I actually looked it up after seeing similar videos. In Arkansas it is a $400 fine for Failure to Yield to an Emergency Vehicle that has flashing warning lights in red and/or blue and is sounding a siren. This is on top of any other fines or prison time for damage and injuries caused by reckless driving by drivers that think they are more important than a Rescue Truck trying to get to a scene to save lives.
You got THAT right! Arguing in RU-vid videos is not worth the trouble, and it's definitely one of the greatest wastes of time mankind has ever invented.
Zack, I truly hope you weren't told that precious bit of information by another firefighter. Any pressurized vehicle parts are subject to "exploding" and "launching" from the vehicle. I have witnessed it on more than one occasion while working at a fire academy where we typically burn at least 6-7 cars for each recruit class. There are also documented incidents and articles available to support this fact as well. Please do not relay that type of false information to our brother firefighters. It may end up getting someone hurt or killed, It might even be one of your best friends in the station that pays the price. Operating in front of any burning vehicle is a bad idea. As mentioned earlier, use your saws, hydraulics, or if you only have hand tools, pry the corner of the hood up along the fender. Any old school Porta Power duck bills laying around the station tool rooms? They work perfectly!
Exactly! Zack needs to do his research because cars, especially from the 1970's through the 1990's had the shock absorbing bumpers. There are plenty of videos out there showing what happens. There are many articles published when firefighters thought a tire exploded and found the bumper laying 25 feet down the road. There is a great video out there (I say great in terms of learning not because the firefighter got hurt) of a bumper taking down a firefighter who was standing in its path. So Zack, as was said before, if you don't know, don't say anything. It is not a myth it is real and that is why firefighters are taught how to approach a vehicle.
Brothers, I would hate to respond to an emergency in your area. The traffic where I am at does not even come close to what you guys have to deal with. Good response and God Bless.
that loud one that runs intermitentyl is what we refer to as a "federal" siren, I'm pretty sure because it's manufactured by the Federal Siren Company. Uses air pressure to spin a wheel of blades that creates the sound. I've never used one like they do in this vid, I prefer to give it one big run up when approaching an intersection. The increasing pitch is what catches peoples attention. But I'm in a very rural town, no freeways like these guys have got. Good job by all.
Amazing, over in America they dont even close the roads. Cars passing metres away. In the UK it would have been closed for bloody hours, then opened to one lane while its cleaned up causing no end of problems.
@NYPD265 We have loads of em, there's tons of hybrids on the roads in NY/Northeast but no Quiktrips. We were one of the few places in the US where gas hit and surpassed $4 a gallon.
They should have a bunch of law enforcement vehicles follow "lights & sirens" vehicles so that they can cite drivers who don't pull over and stop for emergency vehicles. Any state could make a lot of money just from these infractions. Remember: fire/paramedic units could be going to help your family member.
@talfacprez It actually doesnt matter if an emergency vehicle hits a civilians car, its automatically the civilians fault, its called "not yielding to emergency vehicles"
I would've set a buffer zone for traffic control but luckily no one hit any of the emergency responders. Dangerous zone to put out a car fire even if that one lane was cordon off. Good job gents
@NYPD265 Yes it does matter. If you're in an emergency with lights and sirens blaring, run a red light without slowing or stopping to ensure it's clear and see what happens to the driver of the emergency vehicle...
same but u could be a firefighter explorer who does the same as a firefighter but isn't rly one u can go around your town or city to see if y'all have one and u have to be between the age of 14-18
They should make a $2,500 fine and a one year suspension of driving privileges mandatory for failure to yield to an emergency vehicle. Unreal what I saw in this video with some drivers.
They did just fine. The people who caused the problems went left instead of right like you're supposed too. The only thing I'd do different is to block more lanes.
That speed you are referring to is the speed of sound, I don't think he was traveling at or near 340 m/s. Also how would have driven on the left side when entering the highway? You can clearly see that there are 2 merge lanes, a concrete median, and then the highway he would have to cross over to travel on the left hand side. The driver had no other option but to drive up the right shoulder till he got closer to the accident. When off the highway he was driving int he left/median, looked fine.
It's called a powercall tone on some siren systems, and on others, it's the warble tone. Are there other names used by other manufacturers? I don't know, lol
they do explode if heated enough. Thats why you approach from an angle. Don tell me its false, I wish i still had the picture to prove it. Went to a car fire at a dwelling, it was well off, when we arrived got off and got the line charged and began to approach we heard an explosion, thinking it was just a tire we went about our job til some one came out from a neighbors house saying something came thru the wall. On investigation we found a bumber shock in thier living room and hole in bumber.
@mrasmussen360 : not all states have the same laws when on the open road or freeway. where I live, a siren used on the freeway or open highway is not legal.
the hood latch is connected to the handle by a cord and more times then not if the car is on fine the cord will snap thats why they didnt do it like that
I'm convinced in Maryland all it takes to get a driver's license is to fish it out from the bottom of a Cracker Jack box...that's about as nicely as I can put it. When it comes to handling any type of emergency vehicle approaching them, they're stubborn idiots. Many videos on here and hundreds of hours of my own personal responses can attest to this fact. If you're from MD and you can honestly say you're not a horrible driver like most are, this doesn't apply to you.
huh... well at least in the state of Kansas, if you don't move for emergency vehicles its a tremendous fine, accompanied with a fine of obstruction of an emergency vehicle.
You wonder WTF in wrong with some people.Back when I worked for the CDF our unit, on the way to a call with lights and siren came up behind a camper doing about 35 mph. We could not get around him and he would not speed up, move over or get out of the way. We had to crawl along for at least a mile until we could pass. There wasn't a chance he couldn't hear or see us. My stomach churns just to think of it. Inex-fucking-plicable.
@narutoandavatarrocks Quick Trip, i wasnt sure if u had em up there. But down here is GA right now its $3.17, quick trip is the cheapest place u can buy it, im buying a prius! lol
I hate the sound of the sirens just because I'm used to hearin different ones but love the video but how come some of the fire fighters were just standing around doing nothing?
my only question/comment for this video... Why the hell are you some of them guys walking up to the car in the bumbers path?! if that bumber had the bumber shocks and they blew ( and having fire up front really ups the odds) the two or three on the car side would have been taken out from the knees down. would have been transporting three ff'2 to er for leg injuries of anything from dislocated knee cap up to amputation
