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- ride along with paramedic ambulance 25 en route to a medical call outside its area. The local medic unit was already dispatched on an other call. Fort Washington firefighters were already on scene with an engine and ambulance - by Dirk Steinhardt - www.rescue911.de - Clinton, Prince George's County, Maryland, USA - September 2006
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so lots of respect for these guys is due. thank you all who respond to calls like this. it is amazing what yall do. thank you to fire medic and police.
A Q on an ambulance?! I Love it!!!
To the people who are saying the ambulance is too slow... There is no need to go flying down the road, just increases the risk of getting into an accident yourself. We (where I work) have a policy that states we can only go 10mph over the posted speed limit. Just remember, you're no help if you end up needing help.
Now, if this is only a medic unit, there is no need for the it being so big. Just remember that some services have fire/ems units and they are also carrying rescue gear on the truck
HAHA, they just passed my doctors office. Keep up the good work....
but that is still a slow beast!!! love the Q siren...nice touch!! hahaha
It never ceases to amaze me on how many desktop Wannabe Ambulance/Fire Truck chasers "ASSUME" that they know what the driver or others need to do. It's not your dept, it's not your job and its certainly rubbish on the comments made to belittle the Dept for what hard work that they really do. I for one appreciate every dept in the emergency services for their dedication to safe living. Sad that so many "Pretentious" Fire Fighters or Captains make such silly comments. Become a real Emergency Worker and then contribute a positive response. Oh and btw, rescue911 I love your videos. Thank you for your time to make them and share them with us :)
Another awesome video, Dirk!
As an EMT myself with EVOC and having grown up on the very street Medic 25 passes at 2:00 , I can tell you with confidence that speed is the last thing this rig needs to be doing on Piscataway Road. It's notorious for speeders and drivers who just cannot do the very thing they're supposed to be doing. As an EVOC driver, I also appreciate the need to get to a call ALIVE. While in Europe, speedy responses may be the norm...we just don't have the roads to do it in the US. Sorry counterparts. :/
OMG i LOVE the EQ2B air horns and backup siren we need ambulances like yours in Frederick County lol
Q2B.. EQ2B is an electronic Q siren.
Oh nice
That is an EQ2B NOT Q2B. Q2B is mechanical and similar to an air raid siren at a different tone, the EQ2B is federal signals electronic version as heard in the video
Oh Ok my Bad But Still REALLY COOL !
i think you are all able to read:
"ride along with paramedic ambulance 25 en route to a medical call outside its area. The local medic unit was already dispatched on an other call."
Gotta love the air horn!
Getting there in 5 minutes as opposed to 4 minutes MAY in some cases make a difference in your patient making it or not. Having an accident and killing or injuring yourself or someone else means you wont get there at all. And you just took a unit out of service AND created another incident. Unless you are on the open highway you should not be driving more than 10 mph over the speed limit. And that is the law in many states.
+George Rinaldi Ridiculous law. When no traffic we go as fast as possible, but expecting traffic and prepared to slow as necessary for safety.Should be watching for traffic and hazards and NOT LOOKING AT THE SPEEDOMETER.
@NachtWolfES that is really true in Chicago the cfd ambulances are really small , but once you're in the suburbs they are larger
Our company policy is to refill at 1/2 tank and never go to bed with under 3/4. If you get caught with a truck under 3/4 full in the morning, you get written up.
Great video!!
I love how there's still traffic but they shut the siren off anyway...and then still have to keep hitting the manual siren constantly.
Great videos of the ride alongs. Makes me glad to live in a city, seconds save and these 10-20 minute videos to get to a scene are sad. Love Rekednodo0661's comment, so many moron drivers who just STOP. When I lived in London people used to double park on so many streets, trucks would plow them out of the way if they needed to.
I like how they turned onto a road with a 30mph speed limit, and the car ahead was pulling away from them! LOL
If you read the description:
Fort Washington firefighters were already on scene with an engine and ambulance
If they were urgently needed then yes the response would be faster but as there were already personnel on scene to determine the patient's condition they would know how fast the response would need to be.
@andycop211 There is if your spotted it's called failure to yield to an emergency vehicle in every state.
@canterburyfiredept well we actually move quite fast with our ambulances through the city streets :)
Oh cool! Freightliner truck!
nice. Although this was mutral aid, it is still a long response
love the Q
Wrong, MOST of these vehicles travel above the speed limit using lights and sirens to move non-emergency traffic and clear itself at intersections. These guys weren't in any hurry.
in alot of companies driving lights and sirens to the scene is a must even if its a BS call.. if it is a BS call then you wont risk your life for 5 minuts of a person who called 911 because he has a toothache
You can't drive 100 mph to the scene. It puts everyone on the road at risk because not everyone is going to use their brain and stop. Not only that but you can't have the person in the back flailing around along with all the medical equipment. You're no use to the person if you can't get there in one piece.
@Marty32 Besides they're an ALS unit--the BLS and firefighter units should already be there attending to someone.
@MrJordanHenley
I don't believe that is a Type I, in the video, you can see that the camera man is sitting in the captain's seat in the back, with the camera looking through the port-hole into the cab. That would make it Type III
WOW what a trip, you had to travel so far that I bet when ity was time to head back to the station, you definiatly put the ambulance in OUT OF SERVICE mode just so you guys could take you time heading back....LOL, Also curious to know if you dont mind, do you guys always try to keep the ambulance's fuel tank right at full as much as possible? Great video and Great trip
Even with flashing lights and sirens, the more Maryland liscense plates you see the slower you go.....
we have one of those huge trucks at my station it just looks like they go really slow. You can get those things goin pretty fast just gotta watch it on the turns or you might flip it. They are very top heavy
id love to see one of yall to make that distance w heavy traffic. id pay big money to see it. best driver in the world wouldn be able to do it under 8 or 9 minutes. so stop dissing these dudes. some depts dont respond at all. where i lived at there was a structure fire. there was a fire dept right around the corner from the house. they didn respond because of "volunteer shortage". another dept (12 miles away) had to respond. they were running lights and sirens and still didnt get there in time.
@xXFatalSinzXx Wll thats why some departments are getting dash cams installed into their trucks so they have a record of it.
@MrJordanHenley ahhh ok :O
didn't know that :)
thank you for your information, very appreciated :D
Not to ruin this amazing video but, anyone else notice what looked like roadkill at the 7:08 mark as the ambulance made that turn or was that just me?🤔
Most departments require them to fill up once they hit 3/4 so that they will have enough for a long trip or if they need to pump (for an engine)
It was a looooooonnngggggg ride lol and sloowww haha especially without a patient on the way there !
Im from australia... and how it works here is like the first ambulance that arrives is in charge... the others wud be there for backup... shud ne thing goes wrong...
haha, I do EMS in Monroe County, NY. It drives me up a wall when people won't move out of your way, but it cracks me up when people do what that red toyota did at the beginning of the video. What the hell is the point of stopping IN THE MIDDLE OF THE ROAD???
I'm so fucking disappointed about 90% of traffic didn't even try 2 pull over till like the very last second
I was thinking like why in the world are they responding to a call like 13+ minutes away then i read description
I always find it funny when people on the opposite side of the road pull over but people on the side you're driving on keep on cruising down the middle like any other day or just pull over at the last second. It pisses me off so bad when people are too stupid to pull over for emergency vehicles when there's plenty of space!
You have no information to the nature of the call and therefore cannot make that assumption.
Wow, now that was a long response. Glad to see there was already a unit there, was the other unit BLS, hence the need for an ALS response? Hate to think of a Pt. having an MI, or worse yet, an arrest, and having ALS so far away. Still, that's rural life for you, you get the ups and the downs when you're far removed from civilization.
Loving the federal pa 300
i like the sirens was it a q or an eq? and is it aslo a PA3000?
Funny thing is... in some states, it is only required to yeild to Blue-lights (police), but not red (rescue/fire), yet, in many counties, the fire-rescue units are county owned and therefore government vehicles which ought to mean they have right of way...
Yes.
4:25 Psst - This is the part where you pull over. Not 30+ seconds later.
But how will someone dish out the ticket? Unless there is police escorting the ambulance, then ambulance can't just pull over, get the guys info, then report him. You know what i mean? Who's going to give the ticket to the guy not moving over?
My town requires two cruisers to escort the equipment. If people don't pull over, then they get a $1200 ticket. Yes, it is extreme, but when its people's lives and property are on line, is it really that extreme?
So we don't crash or get hit in the process of heading to the scene. How useful would an ambulance be if it's lying on its side in the middle of the road?
Why aren't they driving fast enough? Because it's not like the movies. Responders are told to not run to a scene, so why drive insanely fast to one?
Most of these vehicles travel under the speed limit. The siren is used to push vehicles out of the way and clear intersections, not give right away to reckless emergency vehicle drivers.
better to be safe and get everybody to the scene ok, or drive fast and get in a accident. Because then nothing is getting to the scene
@keldfc you hear both from Europe and the US about Fire/EMS vehicles being involved in accidents while responding.
It's hard to compare european code 3 driving style with the american one, cause traffic reacts completly different: In the US they often stop at intersection, Q and airhorn running hot and cross traffic still doesn't stop, and in Europe we often can rush over red lights and intersections only by using hi-lo sirens
nice video 5*
great one
All these folks on here saying that there was already a unit on scene how do you know it may have been a bls truck requesting Als there's nothing here to say what the nature of the call is
Why do you not have ALS response cars? I've always found that very weird, your response times must be extremely slow or could be much faster with proper vehicles.
@Lindholmer5k Ohh, they bother alright.. I know a paramedic and he says that it is annoying when people drive past them or not pulling over..
If I'm driving with lights and sirens I ensure I've got a reason to even have them on. Meaning there is traffic that needs cleared, and I'm actually going faster than traffic. I've passed ambulances in my POV before while they were screwing around trying to find a house by driving lights and sirens. When you get close to the area, traffic can flow freely around you. No need to continue demanding the right of way.
Wie schaffst du das immer bei irgendwelchen Rettungsfahrzeugen mitzufahren?
@jeanorwin u are so right!
It sounded like some one hit the ambulance from behind.
Who cares if there slow, they have emergency response vehicles which get there first if its a serious accident....
@Dufik1992 Yup brother, the model of the ambulance possibly "old" and heavy probably around 2-3 tons or more since the model is a type 1 heavy ambulance.. Not a typical type 1 midsize ambulance with a v8 engine. Also check the description, it said that it had respond OUTSIDE of its area of responsibility meaning the time to respond within the original area has increased by 2x plus traffic and passing by an intersection makes the respond time longer. Peace brother :)
man these car drivers 0:37 are too thick to understand that there is an ambulance in front or behind you, dammit.
How do you get to film inside a cab of an emergency vehicle on a response?
Is it really that bumpy in the cab or is it just the camera
@Dufik1992 They said it was a diabetic w/ low blood sugar.
At the start you heard the ambo get it and say it was a diabetic with low blood sugar?
My sons learning his career early.
good another driver.
Or i dont think there was a patient on board yet??
Good lack..👍💪
not if their are multiple injuries.
@jeanorwin Not in a school zone
@andycop211
there is a law, just rare enforcement
I dont think I have ever waited more then 5 mins for a response, guess im lucky.
@andycop211 there is a law most but cops either aren't there or don't have the time
@biggyjeans1 Yeah, and its in europe you hear about ambulances, being involved in accidents!! though they wouldnt drive fast in heavy traffic!
I was referring to your claim of "it's a matter of life or death." The fact is there was already another unit on scene.
I don't know much about American law, but if you got a empty track just going 2 miles straight out with no cars, you can go a bit faster than the normal 35 mph IMO.
They are wayyyyy out of box assignment ! Is mutual aid for DC?
@85transam- Yes! Battering Rams!
@fopneus may have been a BLS ambulance
Did you get hit?
where is that?
Somewhere very small lol
Where i live they fly down the road.
Maybe a stupid question but how do ambulances drivers find their way around, do they just know the area like the back of their hand or do they have a gps?
The guy sitting next to him was navigating.
+HardstyleMFs GPS is nice, especially at night when it is easier to not see a sign, especially in rain and snow. We had a snow sticking to all the signs making them unreadable. It also covered north and east-facing LED traffic signal lamps and we could not discern their aspects.
Both
First Ambulance ive heard with a Q :|
There was another ambulance on scene because they took to long, they drove like grandmas. That's why the other unit was there first because this unit was taking too long. The fire fighters must have been radioing dispatch every 3 minutes asking for an ambulance because they were taking to long. Your supposed to EXPEDITE not CRUISE. The other ambulance probably go there first because they were following the rules and they EXPEDITED.
what is a Q5/5
Nice video showing start to finish.
Start engine as soon as possible to get lubricants flowing and engine as warm as possible before imposing load.
Hate when asked ETA.
Smart getting into lane 3 and allowing faster traffic to pass in lane 1 when turning right ahead.
Why siren when turning right with green signal?
@andycop211 I believe there are such laws in most places, but unless you have a cop following the ambulance, there isn't anyone to catch the motorist and give them the ticket. IMHO they should just stick a high def wide angle video camera on the front of them, run the license plates and mail them the ticket.
In the UK ambulance's are allowed a maximum of 10 Mph over the speed limet in a 40+ zone, and only 105 on a motorway, and police have being fired/disqualified for being in chases and breaking the limet....with sirens going ect
thank god the patient wasn;t having a heart attack