BVFD Ladder 3 Responding 10/15/16, (Ride Along) 

Man I live in the Caribbean we have sun, sand and the beautiful sea but when I see bit and piece of America in movies, shows, RU-vid videos I am truly envious Americans have a truly majestic country, imagine growing up in a small town with a mountain like that in your back yard those long winding country roads perfect for Sunday drive after church camping out with the family and don't talk about Winter the snow I never being to the US but if I did would rather a small quiet sleepy town with a great view and open fields like this

It's in Buchanan, VA, which is near Roanoke, VA., on US-11; the James River goes through town. The mountain is NW of Buchanan, and North of where I-81 crosses the James River. While it doesn't seem to have a name in itself, Appalachian mountains are usually part of long ridges, and those ridges may have names. It might be called Greyledge, though - there's a road and a community near there called that - but I don't know for sure.

In washington state we have mountan views like this everywhere and they are better. You walk out of Walmart and it's nothing but mountains in the distance

Volunteer?

Yes

Charles Shade II 😂😂

You know how emergency drives in germany? ... Really stupid. They don't use the free space at the right. They allways use the left space of the road.. really stupid. Reason they say is:"Tow truck isn't allowed to drive on the right lane, so emergency drives on left, so that the tow truck has space to get to the crash... srsly... stupid.

Nape Lazam Again nonsens talk! Please - stop drink and post on RU-vid!

Ground Wave Ignore them. They're ranting about something unrelated.

Ground Wave This idot is drunken or only a internet troll. I think second - after my answer he never post again.

Thank you very much I'll pass the word along. Y'all be safe.

Joseph Fiore Yeah this man can drive his ass off

@@tdgco3 OBEY!!

Welcome to America where half the vehicles on the road are heavy trucks

David Schoenmann I agree, I've seen videos where people don't even move when there right behind them....

David Schoenmann welcome to America where some of us could give less of a crap saving a strangers life.

That is America for you. The citizens dont give a shit about our brave firefighters police or emts at all. We are a selfish people here and need an eye opening. My sister is a paramedic and she puts herself in danger every time she responds. I make it an effort to make way for the ones who keep us alive.

Like who and when? On this video I see hardly any if any at all that do not move instantly for it.

from a french guys this is a pretty good respond by citizens cars :) in France if we had this we were happy hahaha

Why?

mattrules24 “look at this fucking idiot” *as the drop top flys by*

@@mattrules24 they prolly cussed there heads off at the guy who passed them, you never pass an emergency vehicle

Probably on delivery

you caught me haha

Caught in action. I myself am a Volunteer firefighter based out of Lock Haven, PA. I appreciate all of the effort that goes into these videos. Thank you for your service. God Bless.

You know how emergency drives in germany? ... Really stupid. They don't use the free space at the right. They allways use the left space of the road.. really stupid. Reason they say is:"Tow truck isn't allowed to drive on the right lane, so emergency drives on left, so that the tow truck has space to get to the crash... srsly... stupid.

@@bestboy007 dude I'm scrolling through these comments and, do you just have that comment on a text document and just copy paste that shit everywhere? "Here in Germany..." Woah, wowsers people do things differently in different countries. Guess what America does better than Germany, not starting World Wars.

@@MommyKhaos But yet you still end up getting involved in them..

United States interstate standards are for a 9-foot shoulder the Main travel lanes are 12 foot, so it is smaller but still big enough.

Typical of a volunteer unit. There is a bare minimum crew to drive the truck the rest are at work when a call goes so they drive a personal vehicle to the scene or get picked up on the way. Problem With these type of Departments is no budget for a full time crew. But Volunteer Departments are older then History.

VOLUNTEERS.

@@chrisowen2925 my departments policy is the truck can leave if there's a captain, or a Lt. With at least two FF. Or if it's been more than 5 minutes from the initial tone then who ever there goes. But once a truck is rolling they do not stop to pick people up unless still in the apron. Other than that guys show up on scene unless it's a highway.

@@extraslayar4585 That is the DEFINITION of a volunteer. If the department had full-time staff then it would not be a volunteer house. In the Big City, there are typically 3 engines and a bus in the house. Men / Woman, are there to staff the apparatus 24/7/365. They even have sleeping bunks and a kitchen in the house. Volunteers sleep at home and have a real job get calls and if they can make it to the house jump on the truck or get picked up en route. I know a friend that is a captain for a volunteer department in Tool Tx population 150. Obviously, they do not have a full staff department just sitting waiting for a fire or other accident. Many times they will have one person very close to the Engine since you need that apparatus at every scene. If you can't make it to the house you have to go to the scene.

@@chrisowen2925 YEa no i was just saying we arnt allowed to pick up guys on the way like that to much liability and delays response when those guys getting picked up couldve already been on scene and preparing for the tools.

When you start a truck with empty air tanks you have to wait for it to have enough air pressure before it can even release the brakes. The tanks are constantly being refilled while the truck is running. The trucks hold enough air that it doesn't run out of air. I assume if one continuously pressed the brakes the air would run out and then you'd have to wait again. Hope that answered the question.

thank you.

thank you.

VA

Typical of Rural areas. Volunteer means there is a skeleton crew in the Station the others either drive a personal truck to the scene or get picked up on the way. Areas like this do not have the budget to have a full time Fire Department so many of them do this for fun and hobby with out pay or very little.

I grew up in a town just on the other side of those mountains. The Blue Ridge Parkway runs along the top.

AGREED

So first BVFD stands for Buchanan volunteer fire department. Buchanan is located in the state of Virginia on the west side of the state

ethan mcguire Virginia

Virginia

Ida Floyd You think it’s realistic to have a fire dept on ever block corner?

It could be worse, I lived in a remote section of Idaho and it was 45 minutes for a police response, firemen or paramedics were typically an hour away. Welcome to the wonderful world of living in rural areas, it’s not ridiculous by any means. Depending on where you live you could be a farmer, sheriff, paramedic and firefighter all in the same day... you might need to know how to operate a road grader and snow plow too!

yes it was. lol

yes it was. lol

is it going to a local company ?

I'm not sure, it didn't have any lettering on it.

They need to keep them available in case of another emergency

More like, its not in service and is being delivered.

They say it's a brand new E-ONE. One of rescue 4's Trucks

@@justanotheraviator2357 they're talking about two different things. The new E1 was the truck in the left lane, it appeared to have no markings other than the rear chevrons though admittedly hard to see, it is likely being delivered to some department somewhere, or its even a demo truck.. The "five two or five three, that is one of rescue fours" is the vehicle that's behind them following them to the scene, that they later say they left in the dust when they arrived on scene.

Td Hooper probably 6

IDK, but our Sutphen SPH100 can do 90+ on the HW.

They picked up other volunteer firefighters and the other truck is not in their district so they weren't dispatched probably.

They were picking up other volunteer firefighters and the truck in the highway was being delivered to a department and was not in service yet.

baileyboy125 no it is a foot pedal that the driver or passenger side can control. Look up a federal q siren

I can't speak for this particular fire department but a lot of fire departments in rural areas such as this in Virginia have the rescue tools on the ladder truck.

that's exactly what i was thinking ahaha

lotecatanning that is a q2b I think and one of the electric sirens like hi-lo yelp phaser

Nah its a Code 3, its American.

@@Blasterbrowngaming There are used all over the world.

@@alexfrn24 Sure, but Code 3 is an American Company

Manpower and usually heavy tools needed for extraction of trapped victims