American Reacts to French Police Escort Belgian ambulance in PARIS - Children's Hospital 

My heart sank while watching this video. Belgium has excellent hospitals, if this poor kid had to go to Necker Hospital in France (golden standard for pediatric care in Europe), it means his condition was super serious. The fact he couldn't be evacuated by an air ambulance means he needs heavy life-supporting equipment not available in an helicopter. Poor kid was on the brink of death. I hope these officers gave him the precious minutes that could make the difference between life and death. I hope this kid made it.

Hi! French biker here (not a professionnal one but had almost the same training as police bikers for other purposes), some toughts on this: - Since you talked about SAMU: SAMU is french medical emergency responders, they always come with at least an MD and a nurse. Usually in France if you need first responders for something medical you call them (15) or a number that will forward your call (112) and if you need and ambulance they will send the firefighters, if you need a doctor they will send a team from the SAMU. For instance, I had a bike accident it was the firefighters that took me to the hospital not the SAMU (because I was only lightly injured). - The traffic is actually not that bad for Paris "périphérique", it's far from rush hour the highway is pretty low traffic on the video. Yeah, in french cities (especially Paris) traffic jams are horrible even in the middle of the afternoon for instance. - On the ramp, the bikers went to the traffic lights to make way because they saw the ambulance would never pass, so they block all the other lanes and make people pass the red lights - The cars with the red on top are taxis. The ambulance was on a bus lane (wrong way) to go faster, the cops made all the taxis stop so the ambulance could come through (taxis are allowed to take bus lanes) - In the end, the discussion between the ambulance and the bikers was "Which service do you need to go? "ER" "It's in the back, follow me" + a maintenance guy on the right said stuff too but nothing revelant In France, health system and first responders are very different than the one you have in the US. Paris and Lyon's SAMU are even able to do surgery on the streets in case of a cardiac arrest (there are some videos on youtube about it - including one where they revived someone almost an hour after his cardiac arrest thanks to the firefighters doing CPR the whole time)

I am Parisian: The cars with red lights on the roof are just taxis, the red light indicates that they are busy, and the light appears bigger because of the poor quality of the image at that moment (due to paving stones of the road, historic site obliges). At the entrance to the hospital, the two gendarmes asked which department of the hospital, and the paramedic replied "emergencies", There was an additional difficulty for this escort, in France, police, gendarmerie and firefighter sirens are two-tone ("Pinnn-Ponn-Pinnnn-Ponn), ambulance sirens are three-tone (Pi-Pin-Pon -Pi-Pin-Pon) the Belgian ambulance siren is not recognized in traffic, and, for drivers in their car, it is more difficult to locate. On the “highway” that surrounds Paris (the one in the video). It is not a highway, the speed is limited to 70 km/h (43 miles/h) and it is very dense (1.1 million cars per day on a 35 km loop, on Fridays, traffic increases to 1.25 million cars/day), in addition, priority is for vehicles entering the right lane, and there is neither an acceleration lane to insert into traffic, nor a lane deceleration to exit: the action of the bikers slows down the traffic, and the escort does not take care of the limitation, at times, the ambulance can drive at 100 km/h (62 miles/h) between two lines cars more or less well aligned which brake at less than 10 km/h (6 miles). The paramedics must also avoid any shock to the patient.

this ambulance is going to the Necker hospital. It's an hospital entierly dedicated to pediatric care and the first of its kind when it was build in 1778. Fun fact: the stethoscope was invented in this hospital. It's one of the best facilities in Europe for complex pediatric care. The cars vith the red lights on top are just taxis. Red means they're running a fare, green means it's available. Also for the first part of the video, this isn't a highway per se, but what we call the "peripherique", which is a belt of road surrounding Paris with multiple ramps for entry points in the city or the suburbs.

In most European countries drivers must go to the closest side of the road and slow/stop when they hear emergency sirens.

One of my kids had to be transported to Necker when she was 11 months old. Very similar situation in heavy traffic with police escort though replace the ambulance with a fire brigade truck. I'm super grateful that so many people helped and did their best to save my little girl. And yes, she's fine. She's now 10 , and she cannot wait to enroll next year as a jeune sapeur pompier (youth fire brigade - minimum enrollment age is 11) to help others.

When we needed an escort, nobody thought about fist-bumps or high-fives. The arrival at the hospital is not the main goal but only the prelude of the most serious phase: To save the life of your passenger. I can only speak about myself, but as an ambulance driver my main feelings were worry and hope and when I had the rare opportunity to meet my escort and thank them for having done a good job, I always fought back tears. As long as I could drive, I could do everything in my power to help my passenger. But as soon as I had handed him/her over and the adrenalin level went down, I felt so helpless I was in no mood for excited gestures.

the French bikers from the national police and the gendarmerie are absolutely incredible...they are tightrope walkers on their motorbikes, I wouldn't run away with them chasing me, they are too strong!

Just for info, it is a normal traffic, even relatively low compared to usual traffic in Paris or Brussels. Brussels to Paris takes usually 5 hours, 1½h to do the 5 km to leave Brussels, 2h for the 230km of highway and 1½h to do the last 2 km in Paris. There are a few hospitals in France and Belgium that are "last resort" ones, when a patient is sent to Necker in France or Erasme in Belgium, it's because there is no other option.

as french I am use to see these motorcycles officers working... they are, on that video escorting this ambulance on the Boulevard Peripherique, which is 35 kms around Paris city... there are more than 1 million vehicules daily.. and theses officers are always making a brillant job.. they deserve our thanks for the job they are doing.. not only the escorts, but bad drivers chases, prisoniers escorts, land forces back up, and so on.. I have sincerely a great respect for them and at the end when you are asking what they said, at the entry of the hospital, the officers asked where the ambulance had to go, and the paramedic replied : "to the emergencies "

At the very end, the cop obsiously knows already well this hospital, is asking the ambulance driver in which service he's going inside the hospital, as it could be any. That kind of long range transfer is often for cardiology (typicaly for heart transplantation), or some kind of intensive care, you can loose a precious time when searching the service if you do not know the place. In short, the driver answers 'we'll enter by the emergencies' , then the cop says "ok, follow us" (good job, as a former ambulance medik I appreciate that behavior).

I am a big man of fifty years old, but it makes me emotional to see how these professionals do their utmost, certainly not without risk, to save the life of a child. very beautiful, thank you. 🙏

Hey ! Another French biker here . First of all I hope the kid survived and is doing well. Also want to reaffirm how skilful and amazing those French police (and Gendarmes who are actually affiliated to the army but police our roads and countryside) Riders are . I have , over the years witness the level of skill those riders have . They are very passionate motorcyclists who decide to serve their country doing what they love which is riding motorcycles . Soutien a nos motards pour leur travail quotidien.

Hey Ian, at 8:40 those black car with red light on the roof you saw are taxis. Red light signifying "occupied/booked". Taxis are most of the time black and/or just regular sedan car with roof signals and stickers on the side. And at 9:40, the ambulance driver was talking with the cop about wich hospital service they were going to and asked for the "emergencies" or "ER" for the US (I think it's what you call it in the USA)

Most likely, french police took the Belgian ambulance around Charles de Gaulle airport where the trafic gets generally heavier. They escort the ambulance (that has the funny "US siren") through the heavy circular boulevard around Paris and within Paris to the Necker hospital, that is specialized to treat sick children. As a former parisian, it's great to see how police took several places and streets facing oncomming trafic...

Hi there, just so you get an idea of the general workings of roads here in France, when driving it is crucial for every driver to react immediately when hearing sirens....each driver is totally responsable to participate in making room in every way possible for emergency véhicules.....working together 🥰 this is just as it is and never put in question❣️ Thanks for your video Love from France 😊

When you think the world is going to shit, it's heart warming to see hundreds of people working together to save a child's life. Kudos to the policeman, Great job.

For your comment avec the "smartness" of the police officer on his bike, in France, police forces receive extra training for being on motocycle road units. And we're talking month of training to be sure they will be the sharpest and most cool-headed ones in tight situations. They are also trained in working in coordination with other motorcycle units, as you saw around 12 :00 Basically, they look skilled because they are, and getting them on a bike rather than in a car isn't just for convenience, it's a work on it's own (and usually regarded as a reward). In the same way, the Gendarmerie units you will see on the French freeways are also specialized units trained in high speed chases (yes they happen... when it's deemed necessary)

The wee red car the police layed hands on is an Alfa Romeo MiTo.

Being "All-In" for the rescue of a child's life - RESPECT and LOVE to everyone involved. And I bet it didn't even cost the family a single dime...

F@#&** that was amazing. Take a bow! Now that's how a country should function. Prayers to the children in need.

I see exactly where this is. What the driver was looking for was the entrance for the emergency so the bikers told him to follow them at the end. Very civil and professionnal. It's another league. French and Belgians are very intertwined in Europe. On every level and for a very long time. Belgian people are French's closer brothers. We make fun of eacher others but always in a gentle and funny way . We French and Belgian people go along quite well (first thing first: same language, same culture, and a shared history).

Oh, one thing of note that I forgot to mention in my first comment : police motorcycle escorts in France are a two man job, each has a specific role : the bike in front is called the courier, his job is to clear out the road ahead and call out any audible regarding the navigation. The second bike rides much closer to the ambulance and is called the regulator : his job is to manage the pace of the convoy so it never stops, and ensures that the vehicles that made way for the convoy do not stray back in their path. They do these kind of escorts for ambulances on a daily basis in Paris because the traffic is a nightmare, but they can also be called for sensitive convoys such as high-risk prisoner transports, money transport or high value items such as art pieces for museums. Also, if the camera gets shaky towards the end, it's because the district they ride through has a lot of streets and avenues paved with cobblestone.

The situational awareness of the Police escorts are unbelieveable. Well done to all involved as it was all done superbly.

Escorts like that are so helpful in bigger cities. Esp with urgent international transfers. That Belgian ambulance was already on the road for hours

Those cars with red signs were just taxis on a reserved lane, moving backwards from the main lanes. That was just next to the Arc de Triomphe.

Like in most places in the world, police and especially the rapid response motorcycle police that we have here in Greece, go to guardian angel mode when it comes to children! They guide ambulances so the can make better times! Some videos that have come to light, show transport done in record time that seems unbelievable to all of us that know the time one would normally need due to traffic and the distance!! ! In some cases, if there is no time to wait for an ambulance they may use a police car, and in other cases, if it's just the motorcycles at the scene and no police car, one of the motorcycle police(there are usually two per bike) will even jump in the driver seat of the parent's car and drive. They have high speed driving training and are far more cool-headed, so they really deliver miracles!!! On top of that, these officers are so humble and do not seek credit! And to be just... Ambulance drivers are also badass here in Greece! They go above and beyond and will do everything they can to get the job done! Even in a crowded city like Athens! We see it all the time that real life heroes don't wear capes and we thank them for all they do!

They say at the end: where are the emergency entrances? the bikers say that they accompany them in front of the Emergency department entrances, I think you asked yourself the question why the vehicles have the lights on when it is daytime, the "daytime running lights" have been an obligation since around ten years on all new cars, it only lights up on the front of the vehicles and it must stop as soon as the night lights are on

Belgium has different sirens to France (as you can hear), probably another reason why they needed an escort.

the cars with red light are taxis.

Some additional information. 8:40 The cars with fixed red light are taxis (red is busy, green is available). 9:35 About the dialog between the police bikers (PB) and the ambulance driver (AD). As the ambulance was coming from far away, its driver had no idea where had to go and the emergency was still ongoing... During the siren: "Hello" PB1:"What medical service?" AD: "Emergency?" AD: "I will see" [I suppose the AD was tired and during its didn't had time to read the mission order in which it's he the service in which the child is expected] PB1: "It will be at the very back" [of the hospital site] AD: "Is it for emergencies?" PB1: "Yes, that's it, it's at the very back." AD: "Where? PB1: "Go ahead, go ahead!" PB2: Come on, follow me" AD: "We do that. We have to go to the emergency service anyway"

It wasn't a high five, but the policemen asked where the emergency station for ambulances was. I've been in the military police in France and I did some escorts like those. :)

"Very busy day on the highway here". Well, unfortunately, this is the Périphérique, the ring road around Paris. This kind of traffic is quite normal here... Otherwise, this run is amazing. French roads can be total chaos when there is so much traffic, and people seem to forget everything they have learned when an emergency vehicle is nearby. Hence the erratic behaviour of some. AT the end (9:27) the ambulance driver joked by turning on its siren for a short while :) But then, they discussed where to go. The ambulance just asked for the first aid entrance (urgence), and followed the police bike. They could have communicated that beforehand...

Bonjour, je suis Belge et cette situation n'est pas du tout inhabituelle. Les conducteurs français et belges sont habitués à s'écarter et s'arrêter au son d'une ambulance pour la laisser passer. Généralement, même à Bruxelles qui réputée pour être la ville la plus embouteillée du monde, il n'y a pas besoin de l'intervention de motards de la police. Le long des autoroutes, il y a même des panneaux qui expliquent que vous devez faire cela. Je précise aussi que je suis motard au quotidien et que ce comportement de s'écarter s'effectue aussi naturellement pour laisser passer les motos dans les embouteillages.

The police and gendarmerie bike unit have an amazing level, most of the bikers I know wished to enter but did not have enough competencies. Great guys. At the beginning of the video it is just a quiet day in Paris 😂 For information in several cases I did cross a red light when police, firemen or ambulances were coming behind me, this move is allowed

Guessing drivers comply because it's part of the driver training to get your licence.

Fun fact... syren cadence changes often in traffic to alert drivers to move out of the way.

-Hello. At first, it was not an highway, but the "Boulevard Périphérique", a ring that goes around the city, like in many other ones. -The lane with all the "red lit" cars is actually just a BUS lane, that Taxis can use. The lights were their "meter status" -9:32 : Cop : "Hello, which unit?" Ambulance driver : "Emergency" (which I do find funny as "emergency excorts go") Cop : "it's gonna be at the end, follow me, gogo" Also, SAMU : Service d'Aide Médicale d'Urgence (Medical Emergency aid(care) department)

Really interesting to see this reaction to what is part of my daily life, as a resident of the Paris suburbs. We forget what an incredible job these people do. And believe me, the traffic there was very light, on an exceptionally calm day.

French here. This is not the highway, this is the périphérique (the huge Paris ringroad that litterally surrounds the city of Paris). Speed limit on the périph' is usually 70 km/h or 43 mph. If you don't move when emergency vehicles tell you to, the penalty is -4 points on your drivers' licence (we have 12 points on our driver's licence) and 135€ fine. That's one of the highest penalties there is, so everyone does let them through. It's not because they're nice, it's just that they don't want to be fined.

The truck at 5:40: great work recognising what is happening and stopping in the right lane to let the ambo exit.

5:00. Handsy with the car. He was attracting attention and then telling the driver to stay on that side. Nothing so bad as a driver that suddenly realises he is in the wrong spot and then tries to correct...

I suggested this video some time ago, glad you found it! Definitely one of the best and most interesting ambulance ride video I've ever seen.

SAMU means Service d'aide médicale urgente (Emergency Service), it's a first responder for any french person who dials 15 or 112. It's a region based service which filters calls and regulates if needed the use of ambulances for urgent pre-hospitilazation service. For road accidents, SAMU uses SMUR (Service Medical Urgent Routier or Road Emergency Service) ICU-equipped ambulances for the same purpose of preparing patients for hospitalization. I believe that's the main difference with how US ambulances work, there they have the duty to only quickly transport the patient with less medical intervention. In France, it's common to see SAMU ambulances stop to treat critical issues on the road to hospital. So I don't know why you believe there's a child in this case, may be it's explained in the original video. FYI, cars with red lights on the roofs are taxis cabs in service, without clients the light would be green and off duty there would be no light at all. Taxis can drive on bus lanes. At the entry of the hospital complex, they don't congratulate themselves with high fives, they speak of searching for the emergencies entrance, the hospital is huge with streets among hospital's buildings.... I'm a Parisian BTW.

A long time ago I was trained as a Fire Brigade driver. I was taught "maximum progress driving". That isn't just driving fast, it's progressing fast through traffic. Much respect for all the emergency services drivers in this film.

cars red lights, are taxi "busy" sign.. If green, "free" !

The SEG (Special Escort Group) are also very interesting, they're part of the Metropolitan police in London, they're only used for top ranking officials, royals, heads of state etc. but they use some very interesting techniques to make sure whoever they're escorting never has to stop, like using whistles instead of sirens and not having a set route, they make up their route as they go, there's a very interesting video called 'Inconspicuous Ingenuity - Escorted by the Met Police SEG' all about them, this video includes footage from inside a vehicle being escorted which makes it very unique.

You may also notice a whistle blowing which is hard to hear over the sirens. This is typical of French police,the whistle cuts through traffic noise and catches attention in a different way from the two tones/ sirens

Knowing this might save the kid's life is incredibly thrilling.

All I could think about was the poor child who needed a three hour police escort of their ambulance to a foreign country to save their life. But yeah, beautiful work by the police.

WOW!!!! The bike cops did an amazing job! TOTAL RESPECT fo the cops and the ambulance crew! Mahadev Bless them all!

After the entry, the hospital is so big that the policemen ask where is the emergency hall! It is in Paris. I love so your comment!

The car with red light was an occupied taxi, the light is green when free

These guys on the bikes do the Tour de France and they also have the camera bikes too with the camera man on the back ofbikes and often see them standing up and even going around corners still standing while filming. You should check this out for some goodbike skills.

French here! The police man was just asking what service the ambulance needed to go and he respond to urgent care service. ✌️

French first responder here. Thanks for that video. :-) At the end, police just ask what service they need to reach. And ambulance said "we're goind to emergency service"

Hi Ian, I seem to remember that I'd recommended that video to you. In any case, great of you to react on it. Look at the (yet mild) traffic on the approach to Paris! The bikers are the Police and them and ambulances have absolute priority. The ambulance being Belgian, the police showed it the way too, in a foreign city. When they got to the hospital, the voice you heard was someone giving them directions to the emergencies entrance.

Fun fact, to be admitted at the "Garde nationale" (the fast responding unit on those bikes), riders used to need to clear a full circle around Paris in less than 15 minutes (35 kilometers or 21 miles in very heavy traffic), which is absolutely nuts. Those guys don't mess around !

Can you imagine how expensive the ambulance ride was going to be in the US if it had a police escort? Like 50+k bill just for the ride xD

At the end it wasn't a fist bump they asked him what service he was looking for then they guided him to it.

That's my job, unfortunately mostly for VIPs and very very rarely for medical emergencies. In city centers my worst nightmare is cyclists and pedestrians, they just think they are not part of the traffic and don't have to listen to Police commands. They are really a pain in the ass.

It reminds me my young times when I was volunteer for the Red Cross in Paris 🙂

The images are taken on the ring around Paris which is called the "périphérique" and it is one of the busiest roads at peak hours. It's basically like this every day.

The shacky cam is due to paved streets in Paris. It's fun to drive on those, especialy when you think carriage used the same road. Nothing to apologize for, man. Thanks for the video.

I once had police escort when the ambulance brought me to the hospital with a very acute case of hypothermia after some ahole punched me in the lake at a concert in the freezing winter.. I had to walk 2 miles before I could reach help and by then every step felt like a mile. My clothing was frozen wet and I collapsed right in front of the the emergency hut on the concert beach. I was 15 years old and was more thankfull then to the beautiful nurses that took care of me than the ambulance drivers and the police escort due to well known hormonal effects around puberty. Those nurses though, they gave me the kid vip treatment, constantly coming to banter and laugh with me, giving me treats and even teased me a bit because they thought it was cute how flushed I was. I don't really remember but some of my remaining body heat was probably concentrated in a very specific area underneath the thermal blankets the whole time. The ambulance brought me back to school when I was recovered and they did it with all the bells and whistles (as far as they were allowed) just to please the kid I was back then.

when they arrived at the hospital, the police asked the ambulance where it needed to go, it was the emergency "urgence", because hospitals here are often multiple buildings so they just wanted to know where to go.

The cars with reds or Green lights on the roof are Taxis, if the light is green, it's available, and if it's red, it's not!

I can tell those guys on motorcycles are heroes. All you showed in this video is in and around Paris. I live here (I didn't see the whole video from Belgium). A friend of mine and roommate used to be an ambulace driver, then an ambulance nurse. He told me about those guys who were so professional in the risk they were taking to save lives. It's a pleasure to see them here valued as they should. One thing missing is the speed at which they are able to handle situations. You can see it a bit at the exit lane : they began at a speed between 80 and 90 miles/h and went in front of the exit lane between cars (where you can see them disapear) to go onwards to tell the not-knowing front car drivers to go so as to free the space behind. I remember my friend talking about one time when he went at 100 miles/h in a cramped city center (on the main street which is straight), and the motorcycling police cutting all crossing trafic : there were four of them, 2 in the front and two in the back. When the two in the front had cut the trafic from one crossroad, the two in the back would come in the front to cut the next crossraod, and so on. All of that requires of course a lot of skill in driving, but also a lot of team trust and training.

We do it like this in europe. Love your beard moustache 👍 greetings from belgium

We are taught to give way to ambulances in tunnels,etc. If you can't give way, you just drive faster if possible and make way as soon as possible. I'm driving regularly in the big cities of Belgium and most people understand these rules there. Ambulances will always pass between second and third lane (as you have noticede) since there are the least amount of trucks and traffic goes faster on average. Staying left too long can cost you a fine btw. Roads are wide enough to have three cars on two lanes (our cars are not that big ;) ) In a tunnel things get close sometimes but in too narrow tunnels, trucks are not allowed what will make things like this easier. I have never seen a stressed out ambulance driver tbh. I had some encounters with ambulances and they are very calm even. As a patient, you will never notice that they are driving fast or abrupt. In this case, it must have been a really urgent transport, could have been for organ transplant (although I think they use heli's for that?), or a child that needed urgent specialised treatment and wasn't stabilised or the heli's were already taken.

Used to live indowntown Paris, this trafic is pretty fluid, usually, meaning from 6h30 to 21pm the trafic is awfull. Sometimes it can take 2h30 to make 10 miles to go to work or to go home from work

I didn't realize the intense level of awareness these bikers are performing, that's really impressive !

I was a FF in Sydney's CBD for over 20 years and drove a truck under emergency conditions well over 5000 times in that period. It isn't as hard as you may think because people are very aware of your presence. The most stressful part is judging distance because you have to squeeze through gaps between vehicles and poles etc, sometimes with mere millimetres to spare on either side. You'd be surprised what adrenalin allows the average person to achieve under stress. It sharpens your senses dramatically.

I used to be an emergency responder (traffic department) in the Police in Scotland. The level of training we do is extremely high and it stays with you. I would recommend any driver get a copy of the book called Roadcraft, which is used as a training manual for the Police. It is full of wonderful advice and direction which would improve the driving experience.

For people who want to know what they said between 9:33 and 9:44 In english: "Hello, which department? Emergency, I'll have a look. It must be at the back. Yes, it's at the back, go ahead, go ahead. Come on. We're going in through the emergency anyway." In french: "Bonjour, quel service ? Urgence, je vais voir. Cela doit être tout au fond. Oui c'est tout au fond, vas-y, vas-y. Aller venez. On rentre par les urgences de toute façon." They were looking for emergency department as they just entered the hospital. I'm french so translation should be accurate xD

Cars with a red static light on paris road are taxis, in europe taxi aren't yellow, they just have a sign and a light ln the roof indicating kf they are free or not. Great vid !

SAMU = Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente (Urgent Medical Aid Service)

Translation of what they say at the end : Policeman: Hello, what service? Ambulance answers: emergencies, I'll check... Policeman: It's going to be at the end of the road, (Talking to his colleague: go ahead) To the ambulance: come come Ambulance: we go in the emergency... And they move

the cars with red lights are taxi, the red light means that the taxi is occupied, either on ride or standing for a scheduled passenger

Not only is it to expect from drivers in Europe to make room for emergency vehicles with blue lights and sirens activated. Every driver is legaly obliged to do so and make room as fast as possible. Non compliance even trough unattention can result in heavy fines or in some really negligent cases to imprisonment from a few months up to some years

Cars with the red lights are Taxis ! the Red light means it's occupied, it turn green when the taxi is free of customers.(It should state the word "taxi" and the city wich the driver is from. Covered in black when not in use) Its actually a thing that is mandatory for Taxis all accross France. I believe it was instaured as a way of making things easyer for customers to see wich taxi is available as well as making it fair for all taxi drivers. In France taxi drivers are required to buy their own car so this reglemented light is also a way to make a taxi regocnizable for customers as they most likely don't have any special livery.

I'm French and parisian so not the best respectful driver in the world but you see cops on bikes and ambulance you move because you know it's a life or death situation.

When they left the "highway" to take the ramp up right, the street narrowed and the traffic got havier. The escort disapeared because the best thing was to get to the crossing ahead to stop traffic from other incoming streets just to clear the line where was the ambulance. When the video is bumpy it is because some historic streets in the center of Paris are covered with paving stones. When in the hospital, they stopped to ask if the ambulance was going to the normal entrance or to the urgency door as many hospitals in France have a special entry for urgency cases.

The cars with red lights are Taxis. Their overoof light is red when busy / booked, green when available.

Lot of trafic you say? LOL that's NOTHING in that place ( porte de la chapelle Paris). I did those kind of transport not so long ago. I was a driver for the irish ambassy in Paris and i drove a minivan following the ambassador sedan from Le bourget airport (private airport north of Paris) to the Irish ambassy the plane arrival was at 7pm (rush hour in paris). 2 police motorbikes and and a security car were escorting us. It was so intense, i'll never forget that day. We were driving so fast so close to other cars side mirrors, i almost peeded in my pants!

the cars with the red lights on them are taxis, and when they arrived and talked to someone they were asked where they were going exactly, since its not a local ambulance, the workers there didn't know exactly where to direct them.

The cars with red lights are taxis. In Paris taxis are normal cars, so their distinctive sign is a little thing on the roof with letters saying "TAXI" that are lit up in green when the taxi is free, and in red when the taxi is occupied. The driver can turn on/off the light and turn it green or red from the inside of the car (:

9:40 Belgian here... He didn't fistbumb or say thank you. He asked where they needed to be and if it was for the Emergency entrance. Then the cop said 'lets go'

Here in Portugal, we do anything in our power to let an ambulance go, even if it means to ruin our cars against the sidewalk or rails. Great video!

There have been times in Australia where ambulances have been on the way to, or back from an emergency to have other drivers at intersections ignoring the sirens or running red lights. The end result being a crash or even worse an ambulance that gets flipped over.

When they stopped close to the arrival, the police officer asked where they need to go, and the driver answered he had to go to emergency. The cars with the red lights on the top were taxis ;)

8:44 the cars with little light on the top are taxis. Green lights if they're free, red ones if they already have a customer.

9:30 : French police biker yelling "Hello ! What service ?!" Ambulance driver : "emergency" Police biker : Ok, it's ahead, follow me, go go ! Ambulance driver : We are entering by emergency in every case

In France, I have seen this many times everywhere. And naturally, all motorists pull over because we know that it is almost always for injured or sick people, or an accident which has just occurred further down the road.

- Red lights over cars in Paris are licensed taxi cabs - At the end of the run they asked the ambulance driver what service it was, to which he responded Emergency Room. Then they gave the specific direction. - SAMU means "Service d'Aide Médicale Urgente" which would be translated by "Urgent Medical Help Service" it's like Emergency in the US. Nothing children related. - There are areas in Paris where the road is stricly made of pavements instead of asphalt which is quite odd but makes it quite unique in the end.

@9:30 Belgian ambulance driver doesn't know the hospital site and asks for a bit more help as he's got to present the child patient at the entrance of the emergency service. Police officer answers to follow him as he'll show the way. Nice vid Bro, greetings from Belgium.

'Theres a ton of traffic' its a pretty calm moment of the day by Parisian standards 😅

And the red light on top of a few cars inside Paris, it was taxis that had clients in. It is green if they are available and yellow if on break

About the cars with red lights at the top: these are just taxis. Red light when the taxi is used, green when it is available

He was asked what hospital services he was going. The ambulance driver answered he was going to the emergency room.