American Reacts to Some of The BIGGEST German Emergency Vehicles... 

Thank you for reacting to our Video at 2:20, we really appreciate it! 🚒 This truck is the highest one in service with a public fire department in Germany at the moment. Greetings from Germany! ☺️

First and last are specialized vehicles for chemical plant fires. The jet engine units are a more civilized version of the tank-with-jet-engines used in Kuwait in 1992

The first convoy is a special kind of firefighters (Werkfeurwehr written on their vehicles), which basically serve a specific company. They belong to pharmaceutical giant Bayer, you can see the title Chempark on the sides of the vehicles, which is the name of their giant chemical plant. These kind of firefighters and their equipment would be specialized for fires and dangers they could encounter. As you can imagine, fires in a giant chemical plant full of dangerous chemicals could be catastrophic compared to regular household fires, that's why there's so many of them with big specialized equipment. The 90m mast fire truck has RWE logo, which is a giant utility/energy company, so they have special equipment for fires in power plants. Lastly the fire truck with jet turbines is used at airports. Crashed airplanes with leaking fuel can be hard to put out. The last showcase of vehicles also belong to a special firefighting service of an another chemical company called Evonik, you can see Evonik on all of the vehicles.

The Convoi and the Jetengine truck all belong to factory firebrigades (Werksfeuerwehr). So they fight industrial fires, like in oil refineries or anything with toxic/explosive/highly flammable stuff The Jetengine is used to hold down fires, chemicals or toxic gases especially over wide areas. It can also spray other stuff like foam to suffocate a fire

I work for the company that manufactures those aerial platforms at 2:22 and 3:58. The first one goes up to 70m high, it is brand new and was delivered this year. The second one is 90m, pretty common in wind turbine maintenance. And it actually doesn't move at this altitude, even with 45km/h wind it can take at it's maximum. The company is Bronto Skylift and we have the record for the highest truck mounted aerial platform in the world at 112m.

2:55 pretty sure its a Scania 90m is roughly 300 feet 11:00 at the start of the clip he says its designed for stuff like chemical fires. And its designed to not only spray water but it even has a tank reserved for foam so it can spread an aerosolized foam/water mixture. Its also mentioned that the turbines runs off normal gas but can also be powered by other fuel sources such as NLG etc.

In Germany the Vehicles of the PUBLIC (not privat like for Companies) are standardized for the most Things. There are different Class with different Functions, in a Category it has standardized Utilities at standardized Places in the Vehicle. There is a Rule how much HP the Engine has to have as Minimum, the Colors are standardized to 2 Red-Tones as Basic (RAL 3024 & RAL 3000 if i remeber right) and NOBODY ELSE is allowed to paint a privat Car in that Color, it is even standardized what is written on at what Places and how big the Letters have to be! If you see "Werkfeuerwehr" it is the Fire-Department of a Company. At the Beginning of your Video it said "Werkfeuerwehr", "Chem-Park" and the Numberplates started with "LEV", so i guess those are the Firetrucks of the Pharma-Company Bayer-Leverkusen that are specialized to the Requirments you need for chemical Industry. For that Vehicle with the Jet-Engines Wikipedia Germany says: "Fire fighting turbines are primarily used in the chemical industry and refineries, tunnels and subway shafts, airports and recycling plants." I have see a Pair of Jet-Engines mounted on a Tank (!!!) as Prototype fighting against Tunnel-Fires.

If I understand correctly, the turbine car is used to cool fires and knock down chemical clouds.

Thanks for reaction to our Video (the 1st one at 0:37)! :D This happened after a show day from the Currenta plant fire brigade at the Chempark Leverkusen where they drove back onto the factory premises. Greetings from Germany :)

The largest fire trucks are those for extinguishing industrial fires . A normal fire truck has 2.5 tons of water and fire trucks for industrial fires have 10 tons of water.The largest are fire trucks used at airports. Rosenbauer Panther rescue and fire-fighting vehicle with side number 6, type 8x8 GCBA 18/110. it's a real monster. Although it weighs over 50 tons, two 725 HP engines allow it to reach a speed of 135 km/h and accelerate to 80 km/h in 22 seconds. The vehicle is equipped with a self-defense system - it can enter a pool of burning fuel without any threat to firefighters. This car has two water tanks with a capacity of 18,000 liters and a foam concentrate with a capacity of 2,100 liters. The capacity of the car pump is 11,000 l/min and the capacity of the main monitor is 9,000 l/min with a range of 100 m. The capacity of the bumper monitor is 3,600 l/min.

11:15 The turbine turns the water into an aerosol. The heat exchange between the water aerosol and the flames is maximized by the now large surface area of the much smaller water droplets. In this way, the cooling effect is very high and the fire is extinguished very quickly due to this loss of energy. This is very useful for burning airplanes, overheated chemical reactors, puddles of burning liquids, deflagrations of all kinds of dusts and, as you said, burning forests.

First convoy was an industrial FD heading back from a PR event where they invited filmers. The 90 meter platform is the tallest one in Germany; Used at an industrial FD as well. 90m equals 300 ft in height The one from Hamburg is the tallest one at a municipal FD in the country. The 70 m equals 230 ft

I'm German and I know a lot about emegency vehicles. Some in this video are only used for industry fires like the one with the turbines. The 90 meter "Teleskopmast" (translation: telescopic mast) is a special vehicle for very tall industry buildings. I think it is the only one that tall in Germany. Normally there are 30m tall "Drehleitern" (translation: turnable ladders - a truck with a extendable 30m long ladder with a basket at the end. Used to rescue people (or cats) from buildings or trees even if they are not so tall. It's also used to pump water to that height to extinguish fires from above). The standard fire engines are "Hilfsleistungslöschgruppenfahrzeuge" (transation: fire engine with equipment for technical rescue; I know we Germanns have lots of very compilcated long words). They can usually carry up to 9 firemen, 4-6 are usually on board, and contain 2000l of water and a pump with all the firefighting equipment. These trucks are a lot smaller than in the US, only about 7-10 meters long. I this video you saw only special vehicles used from industry fire stations. And all vehicles that are allowed to drive the puplic roads in Germany have to weigh less than 40 tons. The are a few exeptions but not in this video. Maybe the 90m one was a bit heavier.

07:09 Those are called cooling towers. Many power plants, not just nuclear ones have them. Power plants usually work by heating up water to steam and running that steam through a turbine wich creates electricity. Those cooling towers are there to condense the steam back into water so it can be cycled back through the system. Hope that helps. :)

Those are mainly company run fire brigades, that huge companies maintain. You can tell that they have deeper pocket than the publicly funded city fire brigades. Also they tend to operate very purpose focused vehicles, like the water curtain engine, or the truck with the 90m (300ft) platform. That is operated by RWE, a mega big electricity company in German. Those towers you asked about are water cooling towers of power plants. Nuclear or other. All nuclear power plant in Germany are now taken offline, but still exist of course.

1:04 That's a platoon from the Chempark plant fire brigade The Word: WERKSFEUERWEHR means, that is the Factory Fire fighter brigade by a big company with her own infrastructure (how a little city). This can often be seen at companies in the energy sector, or in the chemical industry, at aircraft manufacturers, at large shipbuilders or car manufacturers, depending on the size of the site where work is carried out.

I can tell 90m ARE pretty high when you´re just in that little basket. I had a bungee jump once from 100m and yeah, this was frightening. Kudos to everyone working in that height!

That first clip is probably an industrial fire. The vehicles are marked as Werkfeuerwehr Chempark. Now, you need to know here that, unlike in the US, in Germany, fire brigades are generally volunteer only. A few big cities have their own professional fire brigades, but the vast majority are volunteers. Now, these on the other hand are a third category, a private fire brigade owned by a company, presumably the one running the Chempark. These are common if you have big industrial sites. They're often also professionals, though, if anyone at the company is a volunteer firefighter, they too might be part of the brigade. Afterall, when fighting fires, there is no such thing as too much personnel, or at least, you generally want more rather than less.

In freedom units: 90m is the length of 92 AR-15. Or the lenght of an American Football field. 100 yards = 91.44 meters 10m = 10.94 yd

The truck at 7:34 with the jet engines is specialized for fires at chemical plants or airports. Where you have to cover a large area quickly. The water is for demonstration. In case of a fire with chemical agents they would use specialized extinguishing foam. The turret can be mored 180 degrees horizontally , and 45 degress vertically. It cam pump 8,000 liters per minute (Just some German tanslations on the fly ^^)

11:30 The Truck is used by the "Werkfeuerwehr" Which is a company Firefighting (Private) Its most likely for some chemical company or something like that.

90 meters is 295 ft tall thats really really tall

the 1st clip is Werkfeuerwehr (factory fire brigade) Chempark Leverkusen. They belong to one of Germany's biggest chemical industry plants. the 2nd is Berufsfeuerwehr Hamburg. Professional fire brigades of large cities usually have heavier equipment than the volunteer brigades. Usually, big cities have professional volunteer fire brigades while smaller towns usually only have volunteers. the 3rd is Werkfeuerwehr RWE Neurath. They belong to a large, coal-fired power station. 90 meters is 295 feet. Enough for reaching at least 25 stories high. The fat, round tower is a condensation tower, often simply called cooling tower. the 4th in Werkfeuerwehr Evonik Rheinfelden, another huge chemical industry plant. The turbine truck is designed to fight even the most extreme chemical, gas and oil fires. Afaik the use of jet engines to blow out extreme fires is a French invention. It was famously used in Kuweit 1991 to stop burning oil wells.

11:00 these machines creating a kind of mist to collect particles (like gases) out of the air.

I really thought some of that are Fake but nope. I live in Germany and also are member of a volunteer fire Department and ive never Seen so Big fire engines. But as soon as i saw WF for Werkfeuerwehr or factory fire Brigade i realized how this can happen- they arent federal fire brigades. They are running by some big company- like the next factory fire Brigade near me is run by Nordwest Oelletung- an Oil company

The firecars were from factory firebrigades. Big companies who produce flameable materials, chemicals, fuel, and so on have their own prefessional firebrigade. Refineries, companies like BASF or Bayer, nuclear plants we had and so on. The jet turbine is for getting rid of gases. The high pressure foam is for -materials you can't extinguish with water- fires on which liquid water is not effective.

Great video. Some questions answered: - the trucks in column are private company trucks for special jobs. - Hamburg, 40 tons, Scania. Community fire departmens have some specialised cars, too. Depending on tadks and budget. - 19 meters, almost 60 ft. - this jet system was used after the first Irac war. And with russian plane turbines. They had no other use after the downfall of the GDR. The system here can work around an hour with tge onboard tank. But you can couple it to a hydrant and use it as long you want to. - Nissan Pick-Up (no joke), King Cab with 1 and ahalf cabin or Navara in the luxury version.

2:35 the vehicle is brand new. It went into service one or two weeks ago

In Germany we even have tanks and robots used in forest fires. The tanks are old Bundeswehr Marder1 A3 and old NVA T-55, converted and painted in fire department red, one even with jet engines as far as I know which are usually rented from the "contract company" "DIBUKA" for large fires that are difficult to reach

The turbin one is called TULF (TUrbinenLöschFahrzeug = turbin extinguish vehicle). It is a class of ALFs (AerosolLöschFahrzeuge = Aerosol extinguish vehicles) and are for big industrial fires or gas leakages. There are some beautiful looking ones, like the "AGLF Hurricane", "ALF Big Wind" or the "Caterpillar Jtaltractor - Pozhtechnika". They are rare, only on some few industry havy areas. According to Wikipedia only 9 in germany. Problem is the high maintaining cost, lack of usecases (big fires in a wide open area and high water support) and it needs specialiced extra fire truck or multiple regular fire trucks to pump all the water it needs to it. But IF something happend (where you would use one of them) they are worth it.

For a quick approximate conversion to feet from meters, just do times 3 and then add 10%. 90*3 is 270 + 27 and you get 297 feet. (which is just 1 and a bit feet of the exact result) Even with larger numbers it remains relatively easy as you don't need to be precise since you're just trying to visualize the distance, not launch space shuttles. 3492 meters is about 10500, add 10%, so about 11550 feet, etc, it's 100 feet off, but close enough to get a measure of the the distance.

2:22 Okay, i live in Hamburg, but i've never seen THIS one before! Must be a new one since i only knew the two similar trucks we had that were dark red. My guess is, that the older 50 meter telescope trucks are replaced by this big boy. (And probably there will be two of the new one too since the two trucks are stationed on one side of the Elbe river that goes through the city.) EDIT: Okay, after a short research i found out that this truck is literally BRAND new and has a height of actually 70 meters! (Thats 230 feet.) And its not even in active duty by now, since there is first a training on this vehicle for the firefighters who will use it since its a complete different truck than the ones they have now. (Here is a clip of the same scene and "welcome" of the new truck and you can actually see the one it will replace as well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HgI3a_R0xbM.html ) The base is a Scania (like the actual generation of fire trucks in Hamburg) and the Telescope is made by Bronto Skylift. And yeah, the 90 meter (295 feet) telescope truck is actually a one-of-a-kind for a coal power plant from RWE. The most common heights for ladders or telescopes in germany are between 30 and 50 meters. (100-160 feet) everything above is uncommon/special ordered. 50 is the most "uncommon" size, 70 meters is actually pretty rare too and 90-100 meters are actually SO rare they are usually unique vehicles that are custom build. And the trucks that are 50 meters and higher usually have a device at the top to measure the wind-speed so they know when its safe to go all up or when the wind is too strong. 8:20 Yes, those are jet turbines. This vehicle is a so called "Aerosol fire engine" (Aerosollöschfahrzeug in german.) that uses the exhaust of the jet engine to blow water into a fire or a cloud of hazardous chemicals usually at chemical plants and factories that either have a big fire hazard or use dangerous chemicals. (Or both!) It has a range up to 100 meters what is VERY far. Here is the wikipedia article for this kind of vehicle: de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerosollöschfahrzeug

Reactor towers, sigh, just cooling towers if you don't have direct trough cooling. You should do some Videos on nuclear energy, :) Here are some nice older documentation videos on early types of reactors. www.youtube.com/@whatisnuclear/videos

in germany we say geiles video

Im from Germany and the one with the jet engines is used for chemical fires and air ports

Yeah these are cool, and then there is my village firefighters with a mercedes van from ~1980 that has trouble to get up a hill with a full water tank

11:10 Aerosol fire engines: areas of application for rapid and massive firefighting in large fires - Firefighting on chemical plants (especially petrochemical plants) - Precipitation of toxic gases and vapors - Cooling objects at risk of fire - Ventilation of tunnels

The vehicle with the engines is used to extinguish large industrial fires and at airports. A fire basically requires 3 components: a fuel, oxygen, and the required ignition temperature. If you eliminate one of these components, the fire will go out. The vehicle can generate a very fine mist of water that can effectively supercool the fire site. When foam agent is added, the (air) oxygen is separated from the fuel.

These big "chimneys" actually are cooling towers. The hot water is sprayed into sort of a Trickle grate. Cold air is led into the tower from openings in the bottom and cools down the water that is collected in a basin under the tower and used then for cooling again. The white "smoke" simply is moist hot air that condense in the cooler surrounding air. Yes, it's the same thing used in nuclear plants but this plant is, I think, a power plant fired with natural gas, because here in Germany all nuclear plants are shut down.

11:09 it's used for fighting fire's in chemical plant's

the turbine trucks are used for Airports and Chemical plants...for forest fires they are usally mounted on an old tank chassis, cause cross country capabillity

can you make a video where you react to German warning sirens Siren test :)

You should check the German THW :D

Ian , you should watch up ``Technische Hilfs Werke´´ or THW they have some pioneer vehicles.

Ivguess about more than 92 yards😊

I have seen the turbines at work on a chemical fire when some styrofoam storage by the company ISOVER caught fire. Its really crazy and super loud. They also get used in tunnels to cool down and extinguish tunnel fires. As far as I know the turbine extinguisher was invented by the firedepartement of BASF. There is also at least one stationed at the Gotthardt-Tunnel.

3:00 The fire engine from Hamburg is from Scania.

@4:35 There is no such thing as nuclear towers. The things you saw are cooling towers, or condensation towers. They are used to cool down the secondary loop in thermal power plants when other heat sinks (such as rivers or lakes) are not available. They can be part of any thermal power plant. Nuclear reactors are housed in buildings that are much smaller, usually they are cylindrical with a dome on top. @11:00 they said they use it to wash out dangerous chemicals and gases from industrial accidents and the like and also to cool down industrial equipment like chemical tanks and such.

They used a similar waterjet thing in the Iraq war to extinguish burning oil wells. They took a russian tank and attached two MIG turbines instead of the turret. They called it Big Wind 🙂

I am sure russia would want some of those at their refineries theses days.

pretty sure that the jet engine fire fighter was a Hungarian thing first

Sure this goes without saying but they are not jet engines Just super jet fans for moving air and helping make water droplets smaller and spread more

Realy Cool Hairstyle! ^^ It looks so Fresh aand open. ^^

00:36 - These are fire engines from a chemical factory. The sign/plate shows LEV- and that stands for Leverkusen. So it is probably the Bayer/Chempark factory fire department. 02:10 - Yes sir, this is from Hamburg (BTW, I prefer Cheeseburg, just a little joke on the side 🤣). This telescopic mast vehicle (TMF 70) weighs 40 tons, has a maximum working height of 70 meters and is 12.50 meters long. Five-axle extended chassis of the P 500 B series from Scania. Price of the new purchase: around 1.9 million euros. I can't find anything about 90m. But there is a difference between arm length and rescue height. I think the arm length is 90m while the safe max rescue height is 70m. Our ladder truck is named DLK 23/12 (23m rescue height at 12m distance from the building), but the ladder length itself is 30m. Calculate the diagonal positioning. 07:33 - Aerosol turbo fire engine from the Evonik company fire department in Rheinfelden (Evonik is one of the world leaders in specialty chemicals). The engine can spray water volumes of up to 8,000 liters per minute over a distance of around 120 meters. It can help pull down toxic aerosols or cool objects, like oil tanks. The fuel tank for the turbine lasts about 1 hour and can be refilled with kerosene or petroleum. 12:21 - KdoW KomanDOWagen is the command vehicle from the head chef / leader of the Evonik company fire department. The sign/plate shows LÖ- and stands for Lörrach (Lörrach district in Baden-Württemberg). 12:34 - ELW EinsatzLeitWagen is the command vehicle (management, organization, documentation, communication, request additional fire engines) at emergency locations, like a command post in the US. But this is a small vehicle. There are much larger ones, like a big semi-trailer. 12:54 - Werkstattwagen = A small workshop vehicle 13:07 - Mannschaftstransportwagen = Personnel transport vehicle 13:11 - HLF HilfeleistungsLöschFahrzeug = Firefighting vehicle with additional technical load. It has a water tank for extinguishing and material for technical rescue, e.g. traffic accidents 13:16 - ULF UniversalLöschFahrzeug = universal fire truck. It is a special fire engine and therefore a non-standard fire engine (in Germany). Special extinguishing materials can be powder, foam, CO2 or other gases, powders or liquids. 13:25 WLF WechselLaderFahrzeug = A swap loader vehicle is a vehicle chassis with a hook and can be used to load various of containers. There are many different containers, such as devices, technical equipment, assistance materials, foam, sand, powder, hoses, special pumps, Respiratory protection aparatures & refilling devices, etc. Command posts, decontamination or injury shelters are also built into some containers. 13:34 - The turbo fire engine already shown at 07:33 13:38 - GW-L Gerätewagen Logistik = It is primarily used to transport emergency services, equipment and other materials in connection with fire department operations. There is a tail lift at the rear. It can be loaded with small roll containers. These roll containers can contain all sorts of materials. 13:42 - RTW ReTtungsWagen = Just an ambulance 14:00 - Werkschutz = vehicle for the factory security Greetings from a former firefighter in Germany, c.u. Frank

Cooling towers ;)

could need a test of my vocabulary from time to time... video ALF Aerosol - Fire Truck (Löschfahrzeig "Extinguishing (pain to type...) Vehicle") The Aerosol Fire Truck - short ALF but exhaust/smoke or turbo extinguisher is a fire truck that disperses water and with high pressure / over long distances up to 120 m blows it into a source of fire to extinguish a fire or bind(?) out of the air for that can in the exhaust of the 2 movable streamturbines water or extinguishing foam be added bot turbines are on a 180° rotation platform - can be moved 45° up and 10° down the tasks are i.e.fast and intensive fire fighting at giant fires, fire fighting at chemical plants, binding(?) of toxic gases and fumes, cooling of objects in danger of catching fire, airing/cooling of tunnels the turbo extinguisher of the factory/plant fire brigade of Evonik industries in Rheinfelden Baden is on a chassis from man - the installations from dicosy (?) part of the equipment - 2 steel turbines with 6000 PS each, pump 8000 L / minute, extinguishing foam "add-er" with 2000 L foam on board mainly the water supply through "A type hoses" and than through 4 hollow jet pipes in the exhaust stream injected controlled form the control center int he car or through remote control depending on the wind the water aerol can be carried acros long distances ear protection is mandatory cause "the deployment turns into an airport" the turbines cant only be powered by kerosene but with other fuels like petroleum too the tank suffices for 1 hour runtime but can be fueled from the outside and run this way continuously without break our mascot for the deployments is like the alien of the same name ALF video Einsatzfahrzeuge emergency vehicles (rough translations/commentary added if no english counterpart (normed DIN 14507,14530) Kommandowagen (KdoW 10) "command car" for the mobile leadership of the deployment (small tasks) Einsatzleitzwagen (ELW 11) "command car for bigger tasks Werkstattwagen (17) - repair-shop car Mannschaftstransportwagen (MTW 19) - personal transporter Hilfeleistungsfahrzeug (HLF 44) - car with technical equipment like jackhammer, generators, ladders, respiratory protection surveillance equipment, chemical hazard suits, etc.......... depending on type/job Universallöschfahrzeug (ULF 29/1) - "universally extinguisher" Universallöschfahrzeug (ULF 29/2) - "universally extinguisher" Wechselladerfahrzeig (WLF 65/1) - transporter for specialized container for situations with toxix substances etc... Abrollbehälter Gefahrgut (AB-GG) customizable container with equipment for dealing with hazardous substances Wechselladerfahrzeig (WLF 65/2) - transporter for specialized container for situations with toxix substances etc... Abrollbehälter Trockenlöschmittel (AB-Tro) "fire entinguishing powder" Aerosollöschfahrzeig (ALF 70) - see previous video GW Logigistik (GW L1/74) - gw logistics Rettungswagen (RTW 83) - ambulance E-SMART Werkschutz - plant/factory security last video evonik Zikun Turbolöscher (turbo extinguisher from zikun) not much to translate - maybe the specs at the end but mostly numbers/self explaining **************************** not as bad as I expected but yeah my vocabulary needs some more refreshing (and I much for time for it...) mfg Olli

Turbines Wide spray for cooling and removal of Oxygenation of combutible material You can spray over burning doorway and people can actually walk out, planes etc direct into windows etc floor 2 and 3

Little tip to calculate Meters in Feet: 3ft = 0.91m, so if you want to calculate it roughly, take the meters x 3 90m -> x3 -> ~270ft Works better for shorter distances, because it's actually 295ft

90 m = 98 yds Truck with jet engines: As far as I understood this is used besides fire protection also for down cooling. Mainly used for chemical industrie.

12:55 Most Germans would call it a "Pick-up"

Bayer Leverkusen is a huuuge chem company. One of the biggest in the world. Their chemical park produces everything. So their firebrigades have to be equipped to deal with virtually any kind of fire or spill. Which is the reason why there are so many different types of vehicles in the first clip. Werksfeuerwehr= company fire brigade are required once a production site reaches a certain size or volatility in products. Public fire brigades simply can't be trained or equipped to fight industrial sized fires or spills, especially when they don't know about the components involved. In the worst case a fire brigade untrained or unknowingly might add water to an alkali metal fire resulting in a very big boom. 7:10 the word you might have been looking for could be cooling towers. This was at the power station Neurath. Nope, not a nuclear power plant but a brown coal power plant. It's a shame that these poluting power plants are still active in Germany. They are among the most environmentally damaging power plants despite all the filters incorporated in them. But due to their value as sulphuric acid producers (part of the filter works changed the SO2 in the exhaust via various catalytic stages to the acid) which is massively important in a large number of chemical processes they are still being used. Oh, did I mention they also produce electricity?😂 7:20 the depicted truck with the turbines. The narrator describes that there are two turbines mounted on a 45 degree swivel mount, up to 45 up and 10 degrees down. They are designed to fight large scale fires, chemical fires in chemical production sites, or the dropping out of aerosolized particles from the air, as well as introducing solvents for poisonous gases and vapors to neutralize them from the air. They are also used to advance a water front into forest fires and tunnel fires. The base of the truck is from MAN, the top swivel from Ikosi (I don't know that company, so I may have misspelled it, sorry). The horsepower of the two turbines was covered up, but the pumps each seem to be able to pump 8000 liters, roughly 2200 gallons, per minute. The truck carries 2000 liters of foam, the water supply gets in via A sized pipes. The water gets injected into the turbine exhaust to create a huge, high speed water vapor cloud that both cools the temperature and blows away flames from combustible materials. The controls are operated either from within the vehicle under cover or from a mobile remote control. The turbines have an onboard kerosene tank large enough for one hour of operation. They are however multi-fuel turbines and can even take standard petroleum but at lesser efficiency.

The Merck plant fire department in Darmstadt (Germany) had a telescopic mast with a working height of 110 m. Its stabilizers was much larger than the one shown here on the 90 m mast. One would have to see if it still exists.

Hey. I'm German. These trucks are from the "Werksfeuerwehr" or in English "factory fire department". It is responsible for protecting factories, businesses and industrial centers. It is almost only used for operations on industrial sites. Only in rare cases are they alerted to operations that have nothing to do with the factory.

Although there are some standard vehicles in Germany, many of them are custom-built vehicles like the one at the beginning of the video. There are vehicles and trained personnel for almost every conceivable situation. There is also the THW (Technisches Hilfswerk) - which is blue - which has wheel loaders the size of a house, for example, or pumps that are as big as trucks. For example, every local authority and smaller town is required to have a command vehicle, which is a vehicle with computers for managing operations; in addition, every district and larger town needs an ELW2, which is already truck-sized and offers space for a whole staff of commanders, communication, now including drones and much more. The fire departments in Germany is really well equipped.

Not exhausts... Radiators for power plant.. Water vaporization.., can sometimes look kinda like smoke ..

Just imagine they could turn on the Jet Engines on the German Autobahn. After service this would be my favorit Truck to turn it into a Motorhome. ;) Germany - Italy = 30 Minutes

You missed the "TULF". Turbinenlöschfahrzeug

The jet. Sends out 1000 liters ( 269 gallons) a minute. Chemical or oil fires are better blown out by force then just getting a little wet.

You can see a similar Fire Truck in Ludwigshafen .. the BASF Turbolöscher .. it is at an Chemical Plant there .. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-1TIkNRp_5X4.html

0834 8000 liter per minute..translate for USA 2,116.4 USA gallon oper minute pump of water.

Ian - the one with the double front steering axles and a steering axle in the back in the second clip was definately a Scania, that front-end is iconic!

Hey, you should look German DLRG (Lifeguard) Vehicles, they reallly have fascinating Vehicles

The first time I heard of jet engines used to put out fires was 1991 when after the second gulf war, the Iraquis had set the Kuwaiti oil wells on fire. For the wells the Americans couldn't put out using explosions, the Hungarians mounted Russian Mig-21 engines onto the trunks of Russian T-34 tanks, injected Water into the air stream and blew the fires out.

2:25 This is the new "Teleskopmastfahrzeug TMF 70" ("telescopic mast vehicle 70"), based on a extended Scania P 500 B. 70 Meters maxium working hight, 40 Tons heavy machine. 12.5 Meters long. A beautifuly beast, 1.9 Million Euros worth. Welcome to Hamburg.

11:00 This vehicle is manufactured for tunnel fires and in Germany the vehicles are mainly used by Rosenbauer.

2:40 it's the New Scania 70 Meters Public Firedepartment Truck from Hamburg with a Bronto Skylift F 70 RPX, it is 12.5 Meters long and has a weight of 40 tons. 4:00 it a Company Firetruck from RWE (German multinational energy company) , also a Scania but older cabin (Scania P420 10×4*6 HHA Chassie) with a Bronto Skylift GMB F90 HLA (High Level Articulated) ... it is 15.6 Meters long and has a weight of 52 tons Costs of first, around 1.9 Million Euro and the second around 2.5 Million Euro

Hi, the Truck at 3:40 called TMF 70 (Teleskopmastfahrzeug 70 Meter(230 feet)). It based on Scania P500B and cost rundabout 1,9 Million Euros

90 meter = 295,275591 fod ... The Ram ProMaster is an old Fiat Ducato platform

The TM90 (90m) from RWE in the 3nd clip was "overturned" once in 2011. Back then you drove too fast and the thing lay on its side...🤭 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-a0ON30_WGGw.html The TMF 70 (Hamburg Professional fire department, sometimes not a factory fire department) in the 2nd clip is very new - In operation for three weeks....

hello ian, Great reacting video that you filmed of the German special fire brigade vehicles. Information about the turbo fire engine from the chemical company: BASF from Ludwigshafen. Yes, the vehicle is unique. But BASF has a good reason for ordering and operating such a special vehicle. The vehicle ultimately costs 1.7 million US dollars. But BASF has learned from past mistakes. Similar to Beirut, there was also an ammonium sulfate saltpeter explosion at BASF/Ludwigshafen on September 21, 1921. HOWEVER, four times bigger. The crater was 19 m deep, 125 m long and 90 m wide 521 people died immediately, 1,952 were injured and 7,000 were homeless. The pressure wave could still be felt for 100 KM. In 2016 there was another accident in which five people died and 28 others were injured. I think that explains this vehicle.

6:44: they can sway A LOT. Even experienced operators say that they do not really get used to it and everytime get a weird feeling in their stomach when it sways a few tenths of centimeters (let's say a foot). But don't let the height alone fool you: it usually is more about the maximum distance these things can reach out, as 90 meters (about 270 feet) is nice, but it's useless if you can only go straight up. But even reaching out from the center of the turntable the mast is mounted on can get to impressive distances. There's a video from a Dutch rental company that has a bucket-crane for rent that can go up 64 meters (about 190 feet) but can reach something like 25 meters outwards and still hold 3 people and tools in the platform at the end of the boom. At some point, the guy demonstrating the thing points the camera along the boom, which shows mad bending under the weight.

The first clip was from "Chempark" in Leverkusen its a huge spacial fire brigade on a chemical factory ground

Some information It has to be said that for the “Chempark Leverkusen factory fire brigade” money is relatively irrelevant! Hamburg TMF 70: said to weigh 40 tons and cost €1,900,000! TM 90 of the WF RWE power plant in Neurath: 90 meter working height, 52 tons total mass, 15.60 meter length of the vehicle WF EVONIK ALF: Yes, there are two turbines! The turbo extinguisher or aerosol extinguisher is designed to knock down toxic gases or vapors, to cool tunnels, to extinguish chemical or oil fires (oil drilling rigs in Iraq were extinguished in this way) fires, thanks to its fine droplet formation, which can be extinguished with one liter of water You can wet an entire football field, the water is so fine. But you can also use it to create foam. But you have to say that money hardly plays a role for EWR and EVONIK If you have any more questions, feel free to ask

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Mannheim Germany is home of the BASF and Bayer chemical refineries. They likely have these unique type of fire trucks even by German standards. Kind of like the crazy hardware the Pasadena,/Houston Texas Fire Department has.

Hey, guys! I noticed several of those MAN had probably the hydraulic front axel, making them 4x4 or 6x4 👍 The ones with "higher ride height". I've been watching a lot from US over the last couple of three years on youtube. I cannot recall seeing any US truck having anything but convensional rolling front axel, unless it's a crazy buildt up thing. I haven't been looking too much into this hydraulic system, but the first MAN truck I saw with this and asked the owner (not just a hired driver) he said it was hydraulic and was working up to 30km/h. 👌Comments?

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The turbine would be great for the large gardens or the vineyard. I use the general/rude conversion of 3ft per meter to get some kind of idea so 90m would be 270ft when it's actually 295 and change😊 We use "Tandem Steer" trucks for the same weight allowances in North America: picker trucks (cranes), heavy wreckers/"tow truck" with rotating cranes. , cement pumpers with 100ft plus folding snorkels, "bed trucks" in the oilfield industry etc.

90 m is about 100 yd.... and they are called cooling towers in German 😉 The pump of that special turbine fire extinguisher vehicle for HUGE industrial fires pumps 2100 gal per minute and can be operated with kerosine or petroleum, maybe even diesel bc. diesel is close to petroleum. M. Sc. of chemistry here....😉

05:25 - it's tall, true. For example 30 meters is like idk 10-story building in europe. 12:28 - I don't know German but I like the name. You would think Arnold Schwarzenegger would get out of it to knock you down ;D Never stop watching this type of videos man. I love that. Love your opinion and shock reaction. Thank you for that!

ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-C9-aTobD4y0.html The East Germans built a prototype of it in 1980. The original (Abgaslöschfahrzeug Typ W50) did not survive the German unification. Only the turbine from a Mig 17 was later installed on a new MAN vehicle and continued to be used until it was decommissioned. It is now a museum vehicle and its turbine was the first of its kind to be used for firefighting, back then in East Germany before unification.

Aren't meters and yards almost the same? Like 10% difference? Could probably use those interchangably to get a ballpark approximation. edit: You can also approximate meters converting them to building floors (levels, storeys). It's about 3m per storey. 90m would be around 30 storeys high building.

Awesome selection of gear! A particularly wild looking fire fighting vehicle over here is the SPOT-55 firefighting tank. It's built on the chassis of decommissioned T-55 battle tanks of the former Czechoslovak army. My understanding was that it was made primarily to get through tough terrain to fight forest fires. The adaptation was Czech in origin and I think they are still used in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Germany. This is not my video, but it shows the SPOT-55 off well: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KGEWBpEJRAo.htmlfeature=shared

Least twice said something being solid blue... When car in video was red... Colorblind for certain shades of red?🤔 Or just misspoke 🤔🤔

The second one is the TMF70 from the fire department Hamburg, Scania P500B Series. It weighs 40.5t and has a length of 12.5m

Some people write here that the turbo extinguisher is used at airports. I haven't found one yet, where should it be? The German Wikipedia gives the explanation and origin of the device - the petroleum industry - for fighting fires in oil wells/gas leaks. The chemical industry uses the devices for cooling, pushing down gases, extinguishing large areas and ventilating tunnels (where there are tunnels - not in chemistry). These turbo extinguishers are now also available as swap containers on trucks and as robots (hose on the back). How do others get to airports here? In Germany (certainly elsewhere) there are airfield fire engines (FLF) with an enormous speed (140 km/h - 87 MPH!!!), 15 m³ of water - 3600 gallons. These vehicles must reach all points at an airport within three minutes - otherwise their operating license will expire. ICAO specifications for fire protection at airports. The tank fire engines must carry water and extinguishing agents! Why should you use these turbine extinguishers? No own water in the tank, no speed... Yes, and there are no fire hydrants on the runways. ICAO ban!

if you want an easy (not fully correct) conversion: add 9% (or 10% to make it even easier) and you have the measurement in yards instead of meters. So the 90 meters would be 98-99 yards (98.4252 yards or 295.2756 feet would be the correct value)

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Can you comment on the Belgian emergency services, on the Porsche Wallonia rally in Belgium?

Unfortunaty it doesn´t look like this all over Germoney dear Sir!! The license plates all start with LEV ........, which means Levercusen... the home of one of the biggest biochemical Companies world wide, but also those wehicles are just 5 - 10 percent of the real fire force tbh