breckandy some city's used hearses as ambulances, as where i live here in Memphis they used hearses and decorated that for Memphis. Look it up on flicker "memphis fire department vehicles" we even had some ward lafrances like what they used on emergency! Its so cool to live here but crime rate is horrendous. It's even beat Chicago at one time! Lucky that died down over the past few years...
Loving that beautiful old Cadillac at 1:40. Do you know anything about the rotating lights mounted on the grille of the trucks at 6:55 and 9:40? I don't think I've seen anything like that before this video.
The old ambulance could have had the electronic siren from as far back as then late Sixties or early Seventies, whenever it was made. If you listen carefully, the electronic siren even sounds like it would be from that time.
what looked like a drag race between two units about to begin, ended up looking like the yellow engine 53 chickened out. then the blue unit left as well. 8:30.
During the parade I have every year, a lot of semi trucks are ulitized so that people can use their flat bed trailers to put on them whatever they want to show off during the parade and I still remember during one parade, alot of these drivers like to sound off their horns while they go down the parade route but one time, when the driver sounded his horn it actually STUCK and he could get it to shut off, so here was this semi truck going down the whole parade rout at the very slow speed that they Normally do with his horn(s) just blaring away, Man I'll tell ya right now, what a nunsenise that was hearing that the whole parade route, could you imagain one of these fire trucks doing the same thing, sounding the siren at different intervalls when all of a sudden the siren actually stuck and they couldn't do anything to shut their off????LOL
I like that Superior/Cadillac ambulance 1:26 - 1:57. The mechanical Q siren sounds okay, but I hate that screamy high-pitched 1970s Federal electronic siren.
Fire police is police for fire departments. They direct traffic so the firefighters can actually do their job instead of directing traffic themselves. My fire department (nothampton pa) has fire police.
In my area, they started out with the same branch as the police. The regular police couldn't handle all the traffic so they decided to gather a police for the fire department. Check out my fire police unit at northamptonfire42.com/firepolice.php. They are the only unit to have both red and blue lights.
2:00 or so, I have never heard of a combination fire/police vehicle before, but will admit, I am going to take a guess here and say that's a Nissan Titan, am I correct? Now if you can for me please, what excatley is this person's job as both a Fire member and a police member?????
A fire police officer, is a member of the fire department that is utilized for traffic and crowd control at an emergency. Hence why they're called fire police. The vehicle was in fact a Nissan, but it was an Armada as seen by the badging on the rear lift gate of the vehicle.
