London Fire Brigade unmarked BMW 5 series

[TheDoubledoppler]

What is the purpose of unmarked fire/emt vehicles as opposed to police?

[marcsw5000]

What beacon is that?

[00pstv]

as a serving member of the police its cid 

[policeblue999]

@00pstv The driver of this car has spoken to me after seeing this video, he says it was his lease car. He is a fire officer based in E London who was on a training exercise in Paddington.

You can also tell it is a Fire vehicle because of the larger beacon, commonly used by the LFB rather than the Met, and the positioning of it; the the rear left, rather than immediately above the driver (i.e. arms reach)

[00pstv]

@00pstv cool stand corrected lads

[chuckfireswift]

@00pstv: Sorry it isn't. I am the Fire Officer the owner of the video speaks of. It was my LFB lease car between May 2006-2009. At the time I was a Stn Commander based in East London but was attending a training session at Paddington when I got the shout to an address in Chelsea so remember this as I hardly ever pick up work in that part of London. I saw this video posted as an 'Unmarked Police car' and contacted the owner to correct. :-)

[00pstv]

cid

[policeblue999]

@00pstv It's a fire brigade Officer's car.

[lanegane1]

@00pstv No it's definatley a fire officer, It's out of arms reach of the driver its the same in wales the fire cars all have lights in the centre of the car

[chuckfireswift]

At 10 secs I froze it, recognise my profile, the long whip Aerial used by LFB (Now defunct as we have airwave) and the blue light from the back door as I plugged it into the plug in the rear of the car.

[chuckfireswift]

Sorry... That was me, if I am not mistaken that was Janaury 2009 a Saturday afternoon. I am a Fire Service Senior Officer. I was at a Training session at Paddington Fire Station and got called to a Chemical incident in Chelsae Square.

I have changed the car now because the three year lease was up in May 2009 so I can confirm it was a BMW 520d Touring. If you notice the blue light on the roof is the larger type used by LFB.

LOL...so funny seeing myself on a call.

[LifesaversofFuture]

Nice Video! Way to stay with it!

[policeblue999]

Cheers.

[SonicOverlordUK]

Kinda' reminds me of Starsky and Hutch with the light on the roof! Very cool!

[PoliceAndTrainMadNat]

excellent! ive seen a saloon one of these aages ago, am I right in saying they're RPU's?

[policeblue999]

If i'm honest im not too sure, i would have thought it was part of te robbery squad, although they tend to use Mondeo's and the RPUs are made up of marked cars, but you might be right.

[PoliceAndTrainMadNat]

I doubt they'd use such a car in the Robbery squad... big estate things like that are better suited to motorways

[lfbuw]

Indeed its a traffic motor

[PoliceAndTrainMadNat]

cool, I remember on Cars, Cops and Bailiffs, they had a saloon sitting during a ANPR Op. which was traffic.

[policeblue999]

ooh, ok. Thanks.

[Jackus2008]

Good catch!

[Krzr798]

wicked vid

[EmergencyVehiclesUK]

Great video!

[MotorwayCopsTV]

Wow! Excellent video!

Chris

[PoliceMadBen]

Lovely!

[KieranClarke999]

Excellent Video, Very Nice Motor!

[policeblue999]

Yeah, also had a bit of bullhorn at the start, not sure if you can hear it though.

[RascarDK]

I voted Awesome because its a awesome video

[policeblue999]

lol rasmus, thanks.