A6-3 responding - Truck Fire

[medperson1]

you honestly must have been going pretty slow if you couldnt keep up with the engine. u'd be screwed here with that kind of response time but i get it you only have 2 rigs which is sad. let me know where u'r at so that i never travel through those parts.

[Sackville0]

Our department it usually takes 5 minutes or less to get to a scene intown but out of town one day we had a call and we were almost 30 minutes getting there

[als365]

As annoying as the siren may be, it is our protocol that it be on at all times if we are running code, even if there is no traffic. I agree that the horn is useless. I never use it. I am wondering if this is a paid 24/7 department or volunteer. If it's volunteer I can understand the long response times. We are volunteer and extremely rural. The edge if our district is 76 miles from our station and we have had wrecks on the highway there that take us 40 minutes to get to.

[MPD01605]

We're combined. Career is 6a-6p, volunteer the rest of the time. We, volunteers, were up there staffing another ambulance. So that's why we're there. Half our county's rural with those 15-minute first due response times, the other is suburban. Our route is below. Our company has two stations, and the first due ares are the green and purple. Engine 23 (green) was at station 6, because they were getting fuel and that's where our fuel is.

[redlight722]

It's a fact that civilians can hear the siren better at intersections (yelp) more then they can hear the electronic horn. I think that the electronic horn is useless in a response.

[dietcum]

Sirens were very much over the top. Why the sirens when theres no traffic ? I am glas I wasnt injured at the scene. Nearly 8 minutes to get there ? Maybe a review of the emergency services there. Thanks for the video though.

[MetalSanke]

Well, just so people know theres a emergency vehicle coming if there IS any traffic around.

[dietcum]

I have worked for the emergency services myself. Sirens are only needed when the emergency vehicle needs to heard by another road user, to allow them to pull over safely and let the emergency vehicle make good progress to an emergency scene. I know here in the UK an emergency vehicle has no legal right over traffic law. so in other words they are not "allowed" as such to speed or to pass through red lights but they do. I mean who is going to pull them over lmao?? perks of the job i suupose lol

[Whiteyw12]

In Maine it is illegal to drive lights with Out Siren.. If you need to use lights.. then you should be using your siren. Period.

[yorenemesis]

I think 8 and a half minutes to get to a scene is a little long. They need more emergency services in that area.

[MPD01605]

To be fair, we have two stations, and thus two first dues. The engine was at the other station (where we were) and thus out of their first due (they were getting fuel), and the ambulance from the other station was out on a call. This place was also down near the border of the first dues, so it's like the furthest possible point to have to go to.

[fireman050]

whoever is driving that engine has a lead foot because they left the ambulance in the dust

[robertgift]

Nice.  Thanks. Video stops at 1:15. (We're on dial-up - if that matters.) Yelp is annoying. Not as effective as Wail. Why noturn off when no traffic?

[avenger007007]

pretty cool