Rapid response vehicle LAS

by Dirk Steinhardt - http://www.rescue911.de - in London, UK - February 2006

Category:

Autos & Vehicles

Tags:

• RRV
• paramedic
• response
• vehicle
• Vauxhall
• Astra
• Opel
• Zafira
• london
• ambulance
• service
• emergency
• medical
• services
• EMS
• NHS
• Trust
• national
• health
• 999
• responding
• turnout
• Whelen
• LED

[SonicOverlordUK]

Why watch ignorant teenagers kick a leather ball around for 90 minutes? People have different interests.

Like, I enjoy fishing and taking pictures of cars when other people would hate sitting on a riverbank weighing a fish they've caught or want to key the gas guzzler parked up outside ASDA.

[emergencyvehiclesuk1]

Such a fantastic video, the camera got the lights really well!

[04smallmj]

@lanegane1 That's a Zafira LOL

[Rummeltobi]

@ThePatrick10001 o.O Seriously not

[ThePatrick10001]

emegency car from brabus???????

[lanegane1]

@Thirdwatchandgta I know. It's bloody rediculus in the US. Why so many lights? Did someone learn how to fit them and take the bloody piss?

[Thirdwatchandgta]

@lanegane1 Thats nothing compared to american cars :P

[lanegane1]

The front of that Astra looks like a bloody christmas tree!

[RadioReporter01]

@coltblack2613

Here the FDNY and Emergency Service are dispatched separately, don't know what the other is doing and often are in competition for the job, since the first unit gets his boys to handle. FDNY gets there first, they handle and NYPD watches.

[coltblack2613]

@RadioReporter01

Over dispatch of Emergency Service Apparatus is commonplace in the United States as a whole.

I run in a company in MD and PA and both are over dispatch. However when in Garrett Co. MD they we're sensible on what was sent. Just depends on local protocol and the "Box Card" made by the chief of the department having jurisdiction.

[RadioReporter01]

@ImRatherTall

They don't send the fire dept unless their is something for them to handle and EMS goes in on a report of injuries, sometimes on a standby like hostage and bomb jobs but I find it's just invites to a party when there's a big job, all show up. Police I mean.

The FD handles different things in different cities. In NYC both PD and FD handle pins and traps (latest dispatch slang for trapped in a collision)

Funny, just was a call for a car with bullet holes and blood in my area

[ImRatherTall]

@RadioReporter01

Gotcha!

Thats something i dont get with the way the US emrgency servs. work, they send dozens of units for something small, say for example a domestic fight, there would be a firetruck, an ambulance and a few police cars, here in the UK, its more reserved and equipment/appliances etc are only sent if needed, say the domestic suddenly set the place on fire, the police would call for the fire brigade and so forth!