Due to a few shitty comments I just want to clarify a couple things. -This is a 100% volunteer brigade, the members drop whatever they are doing to attend calls whether thats; work, eating dinner with the family, socializing, playing with their kids etc. The response time is perfectly fine, if not on the fast side for a volly turnout. -The siren doesnt sound after 9pm or before 6am. It is used as a backup for sometimes unreliable pager or cell systems. Normally it will sound 10-30 seconds earlier than a page will come through.
Maybe you could answer my question. Besides the fact that it looks like this station crews exceptionally well. What happens to the bay doors if no one shows up? Will they remain open or are they automated to close after a certain point of inactivity?
@@WillyBillyBoy24 To be honest I cant really remember as I've left a couple of years ago. The doors could possibly be on a timer, but they do have a very good turnout at calls so isnt normally an issue.
Don’t listen to the idiots with the shitty comments, I’m an on call Firefighter in wales and these people don’t have a clue about being oncall firefighter. Keep up the good work 💪🏼
The first appliance is out the door in under 3 minutes. Thats impressive for a retained/volunteer station. There are some full time stations that can't manage that from some of the videos I have seen. Well done folks.
Yeah, I always wonder that with these videos you see of wholetimers. It's taking them over 5mins and you have to account for the video operator getting their phone out etc. I'm retained and our fastest time is 3mins 54secs 🤔
In my experience volunteer departments have a lot more motivation, they don’t get as many calls as a career department so for them it’s haul ass to the station and get a truck out ASAP when they get an actual call. For career departments it’s like “oh, just another medical assist” But when there is a working structure fire they will have wheels out the door 30 seconds lol. Different mentalities.
@@Ukraine2011 My timing was taken from ones the Sirens started and lights came on, nothing was sped up form then. A great turnout time that would put a lot of whole time stations to shame.
Lots of rural areas in New Zealand or towns with mostly volunteer fire brigades use those sirens. pretty cool and you can hear them a damn long way away
In CZ, we stil have siren system - not only for warning people, but for volunteer firefighters - they use different signals for these two purposes. It's a good backup system for main system of notification - normal cellphones (text messages).
Awesome job. My cousin was Volunteer F.Fighter for the Kawakawa Fire Station. I'm very proud of him. They're incredible people who drop what they're doing to help save lives & fight fires. Some of the emergencies they attend aren't the nicest. I've lived in small towns & impressed with the responses to the fire siren going off
Unless you have served in voluntary work in your community, it is impossible explain to anyone the satisfaction and fulfilment of helping your own community brings to you till you go out and do it yourself. Whether it's working in an office, picking fruit on a local farm or fighting fires - all voluntary, yet being able to meet new people in the process. I myself am a volunteer grounds man I do the work I do because the club where I work needs someone to do the job and I am happy to do it for them - voluntarily. Great video Great bunch of guys
It's been a few years for me, but my department's policy was first person in was to engineer the truck, second person was to officer the truck unless a lt. or captain came in quickly. Ranking officers were not to drive, normally. We tried to have all personnel trained to operate although if it was a working fire the truck was usually turned over to an experienced engineer. Ohio state law exempts firefighters and rescue personnel from needing CDL (commercial truck) licenses. I usually made the front seat of the truck except for he night it was 28 below zero F and I was on the tailboard! In many areas, we still have the Civil Defense/fire sirens combined.
Yes, but in places like the UK, Australia and New Zealand you have to be trained in emergency response driving because we don’t like just giving people the keys. We care about the public on the roads, and our crews. Response driving is a skill that needs to be learned correctly.
@@CymruEmergencyResponder The comment says nothing about not being trained for emergency vehicle operation, just that in that state (as with some others) you don't need a CDL (commercial drivers license) to drive a fire department vehicle. It can be very expensive to receive and maintain a CDL and is not practical for small call / volunteer departments. The department I was on for 17 years required extensive classroom and road training before anyone was cleared to drive. Also you were required to be fully trained to operate any pump or other equipment on the vehicle before driving it. Please try to understand the comment before posting a nasty response, we're all on the same team.
Our area, the first driver, drives, which is almost always the Lt. The next officer in is the vehicle officer, unless either a chief shows up, or no other officer shows up, then the most qualified black hat moves up. We are also exempt from CDL requirements on emergency response (so technically getting fuel or service requires a driver with a CDL, of which I am the only one). In reality, if we go through the emergency response training (in all reality just the yard portion of a motor vehicle license test) and the Chief allows, we become apparatus operators. However to drive on response calls, we need pump operations, and in the case of our Quint, aerial operations.
That's a great response time, especially by a volunteer company. The standard in our community is 5 minutes from being toned by dispatch. We use a combination air-raid siren and phone/computer app in our case.
Mike Young we are a rural vol. department with about 34 members now, about 22-25 show up to every call and 15-20 are airpack ready. I wouldn’t say we’re a dying breed, we just need to advertise to the youth better
My dept which is in rural northeastern pa has maybe 10 active members which is super low but we get the job done 99% of the time we are out the door within 5 minutes of dispatch at most
Jakob Rodoski what do you get for mutual aid/auto aid? We’re usually the big group that shows up to calls, but we can always count on a full staffed, airpack ready ladder from the town just south of us on every call, and 1-2 full staffed airpack ready engines from the town just east of us, plus tenders (tankers) from surrounding townships if we need to pull from lakes and other static sources and shuttle water to scene, I’m interested to know your side of things
@@thegaminglegends213 we have good mutual aid depts the funny thing is we are almost always running ambulance calls for one of the other depts which they have multiple medical people but a bunch of issues getting people to want to show up
Nice response time you got there. Good job mates. Here in Finland as we actually owned the vfd-station as a private association, we spent a lot of our free time in station. Someone was repairing his car in one of the garages, some people were in sauna, some just eating takeaway food and watching movies. In many cases we responded immediately because station was a social place for us to hang out. First attackers pretty much responded immediately, while the next guys coming in took the tanker if extra water was needed. For bigger fire the 8-seater transporter was collecting extra men from station and switching men in shifts. Good times and awesome people. Asthma stopped my career there because doctor did not let me do "smoke diving" as we call it. Meaning going into burning house with airtanks.
Awesome response time for the first engine! I usually get to open the doors of our station while the third wail of the siren is still going. And I live across the street. Interesting thing is, you have the same siren signal as we have in Germany. Keep up the great service and always return safely from your calls!
People Not realizing that the 2nd Truck got attached Later on via Radio and Not Pager... Carterton 622 got attached for a Air-Ambulance landing. So it's Not extreme urgent. And given the fact that 622 was able to Go shortly after the 2nd Turnout, it seems perfectly fine. Some people should Just Not comment. Really.
We use lighter horns in my dept (1 for each substation) but we also have the holy-shit-is-going-down air raid horn for special events. Some neighboring depts use that kind of horn full time.
I was a vol. for many years. Done first-response medical, drove, jaws, etc. I'm a full time medic now. I never regreted being a vol.. If it wasn't for volunteering, I wouldn't be what I am today.
Absolutely love this video, how many guys and gals have their license now for the engine?, used to be a volly at West Melton back in early 90's , loved it, can't any more as a tetraplegic, but still get a buzz watching these video's and knowing how they drop everything whenever and wherever to help people, thank goodness for local brigades
6:40 needing a driver. Yeah, that was always the toughest part when I would voluntarily sit out the 1st truck so I knew we could get the second engine or tanker rolling as a driver.
One of us (voluntary fd) lived in the middle of historic old woodtown we have, that tend to have fire breaking loose pretty often. My buddy actually held his gear back home so he was first to respond in the woodtown... by foot. He had already evacuated people and assessed the situation before we came in to the scene with vehicles. On the way we already knew where to park the trucks and where to pull hoses. It was like, at the blink of an eye everybody was all over the place doing exactly right things because of intel we already had on the way.
Our volunteer department requires all firefighter to get their DZ-in Canada within 1 year of joining. 1st firefighters to the hall get in & respond; once all trucks have cleared the hall, everyone else drive their own vehicles to the scene. We have very quick responses. & we are on a minitor VI pager & whosresponding.com app.
@@timothyj.barron9525 The short time I officered a volly department some jackwagon councilor tried to pass legislation that had a requirement that first responding truck be out of the doors within 4 minutes then 7 minutes for secondary etc then everyone else drives their POV. fascinating enough, when the subject of insurance for all POV's came up it never reached the floor.
I love hearing the siren go off ya know the girls and lads are gearing up, as my mum and hubby have volunteered for 11yrs to the fire service and now retired life members all volunteers in any of Nz services I salute u for your service to our communities
i miss the old siren at our station we have pagers now , we are also volunteer brigade , im like the poor guy running in at 3.40 to see the truck rolling out with a full crew
This is not the air raid ww2 signal. This is a fire tsunami signal in NZ although the old tsunami sirens are being phased out they will still use this signal on most of the stations but some do sound the air raid signal aswell. We use this same exact tone for chemical and flood alerts.
Let's be honest. This is really cool and all but... I feel really bad for the people who just moved into this town and didn't know that on each call at the volunteer station, a tornado siren would go off.
I know you commented on this ages ago but the funny thing is that this isn't a town, it's a city called Hamilton in New Zealand which is one of the main cities in the North Island, all towns and cities in New Zealand have these stations posted around the place, so unless you aren't from New Zealand an Air Raid siren normally just means FD alarm, also we don't have tornado sirens anywhere in the country.
stupid question! i see 3 bays.. and only the 2nd and 3rd opened automatically. Does that have to do with the type of signal sent for Equipment needed? or is it just open up those two all the time?
First appliances out in ~3 minutes Second out in about ~9 minutes Our auxiliary firefighters (like a volunteer, but paid) are 5 - 10 minutes in good areas, impressive response time.
3 minutes?? You're shitting me? A minute is too long. It's litterally going down the fire pole and putting on boots, fire suits and helmet and then jumping into the car...
Looking at the video it seems there were 2 different calls look at time stamp 5:40 where it says it gets attached to call. They are able to crew all but the driver, the driver gets in around 7:00 and the truck is away by about timestamp 8:24. So that's around a 3 min response time as well.
We call our aux firefighters retained in NSW - No air raid sirens used to summon them anymore sadly - although a lot seem to physically remain on the station’s/shed’s.
Yh. Alarm system is hooked up to the lights usually. Saves time having to find the light switch. Makes it safer as you're usually running to the rig. And on a night shift it helps wake you up quicker if youre sleeping. Not many will sleep through sudden bright lights ans alarms
I'm usually the first to the station. Doors and engines first. Then lights and my own gear. We do well for a town of less than 250. Not often under strength
@@EnjoyFirefighting We are a little two truck brigade that's pretty isolated. A small worm up time for the trucks makes them run that much better. Better running truck means we are out the door that much faster. Out the door is more Important than me being geared up. Although I've had to gear up in transit befor. Not in the rules but what you have to do to get it it done
@@hairy-dairyman does that one or two minutes make such a big difference? What kind of apparatus do you have? I don't feel much of a difference at my EMS station, even if we start off with a cold engine and directly get onto the highway
@@EnjoyFirefighting we have a 24 year old pumper tanker (an apliance that has attributes of a tanker and an urban pumper. Ours also has hazmat gear onboard) and a 26 year old tanker (just bushfires but we make it do more). A little heat really helps as they are diesel trucks. They run a little rough on start up.
To get a really great Volunteer Fire Deptment Siren you need to go FarmVille,Virginia because the siren sits on top of the FarmVille Police Station and it is heard all over the whole town? I should know I grew up in FarmVille,Va.
Garry Aydon i first thought it was just a training Cuz then the alarm just turns on but damn that station is a bad station they should visit my station in sweden we respond as fast as the alarm turns on even if its a training or false alarm
Very cool guys! I am a volunteer firefighter in Poland too and I am jealous about Your fire dept. building and vehicles! I have a question who is responsible for funding new cars, tools etc.? Is this local government? Do You receive any grant from central/federal authority? Are You using Holmatro hydraulic tools? What's the capacity of water tanker? :D Thank You for answers! :)
The NZ Government funds FENZ (Fire and Emergency New Zealand), most vehicles are funded by FENZ but some brigades or communities will fund a van or ute, in rare cases an appliance. I believe that tanker holds 15,000L
First class response guys and in excellent time for a VFB. New Zealand I believe. Two things really stand out... It cant possibly the US because A} All the guys were Running and B} None of them were Fat
@@CymruEmergencyResponder here aswell but my point is that it is a requirement for all not just selected drivers both military as well as civilian the difference is for civilian you only require code 10(UK code 2) but military each driver is required to hold advanced driving certificates and individual licenses for each type of emergency vehicle
Did the drive eventually turn up for the second truck or did somebody just jump in and drive. Only asking because it looked as if they struggled to find first gear
arnold jayeola that actually makes zero sense, because if they were going to fail they would fail regardless. They also have pull chain backup manual operation for that scenario. Secondly I know of numerous thefts from firehouses, and even some crooks who have called in MFA's to have to doors activate and get a 60 second looting spree on. You live in dreamland..
arnold jayeola mate you need to stop commenting when you have no idea what you are saying.. This is a Vol. Fire Company, it is vacant unless there is a call and people respond. Hence the risk associated with automatic doors when the building is unstaffed. There is no time delay to activate the doors upon arrival as whils they open, you are donning your gear. Please don't get into the comments sandbox when you don't understand or know the subject matter, you just make a fool of yourself mate.
Most of them aren't actually.....the siren is a similar type of siren, but various companies still manufacturer them to this day. Tawa Fire Station, for example has a siren just like this one, but it's actually brand new.
For non maned paid call fire station, that response time was quick 👍 Not sure what the firefighters are called there. Ours are called paid-call volunteer firefighters.
EnjoyFirefighting - International Emergency Response Videos my mistake I went off of very old statistics 70 percent of all firefighters in the US are volunteers crazy how time changes things and more firefighters are getting paid to do it.
Was a volunteer firey for 20 years generally a few minutes after pager was activated first arriving fire fighter to the station would activate station siren if no one else rocked up
Where I am, you have too complete a drivers course that goes for a week. In that you learn defensive driving, operating in wet conditions responding through traffic lights and all other good stuff, also as driver you get taught the pumps for water because they are quite challenging too control the more lines that get connected too the truck.
Merced Videos not exactly, in this certain jurisdiction, the page for the volunteer’s pagers is linked directly to the house siren, doors, and lights, it proves very useful in needing to get out in a hurry, however, it can also be a hindrance when the dispatcher sends a tone test and the whole process happens
Shame on people who complain over anything about this guys,they are not on the way in 90 seconds after the alarm,but other then that we should by very grateful for them,and the job they are doing,whenever we might need them :) :) :)
