucks are used for access in the bush, narrow tracks etc.
South Australia has TWO numbers for police, as the 000 is like your 911 and is nationwide, and for EMERGENCIES ONLY, and is for FIRE, or if Ambulance or Police are URGENTLY required. The call will go to a response centre SOMEWHERE (could even be interstate) and the first thing they ask is the nature of the emergency (so they know which servive or services to send (we don't like wasting resources over here)) and the second is the state/city/suburb, then the address or location. That way they only send the immediately required emergency services, and they can call the others if needed. While the 131444 is for when POLICE assistance is required but it isn't an emergency ... YET (like a drunk driver in front of you weaving on the road).
The cop cars were Holden Commodores, Holden is an Australian built car, we built some left hand drive for America, they were rebadged as Pontiac G8 and Chevy SS
Now it’s the other way round. They build the Holdens and ship them to us lol
Yes! An undercover cop is the one with the bed blanket.
Many of the white high bodied fire trucks are 4WD rural bush fire brigade vehicl3s, in most states these are crewed by well trained volunteer crews, the water tankers are to replenish the pump trucks in rural situations.
I remember mum teaching me about the word "Ambulance" and "Fire" being written backwards so it is correct in rear view mirrors in the 1980s. It has been a thing for a long long time
Over here police cars provide escort for wide loads on the roads. So this cop car could've been behind a wide load.
131114 is the non-emergency police number, 000 is our emergency number.
I see them a lot on Highways and Freeways.
5:17 that’s my town!
Also CFS (country fire service) is a volunteer service, a couple of my mates are CFS. MFS, metropolitan fire service are the paid firefighters in the red fire trucks.
They're known as unmarked police cars not 'undercover cops' - and they can do random stop and searches of motorists and their vehicles. Undercover cops in Australia work cases undercover, i.e. without their identities being known - similar to the US, I guess?
In the Victorian CFA, we washed the trucks weekly and after every turnout. On the weekly wash, we even polished the brass.
Once I saw a police car that was a sort of khaki green color (instead of white or black) with the blue checkered design on the side and all. It overtook us on the highway and I remarked how unusual it was, only to see it parked among the shrubbery on the side of the highway a few kilometers later (no signs to mark the speed camera at the time, either). I was genuinely shocked at how well it blended in. So cruel. lol.
Some states that I've seen have marked HWP cars in different colours, but with the same checkerboard livery on the sides. So from the rear-view mirror they look pretty much like normal sedans. Sneaky!
@@dagwouldWe have Highway patrol here in our area of Victoria.
The first police car would be the trailing vehicle for a semi trailer with an oversized load on the back that you wouldn’t be able to get past.
Ryan the "smaller" trucks are rural fire service generally servicing bush fires, the south Australian police car is a Holden Commodore
as an ex nsw cop , way back we had smart cars . led light boards , type in anything , slow down , yeah a traffic jam behind you on the freeway. sirens hit the horn they change so does the light pattern. basically in oz all respect emergency services . we live in a land that one day you will need one of them to save your life . real life , oh no not the chips , ya i set my unit on fire . the fire brigade got lost even though half a km away. but turned up and saved the day. at the height of the pandemic i needed the ambos, no fear no masks , got me to hospital. the end game i had severe dehydration. 2 bags of saline , a hit of valium , 2 hrs later sent home , thru a ghost town. .they tell us we are facing a grim summer , thank all we have these ppl in all states.
late to the party here, you didn't get to see the big police booze buses. The usually pop these up around holiday season either in the morning, afternoon or evening to catch anyone drink driving. I am not sure about other states, but here in Perth, WA, we have a HUGE compound where all police vehicles and buses are kept.