It's not uncommon for depts to have a "siren curfew" where between certain hours they don't run the siren unless there's something like an intersection or traffic.
You would think they could run the tiller from the one bay over so the poor buggers don't have to turn so hard. Put the battalion there, then you still have quick access to the more frequent appliances like the engine and the medic.
Nice catch (though I gotta say I never understood why some departments have their Ladders not numbered the same as their stations, like this, Station 32 woth E 32, but L11? Where I work the Engine and Ladder is always the same number as the station, so if we had a Ladder in Station 32 it would be L32)
Usually they might have originated at another station. Or it has a standalone number because it may be called to another station and to avoid confusion, it has a unique number not tied to a house.
I don’t get why American fire trucks only have red lights, red is so hard to see on its own in the day time. Blue really stands out a hell of a lot more
Noted a slight error in the description. Medic 32 is listed at this station, but the Medic unit on duty is Medic 1. Could this be that Medic 32 was inactive and off-station at the time, so Medic 1 was used as a Standby unit?
Medic One is some brand name or something, not the name of the actual apparatus number, all Seattle Fire medics say Medic One. I am not sure exactly what Medic One is but I know it's not a Seattle Fire unit number on this rig. I think another Seattle fire buff may know the answer, since he is from Seattle and I am not. His channel name is lucaslaughing.
@@davidosborne5019 You bet! I don't think it's necessarily a brand name, but it's like its own company or something. All I know is that all Seattle Fire medic and aid units have Medic One on it and it's not the apparatus number lol.
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@@martinphilip1549 Most of the filming was actually done at a similar replica at a studio in LA, however some shots such as overhead and transitions were filmed at Seattle Fire Station 20 so as not to interfere with the day-to-day operations of the real Seattle Fire station
why not? Typical modern design at many such functional buildings; Our new main EMS station has a glass wall as well, but not to the side but to the front; Lookds pretty nice
@@Brian-gw6di all they can see is the vehicle hall at our new station; They can't see the common room, kitchen, bedrooms, offices, storage, showers, toilets, changing room or the garage for the crew members' private cars; Most of the station life is taking place on the 1st floor, with plain normal windows and walls. I don't really care that pedestrians can watch when we do our routine checks at the beginning of the shift (well actually they can only watch us walking to the unit), or when we clean the units or the vehicle hall
Question from an Australian, why don’t your (American) Fire Brigade turn out in convoy, have noticed it on quite a few videos? Always trying to fight traffic as individuals rather than as a pack.
I mean, they just kinda go en route as they're ready to go. Doesn't really make a lot of sense to wait until everybody is ready. The more time it takes the first unit to arrive on scene, the more time that fire has to spread and grow, or in the case of a medical emergency, the more time the patient's condition has to get worse. Commonly in my fire department, a battalion can be ready up to 2 minutes before an engine, depending on the call type and how fast the crews are. For Richland Fire Department, an MVA with BC 171 and E1711...Battalion Chief 171, or BC 171 as you will see it titled as in my videos, is commonly ready to respond much earlier than Engine 1711 (E1711) is, because the BC only puts on a vest and then goes, where E1711 has to suit up in full turnouts, so it makes no sense for BC 171 to wait an additional up to 2 minutes while E1711 is suiting up. just so they can handle the traffic at the same time, at least to me it doesn't.
@@SEWashingtonEmergencyBuff OK, thanks, that explains it. I suppose Australia Fire Brigade don't go out on every medical call and the Ambulance service is run on its own. They do do some First Aid if they are first on scene and Ambo is not there yet, or special services where Ambo's need help like extra people to carry someone. We also have a volunteer service who do cliff rescue etc as it is rare.
@@SEWashingtonEmergencyBuff we also handle it the way Greg mentioned it; You might see e.g. a chief speeding a bit ahead, but the rest of primary apparatus would respond together in a convoy then; Instead of each unit fighting its own way through traffic, and traffic pulling over multiple times, traffic pulls over only once and the units can get through pretty easily; Average speed for the large fire apparatus is at 40 mph in city traffic for us here; Not much delay in response times; Only e.g. special operations apparatus which might take some more minutes to prepare at the station, they won't run in the convoy but follow some minutes later. At many stations you see convoys of 5 to 6 units when dispatched to a fire call (like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zVYhxjG66bQ.html ); Full house responses are extremly rare in the cities due to the size of stations; Some months ago I was able to film my 3rd full house response but it turned out to be a false alarm; The other two full house responses were to a fire and rescue drill and to a roof truss fire
@@EnjoyFirefighting yeah see that doesn’t make a whole lot of sense to me. “Not much delay” isn’t no delay. It’s just kinda stupid really, but that’s just my opinion!
