Hello, I am a German young Fire fighter and its nice to see the difference between German and American engines. It's very interesting for me. Thanks for the video
Question for ya'll, do all your engine's carry similar equipment, like wildland and high rise equipment, or does each company decide what equipment is needed for their district? Like Engine 32 vs Engine 40 seeing as their districts are very different. Love the videos and keep up the good work!
1) do your hydrants operate backwards? right to open and left to close, or did the video get mirrored some how? 2) the little switches on the shelves below the crosslays, is that a safety to prevent charging with the door closed? 3) I like the compartment fold down into a step on the rear!
I saw you used an conector that looked like german A conenctor on your large diameter Hose, is it actully a german conector or only somthing simmelar? How much water do your Nozels put out?
It's a Storz adapter/connection, many departments use this connection for Large Diameter Hose (supply line), as well as some Fire Department Connections, Dry Hydrants, and normal hydrants. 1.75" handlines typically put out around 150 GPM, 2.5" handlines typically put out anywhere from 250-325 GPM.
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO I love that advanced degrees are an important part of the promotion process for SMFR. My organization is way behind the curve, but we're slowly making advanced degrees a requirement for promotion.
@@whiplashfirephotography8348 Every station here is actually its own department It's totally different The only department that has the same system as you do are the RSB (Regimento Sapadores de Bombeiros), in which they have different battalions spread out around Lisbon, Porto and Coimbra, the main Portuguese cities
@@SouthMetroFireRescuePIO okay. Yall must have some revenue coming in if yall can afford that. Our department has 8 engines, 2 aerials, 5 medic, and a rescue running 22000 calls a year roughly in the entire city. They can rarely have one additional guy on our rescue, let alone 4 guys on every apparatus.
Ethan Regan My city has 3 Engines 3 Ladders and a Rescue (which is cross staffed by the Ladder crew) and they barely have 4 people to a truck it’s lucky if they do
So you only run 3 on the engine? Here in uk not allowed to run with no less than 4 firefighters for safety and so not all one 1 person to do all the work
I will say (not a firefighter) British fire engines/trucks have an open back cab 3/4 seats and on the back of the driver/passenger seat that’s where so equipment is
